The vibrant cultural exchange between Africa and India
John C. Hawley is Professor of English at Santa Clara University. He is author of Amitav Ghosh: An Introduction and editor of eleven books, including Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies and (with Revathi Krishnaswamy) The Postcolonial and the Global.
Unrecorded lives
p. 1
Slave trades and the Indian Ocean world
p. 17
India in Africa
The indentured experience : Indian women in colonial Natal
p. 55
Shops and stations : rethinking power and privilege in British/Indian East Africa
p. 77
Bhangra remixes
p. 95
"Hindu" dance groups and Indophilie in Senegal : the imagination of the exotic other
p. 117
The idea of "India" in West African vodun art and thought
p. 149
Politics and poetics of the namesake : Barlen Pyamootoo's Benares, Mauritius
p. 181
Africa in India
Siddi as mercenary or as African success story on the West Coast of India
p. 203
Religion and empire : belief and identity among African Indians of Karnataka, South India
p. 231
Marriage and identity among the Sidis of Janjira and Sachin
p. 253
African Indians in Bollywood : Kamal Amrohi's Razia Sultan
p. 273
List of contributors
p. 289
Index
p. 291
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