Sana Aiyar
Biographic Data
| ID | 211377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sana Aiyar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sana |
| FAMILY NAME | Aiyar |
| SIGNATURE | AIYAR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable
Burma, or Myanmar as it was renamed in 1989, is largely ignored within the discipline of South Asian Studies, despite its cultural, religious, economic, and strategic significance for the wider worlds of Asia. Burma is often studied either in isolation or alongside Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia, despite its equally important historical and cultural connections to communities, states, and networks across what is…
Peter Kimani. Dance of the Jakaranda
In July 2017, Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta approved the constitutional inclusion of Kenya's South Asian citizens as the nation's forty-fourth tribe. This came on the eve of a tightly fought general election between Kenyatta and Raila Odinga, both of whom lay a familial claim to the nation. Raila Odinga's father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, briefly served as vice president to Uhuru Kenyatta's father, Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first president, before b…
Out of india
Since the start of the 2010s, important new works have been published in rapid succession that put Indians in East Africa at the centre of studies on nationalism, race, and community. They chart new geographies, scales, and discourses of belonging, all of which constitute diasporic consciousness It is to the interventions and new perspectives offered in these works that are discussed in this chapter. Jawaharlal Nehru urged over a million Indians …
Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora
Sana Aiyar chronicles the strategies by which Indians sought a political voice in Kenya, from the beginning of colonial rule to independence. She examines how the strands of Indians’ diasporic identity influenced Kenya’s leadership—from partnering with Europeans to colonize East Africa, to collaborating with Africans to battle racial inequality.
Indians in Kenya
Anticolonial Homelands across the Indian Ocean: The Politics of the Indian Diaspora in Kenya, ca. 1930–1950
ON THE VERY FIRST PAGE OF THE very first “nationalist” history of Kenya, published in 1966, Carl Rosberg and John Nottingham proclaimed that the “largely middle class oriented and religiously fragmented Indian population played only a marginal role in the expanding conflict between the white power elite and dominated African population.”1 While this book opened up new and exciting avenues of research into the history of nationalism in colonial Ke…
Empire, Race and the Indians in Colonial Kenya's Contested Public Political Sphere, 1919-1923
This article explores the connection between three political movements that broke out amongst Africans and Indians within the public political realm across the Indian Ocean - the Khilafat/non-cooperation movement initiated by Gandhi in India between 1919 and 1922, the 'quest for equality' with European settlers amongst Indians in Kenya from 1910 to 1923, and the anti-settler movement launched by Harry Thuku in protest against unfair labour ordina…
Fazlul Huq, Region and Religion in Bengal: The Forgotten Alternative of 1940-43
In the wake of the Government of India Act of 1935, provincial politics emerged as a challenge to the authority and legitimacy of all-India, centralised political parties. While the Congress and the Muslim League set up a binary opposition between secular and religious nationalism, provincial politicians refused to succumb to the singularity of either alternative. Partition historiography has been concerned with the interplay of national and comm…
India: Christopher John Baker: The Politics of South India, 1920–1937. Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, 1976, xxiii, 363p. Rs. 95
Anticolonial Homelands across the Indian Ocean: The Politics of the Indian Diaspora in Kenya, ca. 1930–1950
ON THE VERY FIRST PAGE OF THE very first “nationalist” history of Kenya, published in 1966, Carl Rosberg and John Nottingham proclaimed that the “largely middle class oriented and religiously fragmented Indian population played only a marginal role in the expanding conflict between the white power elite and dominated African population.”1 While this book opened up new and exciting avenues of research into the history of nationalism in colonial Ke…
Empire, Race and the Indians in Colonial Kenya's Contested Public Political Sphere, 1919-1923
This article explores the connection between three political movements that broke out amongst Africans and Indians within the public political realm across the Indian Ocean - the Khilafat/non-cooperation movement initiated by Gandhi in India between 1919 and 1922, the 'quest for equality' with European settlers amongst Indians in Kenya from 1910 to 1923, and the anti-settler movement launched by Harry Thuku in protest against unfair labour ordina…
Fazlul Huq, Region and Religion in Bengal: The Forgotten Alternative of 1940-43
In the wake of the Government of India Act of 1935, provincial politics emerged as a challenge to the authority and legitimacy of all-India, centralised political parties. While the Congress and the Muslim League set up a binary opposition between secular and religious nationalism, provincial politicians refused to succumb to the singularity of either alternative. Partition historiography has been concerned with the interplay of national and comm…
Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable
Burma, or Myanmar as it was renamed in 1989, is largely ignored within the discipline of South Asian Studies, despite its cultural, religious, economic, and strategic significance for the wider worlds of Asia. Burma is often studied either in isolation or alongside Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia, despite its equally important historical and cultural connections to communities, states, and networks across what is…
India: Christopher John Baker: The Politics of South India, 1920–1937. Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, 1976, xxiii, 363p. Rs. 95
Fazlul Huq, Region and Religion in Bengal: The Forgotten Alternative of 1940-43
In the wake of the Government of India Act of 1935, provincial politics emerged as a challenge to the authority and legitimacy of all-India, centralised political parties. While the Congress and the Muslim League set up a binary opposition between secular and religious nationalism, provincial politicians refused to succumb to the singularity of either alternative. Partition historiography has been concerned with the interplay of national and comm…
Anticolonial Homelands across the Indian Ocean: The Politics of the Indian Diaspora in Kenya, ca. 1930–1950
ON THE VERY FIRST PAGE OF THE very first “nationalist” history of Kenya, published in 1966, Carl Rosberg and John Nottingham proclaimed that the “largely middle class oriented and religiously fragmented Indian population played only a marginal role in the expanding conflict between the white power elite and dominated African population.”1 While this book opened up new and exciting avenues of research into the history of nationalism in colonial Ke…
Empire, Race and the Indians in Colonial Kenya's Contested Public Political Sphere, 1919-1923
This article explores the connection between three political movements that broke out amongst Africans and Indians within the public political realm across the Indian Ocean - the Khilafat/non-cooperation movement initiated by Gandhi in India between 1919 and 1922, the 'quest for equality' with European settlers amongst Indians in Kenya from 1910 to 1923, and the anti-settler movement launched by Harry Thuku in protest against unfair labour ordina…
Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora
Sana Aiyar chronicles the strategies by which Indians sought a political voice in Kenya, from the beginning of colonial rule to independence. She examines how the strands of Indians’ diasporic identity influenced Kenya’s leadership—from partnering with Europeans to colonize East Africa, to collaborating with Africans to battle racial inequality.
Indians in Kenya
Out of india
Since the start of the 2010s, important new works have been published in rapid succession that put Indians in East Africa at the centre of studies on nationalism, race, and community. They chart new geographies, scales, and discourses of belonging, all of which constitute diasporic consciousness It is to the interventions and new perspectives offered in these works that are discussed in this chapter. Jawaharlal Nehru urged over a million Indians …
Peter Kimani. Dance of the Jakaranda
In July 2017, Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta approved the constitutional inclusion of Kenya's South Asian citizens as the nation's forty-fourth tribe. This came on the eve of a tightly fought general election between Kenyatta and Raila Odinga, both of whom lay a familial claim to the nation. Raila Odinga's father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, briefly served as vice president to Uhuru Kenyatta's father, Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first president, before b…
Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable
Burma, or Myanmar as it was renamed in 1989, is largely ignored within the discipline of South Asian Studies, despite its cultural, religious, economic, and strategic significance for the wider worlds of Asia. Burma is often studied either in isolation or alongside Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia, despite its equally important historical and cultural connections to communities, states, and networks across what is…
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