Merchant-kings and everymen: narratives of the South Asian diaspora of East Africa
The building of the Uganda railway at the turn of the nineteenth century brought about radical shifts in the notion of territory and the conception of time within East Africa. A sense of Indian Ocean continuity and cosmopolitanism signified by the pace of the dhow and the seaward perspective of coas...
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2007-03.
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