Descrição:

O autor analisa as interacções e conexões históricas e culturais entre Índia e África, demonstrando que estas não podem ser atribuídas apenas ao fenómeno do colonialismo europeu ou da mais recente globalização.

A especificidade deste texto reside no facto de aprofundar e explorar um vasto leque de temáticas  (a escravatura, as práticas culturais e artísticas, a religião, as questões de género etc.), abordando as relações entre Índia e África de um ponto de vista pluridisciplinar.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Unrecorded Lives, by John C. Hawley
1. Slave Trades and Indian Ocean World, by Gwyn Campbell

Part 1. India in Africa
2. The Indentured Experience: Indian Women in Colonial Natal, by Devarakshanam Govinden
3. Shops and Stations: Rethinking Power and Privilege in British/Indian East Africa, by Savita Nair
4. Bhangra Remixes, by Anjali Gera Roy
5. “Hindu” Dance Groups and Indophilie in Senegal: The Imagination of the Exotic Other, by Gwenda Vander Steene
6. The Idea of “India” in West African Vodun Art and Thought, by Dana Rush
7. Politics and Poetics of the Namesake in Mauritius: Barlen Pyamootoo’s Bénarès, by Thangam Ravindranathan

Part 2. Africa in India
8. Siddi as Mercenary or as African Success Story on the West Coast of India, by Rahul C. Oka and Chapurukha M. Kusimba
9. Religion and Empire: Belief and Identity Among African Indians of Karnataka, South India, by Pashington Obeng
10. Marriage and Identity among the Sidis of Janjira and Sachin, by John McLeod
11. African Indians in Bollywood: Kamal Amrohi’s Razia Sultan, by Jaspal Singh

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Index