In a Restless State
Mercantile Adventure and Citizenship in the Autobiography of Nanji Kalidas Mehta (1888--1969)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3751231 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ojwang, Ojwang Ojwang (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 57 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9887 • E-ISSN: 1527-1978 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/africatoday.57.3.57 |
| OpenAlex | W2019290304 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
In his autobiography, Dream Half-Expressed, Nanji Kalidas Mehta, the pioneer Indian agricultural industrialist in East Africa, sought to project himself as a restless person, infected with an inquisitiveness that in the end made him knowledgeable, tolerant, wealthy, and part of a world much larger than the one he knew when he first ventured from Gujarat to East Africa in 1900. This article seeks to show how his travels, especially in East Africa and the Indian Ocean islands, came to shape his senses of belonging and his hopes for India and its possible futures, especially in regard to the vexed questions of culture and community. It ends with a brief reflection on how the study of itinerant lives might yield insights into Indian and African pasts
Adventure · Ancient history · Art history · Biography · Citizenship · Dream · Economics · Futures contract · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · African history and culture studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Mathematics · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology
India and East Africa
Strangers in African societies
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The Dilemmas of a Search for Cultural Synthesis
The Asians in East Africa
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Tropics of Discourse
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |