Becoming Zimbabwean (eBook)

A History of Indians in Rhodesia

Trishula Rachna Patel (Autor)

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2026
258 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5450-9 (ISBN)

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The first comprehensive history of Indian migrants and their descendants in ZimbabweBecoming Zimbabwean tells the long-overdue story of the Indian community in the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. Centering the stories of individuals and families, and building on a foundation of extensive archival research, Trishula Rachna Patela Zimbabwean of Indian origin herselfshows that the history of Indians in Zimbabwe is not of a transient diaspora but one of deliberate permanence. Indians initially played a critical part in the settler colonial process in Southern Rhodesia, but as new generations were born and raised, their politics and social lives evolved to localized forms of citizenship. Eventually, they functioned as part of the resistance to the Rhodesian white minority government, either through participation in the system as nonwhites or by joining the Black anticolonial nationalist movement. They did all this through their shops, African-rooted institutions that became social, economic, and political spaces through which Indians became Zimbabwean. In this highly readable and authoritative study, Patel makes clear that Zimbabwe cannot be properly understood without accounting for the substantial Indian community that has woven itself into the fabric of the nation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.1.2026
• Reihe/Serie: Reconsiderations in Southern African History
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b&w illustrations, 1 map
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Bhimjee Naik • Black anticolonial nationalist movement • British colonialism • dukkan • Gujarati • Harare • Herrenvolk democracy • hindoo • Hindu • History of Zimbabwe • Indian Migrants • indian shops in zimbabwe • indians in southern africa • indians in zimbabwe • laundry shops in zimbabwe • Rhodesian white minority government • Southern Rhodesia • white minority government • Zimbabwe • Zimbabwe African National Union • Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front • Zimbabwe African People’s Union • zimbabweans of indian origin
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-5450-9 / 0813954509
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-5450-9 / 9780813954509