The African diaspora is widely recognized as one of the world's major diasporas. However, most of the existing studies of it have focused almost exclusively on the Atlantic world, ignoring the other key dimensions of this phenomenon.

The African diaspora is widely recognized as one of the world's major diasporas. However, most of the existing studies of it have focused almost exclusively on the Atlantic world, ignoring the other key dimensions of this phenomenon.

Product Description: This exciting collection of essays brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore the history and present circumstances of one of India’s least known minority groups, the African Indians. Following the editors’ introduction which covers the scholarly literature on Africans in India and an historical overview that looks at the larger history of Africans in India, the essays focus on two different communities of African Indians—the Sidis of Gujarat and the Sidis of Uttara Kannada...read more

Product Description: For centuries East Africa had an integral place within the Indian Ocean world. While slave trading, slave raiding and their consequences provide one thematic focus, this book looks at Indian Ocean commercial networks that were more complex in the range of products exchanged, including luxury goods and staple food items, as well as enforced labor...read more

Contributed articles presented in a seminar organized by Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, India, in December 2003.

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