The Indian Minority In Kenya And British Colonial Policy
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Indians in Kenya
Author | : Sana Aiyar |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2015-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674425928 |
Working as merchants, skilled tradesmen, clerks, lawyers, and journalists, Indians formed the economic and administrative middle class in colonial Kenya. In general, they were wealthier than Africans, but were denied the political and economic privileges that Europeans enjoyed. Moreover, despite their relative prosperity, Indians were precariously positioned in Kenya. Africans usually viewed them as outsiders, and Europeans largely considered them subservient. Indians demanded recognition on their own terms. Indians in Kenya chronicles the competing, often contradictory, strategies by which the South Asian diaspora sought a political voice in Kenya from the beginning of colonial rule in the late 1890s to independence in the 1960s. Indians’ intellectual, economic, and political connections with South Asia shaped their understanding of their lives in Kenya. Sana Aiyar investigates how the many strands of Indians’ diasporic identity influenced Kenya’s political leadership, from claiming partnership with Europeans in their mission to colonize and “civilize” East Africa to successful collaborations with Africans to battle for racial equality, including during the Mau Mau Rebellion. She also explores how the hierarchical structures of colonial governance, the material inequalities between Indians and Africans, and the racialized political discourses that flourished in both colonial and postcolonial Kenya limited the success of alliances across racial and class lines. Aiyar demonstrates that only by examining the ties that bound Indians to worlds on both sides of the Indian Ocean can we understand how Kenya came to terms with its South Asian minority.
British Policy in Kenya Colony
Author | : Marjorie Ruth Dilley |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780714616551 |
At the time of this book’s original publication in 1938 the state if Kenya was exciting much interest and controversy and Miss Dilley’s work was recongnized as an important contribution towards understanding what was at once the most fascinating and the most difficult of all the colonial problems facing the British government. This book is a specific study of British policy in Kenya during this period as the author felt this was particularly pertinent in light of the complexity of the situation in Kenya. The work begins with a survey of the geography, racial groups, history and government organizations of Kenya Colony and Miss Dilley than traces the development and application of the policy which the British Government expressly undertook to maintain – a trusteeship for native races. She also gives a fair and lucid account of the growth of political organizations among the European settlers and describes the history of such past controversies as the ‘Indian Question’ and land alienation. Finally there is a brief section on the application of the principle of trusteeship which deals with the labour question and the industrial and agricultural problems of the colony.
Uhuru and the Kenya Indians
Author | : Dana April Seidenberg |
Publisher | : Vikas Publishing House Private |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
On the role of Asians in Kenya's independence struggle.
Indian Africa: Minorities of Indian-Pakistani Origin in Eastern Africa
Author | : Michel Adam |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2015-10-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9987753515 |
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have minorities from the Indian sub-continent amongst their population. The East African Indians mostly reside in the main cities, particularly Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Kampala; they can also be found in smaller urban centres and in the remotest of rural townships. They play a leading social and economic role as they work in business, manufacturing and the service industry, and make up a large proportion of the liberal professions. They are divided into multiple socio-religions communities, but united in a mutual feeling of meta-cultural identity. This book aims at painting a broad picture of the communities of Indian origin in East Africa, striving to include changes that have occurred since the end of the 1980s. The different contributions explore questions of race and citizenship, national loyalties and cosmopolitan identities, local attachment and transnational networks. Drawing upon anthropology, history, sociology and demography, Indian Africa depicts a multifaceted population and analyses how the past and the present shape their sense of belonging, their relations with others, their professional and political engagement. This book is a must-read for contemporary researchers, students, policy practitioners as well as the general reader.
Colonial Kenya Observed
Author | : S. H. Fazan |
Publisher | : I.B. Tauris |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2014-11-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781780768656 |
Completed in 1969; not previously published.
Kenya
Author | : Maurice Odhiambo Makoloo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Minorities and indigenous peoples in Kenya feel excluded from the economic and political life of the state. They are poorer than the rest of Kenya's population, their rights are not respected and they are rarely included in development of other participatory planning processes. This report discusses the abuse of ethnicity in Kenyan policies, arguing that ethnicity is a card all too often used by Kenyan politicians to favour certain communities over others in the share of the nation's wealth. Kenya: Minorities, Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Diversity exposes these concerns in detail via the analysis of budgetary expenditure in the poor Turkana region, which is dominated by the minority Turkana people, and in the richer Nyeri region, home of Kenya's current President. The author, Maurice Odhiambo Makoloo, calls for immediate action to address the inequalities and marginalization of communities, as a way of ensuring that Kenya remains free of major conflict. It calls for disaggregated data - by ethnicity and gender - and a new Constitution to devolve power away from the centre, so that minority and indigenous peoples stand to benefit from current and new development programmes.The report argues that Kenya's diversity should be its strength and need not be a threat to national unity. Suppressing and denying ethnic diversity is the quickest route to inter-ethnic conflict and claims of succession. The report calls for urgent action.
From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures
Author | : Hiroyuki Hino |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2019-08-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108476600 |
Offers an insightful yet readable study of the paths - and challenges - to social cohesion in Africa, by experienced historians, economists and political scientists.
Divide and Rule
Author | : Binaifer Nowrojee |
Publisher | : Human Rights Watch |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781564321176 |
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