South Asians in East Africa: Achievement and discrimination

Gupta, Desh

doi:10.1080/00856409808723352

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“…A racially divided railway construction team was charged with building this railway across difficult terrains. Most of the railway workers were British Indian indentured labour, specifically from Punjab -both Muslims and Sikhs -who worked with African workers and British engineers (Gupta 1998;Mills and Yonge 2012). As Kimani writes in his novel, 'the rail was the product of their collective efforts -of black and white and brown hands ' (2017: 9).…”

Section: Navvies and Colonial Labour Building Railwaysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Temple Tracks

Sinha

2023

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The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Temple Tracks critically outlines the interlink of railway construction in colonial and post-colonial Asia, as well as the anthropology of infrastructure and transnational mobilities with religion. In Malaysia and Singapore, evidence of religion-making and railway-building from a colonial past is visible in multiple modes and media as memories, recollections and ‘traces’.

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Section: Navvies and Colonial Labour Building Railwaysmentioning

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Temple Tracks

Sinha

2023

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“…Similarly, Mangat's (1969) early survey work on Asians in East Africa, among others, mentioned how schooling and education developed across the 20th century. Their archival references and statistics are all useful for drawing out the child in these communities, although less than 50% of Indian children in Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika or Zanzibar went to school and focus solely on educational records is not enough to draw out the child's perspective (Gupta, 1998, p. 121; Mambo, 1983). Missionary records have proved invaluable for understanding how education developed in many parts of the empire.…”

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Indian child migration in the British Empire

Mukherjee

2021

History Compass

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Historical scholarship on the colonial child and of child emigration in the British Empire has flourished in recent years, but the South Asian child migrant has not figured in these studies. Meanwhile, studies on global Indian migration in the British Empire are part of an exciting, growing field, but young people are rarely considered. This article discusses the rich and growing historiography on Indian overseas migration in the 19th and early 20th century and tries to locate the Indian child within it. It surveys work on indentured servitude, labour migration and elite travel and considers how the Indian child migrant can be located in historical works and archives. It argues that the historiography would benefit from an explicit thematisation and historicisation of the Indian child in topics such as ship voyages, child labour and education. In surveying this literature, this article argues that there is huge scope for historians of migration, childhood and empire to examine the experience of children who migrated out from the Indian subcontinent to offer deeper insight into social, economic and political change on a global scale and the Indian child migrant's relationship to shifting ideas of race, class, citizenship and nation in this period.

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Ostracisation, inequity, and exclusion: the lasting effects of 9/11 and the war on terror on South Asian diasporas

Dmello

2021

Critical Studies on Terrorism

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South Asians in East Africa: Achievement and discrimination

Cited by 15 publications

References 7 publications

Temple Tracks

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Indian child migration in the British Empire

Ostracisation, inequity, and exclusion: the lasting effects of 9/11 and the war on terror on South Asian diasporas

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