Indians in Kenya
Indians in Kenya Working as merchants, skilled tradesmen, clerks, lawyers, and journalists, Indians formed the economic and administrative middle class in colonial Kenya. Moreover, despite their…
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Indians in Kenya
Working as merchants, skilled tradesmen, clerks, lawyers, and journalists, Indians formed the economic and administrative middle class in colonial Kenya. Moreover, despite their relative prosperity, Indians were precariously positioned in Kenya. In general, they were wealthier than Africans, but were denied the political and economic privileges that Europeans enjoyed.
Indians demanded recognition on their own terms. Africans usually viewed them as outsiders, and Europeans largely considered them subservient. 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