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Author Oonk, Gijsbert, 1966-

Title Settled strangers : Asian business elites in East Africa (1800-2000) / Gijsbert Oonk.

Publication Info. New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2013.
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Settled strangers: from middleman minorities to world citizens -- Asians in Africa 1880/1920: settling as an economic process -- Asians in Africa 1880/1960: settling as a cultural process -- Asians in Africa 1880/2000: settling and unsettling as a political process -- A quest for an interdisciplinary history from below in explaining social change.
Summary Settled Strangers aims at understanding the social, economic and political evolution of the transnational migrant community of Gujarati traders and merchants in East Africa. The history of South Asians in East Africa is neither part of the mainstream national Indian history nor that of East African history writing. This is surprising because South Asians in East Africa outnumbered the Europeans ten-to-one. Moreover, their overall economic contribution and political significance may be more important than the history of the colonisers. This book is an attempt to provide som.
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Subject East Asians -- Africa -- History.
East Asians.
Africa.
History.
East Asians -- Africa -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
East Asians -- Africa -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Businesspeople -- Africa -- History.
Businesspeople.
India -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
India.
Emigration and immigration.
Africa -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Oonk, Gijsbert, 1966- Settled strangers. New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2013 9788132110545 (DLC) 2012050414 (OCoLC)823387481
ISBN 9788132113331 (electronic book)
8132113330 (electronic book)
1299585159 (e-book)
9781299585157 (e-book)
9788132110545
8132110544

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