Description
Book SynopsisTraces 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 work features contributors on this topic from the fields of history, literature, dance, sociology, gender studies, and religion.
Trade Review. . . the essays in this volume on Indian Ocean slavery and the African settlements in India are a useful lens into the larger debates that surround this rapidly growing arena of scholarly study.Vol. 40.3 August 2009
-- Gaurav Desai * Tulane University *
[A]dds to the growing literature on the Indian Ocean world . . . and cultural interpretations and representations of India and Africa in art, film, music, religion, and other intellectual and sociocultural activities. The text serves as a great introduction or 'crash course' because aspects of the volume serve as historiography of fiction and non-fiction literature about the Indian Ocean and its diasporas all over the globe. Vol. 44.2 2009
-- Catherine Cymone Fourshey * Susquehanna University *
Table of ContentsContents
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
List of Contributors
Index
