This book explores nuances of various narratives on long-term transcultural exchanges between Africa and South Asia with a special focus on India. It explores the ways in which Africa and Africans have been narrated in South Asian history and culture.It was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.
This book explores nuances of various narratives on long-term transcultural exchanges between Africa and South Asia with a special focus on India. It explores the ways in which Africa and Africans have been narrated in South Asian history and culture.It was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.
Mahmood Kooria holds research positions at Leiden University (the Netherlands) and University of Bergen (Norway) and is visiting faculty in the department of history at Ashoka University (India). He has authored Islamic Law in Circulation (2022) and co-edited Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World (2022) and Malabar in the Indian Ocean (2018).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: narrating Africa in South Asia 2. Eastern African doyens in South Asia: premodern Islamic intellectual interactions 3. From soldier to spectacle: Africans and the langar procession in Hyderabad 4. Africa in South Asia: hybridity in Sri Lankan Kaffrinha 5. Sidi voices and the Sidi Sayyid mosque: narratives of space and belonging 6. Geographies of death and memory: shrines dedicated to African saints and spectral deities in India 7. Translocal notions of belonging and authenticity: understanding race amongst the Siddis of Gujarat and Hyderabad 8. From 'Afro-Indians' to 'Afro-global' networking: contemporary identification and unification processes among Siddis 9. Siddi marriage: re-signifying contract, transactions and identities
1. Introduction: narrating Africa in South Asia 2. Eastern African doyens in South Asia: premodern Islamic intellectual interactions 3. From soldier to spectacle: Africans and the langar procession in Hyderabad 4. Africa in South Asia: hybridity in Sri Lankan Kaffrinha 5. Sidi voices and the Sidi Sayyid mosque: narratives of space and belonging 6. Geographies of death and memory: shrines dedicated to African saints and spectral deities in India 7. Translocal notions of belonging and authenticity: understanding race amongst the Siddis of Gujarat and Hyderabad 8. From 'Afro-Indians' to 'Afro-global' networking: contemporary identification and unification processes among Siddis 9. Siddi marriage: re-signifying contract, transactions and identities
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