Indians in Kenya - Wikipedia
WEBIndians in Kenya, often known as Kenyan Asians, [1] are citizens and residents of Kenya with ancestral roots in the Indian subcontinent. Significant Indian migration to modern-day Kenya began following the creation of the British East Africa Protectorate in 1895, which had strong infrastructure links with Bombay in British India .
Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora - MIT Press
WEBMay 1, 2016 · In this authoritative and richly documented volume, Aiyar provides a history of the Indian community in Kenya throughout the eighty years of the colonial era and the subsequent decade of what she calls “uhuru [freedom] and exodus” (261).
Indians in Kenya on JSTOR
WEBSana Aiyar chronicles the strategies by which Indians sought a political voice in Kenya, from the beginning of colonial rule to independence. She examines how t...
Sana Aiyar’s ‘Indians in Kenya’ brings the politics affecting Indian ...
WEBJul 10, 2022 · Sana Aiyar’s ‘Indians in Kenya’ brings the politics affecting Indian diasporas out of the shadows. Revisiting a book that offers a new language and a more secure understanding in which long...
Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora (Harvard Historical Studies ...
WEBApr 6, 2015 · 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.
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Indians in Kenya — Harvard University Press
WEBIndians 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.
WEBIn doing so it explains how and why three seemingly separate political expressions amongst Indians in India, Indians in Kenya and Africans in Kenya were in fact intrinsically linked, Sana Aiyar is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Indians in Kenya - De Gruyter
WEBApr 6, 2015 · Sana Aiyar chronicles the strategies by which Indians sought a political voice in Kenya, from the beginning of colonial rule to independence. She examines how the strands of Indians’ diasporic identity influenced Kenya’s leadership—from partnering with Europeans to colonize East Africa, to collaborating with Africans to battle racial ...
Sana Aiyar – MIT History
WEBHer first book, Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora (Harvard University Press, 2015), explores the interracial and extraterritorial diasporic political consciousness of South Asians in Kenya from c. 1895 to 1968 who mediated constructions of racial and national identity across the Indian Ocean. Her research has appeared in several ...
Anticolonial Homelands across the Indian Ocean: The Politics of …
WEBOct 1, 2011 · The politics of Indians in Kenya at this time centered around four interrelated concerns: an engagement with anticolonial nationalism in India; trade unionism among Indian and African workers; interracial anticolonial nationalism in Kenya; and loyalism—toward the colonial administration—in Kenya.
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