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India in Africa, Africa in India

Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanisms
(Book - - 2008)
India in Africa, Africa in India


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Indiana University Press

India in Africa, Africa in India traces the longstanding interaction between these two regions, showing that the Indian Ocean world provides many examples of cultural flows that belie our understanding of globalization as a recent phenomenon. This region has had,

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Indiana University Press

India in Africa, Africa in India traces the longstanding interaction between these two regions, showing that the Indian Ocean world provides many examples of cultural flows that belie our understanding of globalization as a recent phenomenon. This region has had, and continues to have, an internal integrity that touches the lives of its citizens in their commerce, their cultural exchanges, and their concepts of each other and of themselves in the world. These connections have deep historical roots, and their dynamics are not attributable solely to the effects of European colonialism, modernity, or contemporary globalization—although these forces have left their mark. The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume come from the fields of history, literature, dance, sociology, gender studies, and religion, making this collection unique in its recreation of an entire world too seldom considered as such.



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Additional Contributors: Hawley, John C.
Imprint: Bloomington - Indiana University Press
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780253351210, 0253351219, 9780253219756, 0253219752
Language: English
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : unrecorded lives / by John C. Hawley -- Slave trades and the Indian Ocean world / by Gwyn Campbell -- India in Africa -- The indentured experience : Indian women in Colonial Natal / by Devarakshanam Govinden -- Shops and stations : rethinking power and privilege in British/Indian East Africa / by Savita Nair -- Bhangra remixes / by Anjali Gera Roy -- "Hindu" dance groups and Indophilie in Senegal : the imagination of the exotic other / by Gwenda Vander Steene -- The idea of "India" in West African vodun art and thought / by Dana Rush -- Politics and poetics of the namesake : Barlen Pyamootoo's Bénarès, Mauritius / by Thangam Ravindranathan -- Africa in India -- Siddi as mercenary or as African success story on the West Coast of India / by Rahul C. Oka and Chapurukha M. Kusimba -- Religion and empire : belief and identity among African Indians of Karnataka, South India / by Pashington Obeng -- Marriage and identity among the Sidis of Janjira and Sachin / by John McLeod -- African Indians in Bollywood : Kamal Amrohi's Razia Sultan / by Jaspal Singh -- List of contributors -- Index
Statement of responsibility: edited by John C. Hawley
Characteristics: 296 p. :,ill. ;,24 cm.
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