Exceptions to the expulsion

Violence, security and community among Ugandan Asians, 1972-79

Bibliographic Data

ID2182302
AuthorsAnneeth Kaur Hundle (University of Michigan, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume7
Issue1
Pages164-182
Publication date2013-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Eastern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1753-1055 • E-ISSN: 1753-1063
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17531055.2012.755308
OpenAlexW2164906403
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited17

This paper explores the precarious social worlds of Indians, or Ugandan Asians, who continued to live in Uganda after the 1972 expulsion of the Asian population; men and women who were bureaucratic “exceptions” to the larger out flux of the Indian population. They responded to their racialization and ambivalent inclusion in Amin's Uganda with complex forms of collaboration, complicity, and social practices geared towards shoring up security. Significantly, leaders defined the Indian social body away from an already marginalized Indian political domain that was instituted in the colonial period. Men constructed a new cross-ethnic, religious and sectarian social collectivity in response to their visible status as racialized subjects, forging private enclaves of urban Indian space. Finally, their narratives illustrate aspects of the contingent, bureaucratic, and arbitrary nature of violence and governance in the dictatorial regime. The social and cultural practices developed by Indians during the 1970s continue to structure the dynamics of Afro-Asian relations in contemporary East Africa

Complicity · Development economics · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Population · Racialization · Sociology · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Demography · Gender Studies · Law

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