Indians in Kenya [electronic resource] : the politics of diaspora / Sana Aiyar.
2015
DT433.545.E27 A39 2015eb
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Title
Indians in Kenya [electronic resource] : the politics of diaspora / Sana Aiyar.
Author
Aiyar, Sana, 1979- author.
ISBN
9780674425903
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2015].
Copyright
©2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (375 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Item Number
10.4159/9780674425903 doi
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DT433.545.E27 A39 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.8914/06762
Summary
"Indians in Kenya chronicles the competing, often contradictory, strategies by which the South Asian diaspora sought a political voice in Kenya from the beginning of colonial rule in the late 1890s to independence in the 1960s. Indians' intellectual, economic, and political connections with South Asia shaped their understanding of their lives in Kenya. Sana Aiyar investigates how the many strands of Indians' diasporic identity influenced Kenya's political leadership, from claiming partnership with Europeans in their mission to colonize and "civilize" East Africa to successful collaborations with Afrians to battle for racial equality, including during the Mau Mau rebellion. She also explores how the hierarchical structures of colonial governance, the material inequalities between Indians and Africans, and the racialized political discourses that flourished in both colonial and postcolonial Kenya limited the success of alliances across racial and class lines"-- Book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Harvard historical studies ; v. 185.
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Indians in Kenya.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
From the America of the Hindu to white man's country
'Civilization' in Kenya
Political homelands across the Indian Ocean
Between rebellion and suppression
Negotiating nationhood
Uhuru and exodus
Epilogue.
From the America of the Hindu to white man's country
'Civilization' in Kenya
Political homelands across the Indian Ocean
Between rebellion and suppression
Negotiating nationhood
Uhuru and exodus
Epilogue.