Settled Strangers
Subtitle: Asian Business Elites in East Africa
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9788132110545
Subjects: South asians; Businesspeople; Asia, emigration and immigration; Africa, emigration and immigration
Description: Settled Strangers aims at understanding the social, economic and political evolution of the transnational migrant community of Gujarati traders and merchants in East Africa. The history of South Asians in East Africa is neither part of the mainstream national Indian history nor that of East African history writing. This is surprising because South Asians in East Africa outnumbered the Europeans ten-to-one. Moreover, their overall economic contribution and political significance may be more important than the history of the colonisers.