Narrating Africa in South Asia

Herausgeber: Kooria, Mahmood

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781032515168
• ISBN-10: 1032515163
• Artikelnr.: 71578517

Autorenporträt

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