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

ISBN-13: 9780739114292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 244 str.

Pashington Obeng

Opis

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.