India in Africa, Africa in India : Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms

Hawley, John C. (John Charles), 1947- (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 0253219752
ISBN: 9780253219756
ISBN: 0253351219
ISBN: 9780253351210
ISBN: 6612263148
ISBN: 9786612263149
ISBN: 9781282263147
ISBN: 1282263145
ISBN: 0253003164
ISBN: 9780253003164
Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Language Note:	English.
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Source of Description Note:	Print version record.