Sidis And Scholars: Essays On African Indians by Edward A. Alpers and Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy

This exciting collection of essays brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore the history and present circumstances of one of India’s least known minority groups, the African Indians. Following the editors’ introduction which covers the scholarly literature on Africans in India and an historical overview that looks at the larger history of Africans in India, the essays focus on two different communities of African Indians—the Sidis of Gujarat and the Sidis of Uttara Kannada. They illumine various aspects of the life of Sidis in contemporary India, their worship at the Sufi shrine of Gori Pir, their music and dance, their liminal existence and their agonizing dilemmas and predicament in the complex mosaic that is present-day India.

Publisher:	Red Sea Pr
Year:	2004
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9781569022054
Condition:	Fair
Description:	Inscription on front page; book worn and a little stained.

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SKU: 1594000
Location: Non Fiction