Indian Africa : : minorities of Indian-Pakistani origin in Eastern Africa / / edited by Michel Adam.

• Superior document: Africae Studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Adam, Michel, africanist,; Institut français de recherche en Afrique,
• Place / Publishing House: Dar-es-Salaam : : Mkuki Na Nyota,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English; French
• Series: Africae Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (504 p.)
• Notes: Translation of Afrique indienne.

Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have minorities from the Indian sub-continent amongst their population. The East African Indians mostly reside in the main cities, particularly Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Kampala; they can also be found in smaller urban centres and in the remotest of rural townships. They play a leading social and economic role as they work in business, manufacturing and the service industry, and make up a large proportion of the liberal professions. They are divided into multiple socio-religions communities, but united in a mutual feeling of meta-cultural identity. This book aims at painting a broad picture of the communities of Indian origin in East Africa, striving to include changes that have occurred since the end of the 1980's. The different contributions explore questions of race and citizenship, national loyalties and cosmopolitan identities, local attachment and transnational networks. Drawing upon anthropology, history, sociology and demography, Indian Africa depicts a multifaceted population and analyses how the past and the present shape their sense of belonging, their relations with others, their professional and political engagement. This book is a must-read for contemporary researchers, students, policy practitioners as well as the general reader.

Table of Contents

From the trading-post Indians to the Indian-Africans / Michel Adam -- Panorama of socio-religious communities / Michel Adam -- East African Indians: how many are they? / Laurent Nowik -- Family, family life and marriage among Indian communities in East Africa / Michel Adam -- Nizarite Ismailis in Kenya / Colette Le Cour Grandmaison -- Bohas in East Africa: orthodoxy and reformism / Nathalie Gomes -- Merchants and industrialists of Indo-Pakistani origin in Kenya : a sociological overview / Gidraph G. Wairire -- Living apart together: economic and spatial logic of Indian communities in Nakuru (Kenya) / Barbara Morovich -- Migrations and identity of Indian-Pakistani minorities in Uganda / Godfrey B. Asiimwe -- The minorities of Indian origin in Tanzania / Simeon Mesaki and Fatima G. Bapuma -- "Indians are exploiters and Africans idlers!" Identity formation and socio-economic conditions in Tanzania / Marie-Aude Fouere -- Indians and others: worlds unknown to each other-extracts of reports from the Kenyan press / Michel Adam -- Portraits and fragments of life histories in Kenya / Michel Adam.