Africa in Indian Ink
Urdu Articulations of Indian Settlement in East Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8980778 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nile Green (0000-0001-9575-3889, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 131-150 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853712000230 |
| OpenAlex | W2149035342 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article examines an Urdu travelogue written in 1901 to analyze the discursive frameworks by which Africa was rendered knowable to Indian settlers. As a vernacular ethnography written for a readership of Punjabi migrants associated with the Uganda Railway, the travelogue provides our earliest direct evidence of colonial Indian attitudes towards the peoples and landscapes of East Africa. Envisioning the region as at once an imperial and Islamic settlement zone, the travelogue documents the emergence of an ‘imperial-Islamicate’ discourse that incorporated both littoral and interior East Africa into an industrializing oceanic culture area
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Human settlement · Islam · Literature · Middle East · Settlement (finance · Urdu · Vernacular · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |