Shaping Membership, Defining Nation: The Cultural Politics of African Indians in South Asia

✍ Scribed by Pashington Obeng

Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 250
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A compelling analysis of the complex history, identities, and self-determination of diasporic Africans (Habshis/Siddis) of Karnataka, South India. It addresses African Indian religious beliefs and practices, their deployment of expressive cultural expressions and forms of social and political power through which they engage effecitvely Indian's multi-religious, and complex social stratification systems.

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