Gujarat and the Trade of East Africa, c. 1500-1800

Alpers, Edward A.

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“…A presença de mercadores de Gujarati na África Oriental remonta a muitos séculos. Esses comerciantes também tinham redes de comércio que se estendiam para o interior do continente (ALPERS, 1976). Com o advento dos contratos de trabalho forçado a fim de construir as ferrovias do leste africano, a população de comerciantes aumentou.…”

Section: Migrantes Livresunclassified

O Atlântico negro encontra o Oceano Índico: gerando novos paradigmas para um transnacionalismo do Sul Global – Perspectivas Literárias e Culturais

Hofmeyr

2018

Remate de Males

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Com a recente virada transnacional nas ciências humanas e sociais, as questões relacionadas ao translocalismo passaram a dominar a agenda acadêmica. Os estudos da África Austral orientados por perspetivas transnacionais basearam-se, geralmente, no modelo do Atlântico negro. Este artigo defende que é preciso complementar essa perspectiva com um engajamento sistemático com o Oceano Índico. O artigo descreve as principais tradições historiográficas associadas ao Oceano Índico, para realçar o modo como esses temas desafiam os pressupostos teorizados anteriormente com base no modelo do Atlântico negro. Na parte final do artigo, defende-se que a inclusão do Oceano Índico na cartografia da África do Sul ampliaria os mapas dos estudos culturais e literários desse país.

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O Atlântico negro encontra o Oceano Índico: gerando novos paradigmas para um transnacionalismo do Sul Global – Perspectivas Literárias e Culturais

Hofmeyr

2018

Remate de Males

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“…By the mid‐nineteenth century, Hindu Banias, Bhatiyas and Lohanas, Sunni Memons and Baluchis and Shia Boharas, Isthanasteries and Ismaili Khoja trading communities, amongst others, were established along the East African coastal ports. These communities were engaged in trade first with the Omani, then the Portuguese and later British empires (Alpers 1976). However, the reference here to ‘Indians’ serves to collapse the religious, regional, caste and class complexities of Asians in East Africa and claim a generalistic Indian, rather than South Asian, economic configuration of trade.…”

Section: Decolonising the Colonial Histories Of Asians In East Africamentioning

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Decolonising the diaspora: neo‐colonial performances of Indian history in East Africa

Dickinson

2012

Trans Inst British Geog

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Governments are increasingly engaging with their diasporas as a means of managing their national economies. Nevertheless, analyses of government diaspora strategies have not adequately accounted for the complexities of diasporic affiliations and identities, especially those not easily brought into the purview of economic governance. Drawing on performative understandings of how national polities are realised, this paper argues that incorporating diasporic populations entails more than managing material flows: it also involves an engagement with the histories that tie diasporas to particular nations. Using a discourse analysis of the textual narratives of the Indian Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA), I examine their representations of East African Asians’ history of migration and settlement. Though the MOIA ‘decolonises’ their historical associations with the ambiguous space of the Indo‐Pakistan subcontinent, it also ironically deploys colonial modes of thought in rewriting their history as Indian. This analysis suggests there is a need to re‐examine how diasporas are valued by governments to take account of their multiple historical and contemporary significances.

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“…Perhaps the only reliable evidence comes from some locally made pottery which appears to use an Indian style (Wilding 1973). There is a little documentation for resident Indians in east Africa before the rise of Gujarat in the 15th century (Alpers 1976). The eyewitness accounts of al-Mas'udi (916 AD) and Ibn Battuta (1332 AD) make no mention of resident Indians, but al-Biruni (c. 1030 AD) noted that the northern Indian port of Somanath was prosperous because it lay between the trade of east Africa and China (Sachau 1910: i, 104).…”

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‘Indian’ metalwork in East Africa: the bronze lion statuette from Shanga

Horton

Blurton

1988

Antiquity

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There are few frontiers from later periods whose archaeology is more beguiling than the east African coast. To the east are the sea-routes ofthe Indian Ocean, to the Islamic world, to India, to Indonesia, to China. To the west are the distinctive cultures of medieval Africa. And on the coast are the settlements where the east and the west touch. This paper works towards the wider issue of circum-maritime cultures from a single find from the new excavations at Shanga which have revealed mosques of a remarkably early date.

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Gujarat and the Trade of East Africa, c. 1500-1800

Cited by 61 publications

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O Atlântico negro encontra o Oceano Índico: gerando novos paradigmas para um transnacionalismo do Sul Global – Perspectivas Literárias e Culturais

O Atlântico negro encontra o Oceano Índico: gerando novos paradigmas para um transnacionalismo do Sul Global – Perspectivas Literárias e Culturais

Decolonising the diaspora: neo‐colonial performances of Indian history in East Africa

‘Indian’ metalwork in East Africa: the bronze lion statuette from Shanga

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