Settled strangers : Asian business elites in East Africa (1800-2000) /

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...

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Main Author: Oonk, Gijsbert, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2013.
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