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TY - JOUR
T1 - Divided and uncertain loyalties
T2 - partition, Indian sovereignty and contested citizenship in East Africa, 1948-1955
AU - Sutton, D. R.
N1 - RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : History
PY - 2007/7/1
Y1 - 2007/7/1
N2 - This article is concerned with attempts made by India's political bureaucrats in the period immediately after independence to establish principles of jurisdiction over Indians in East Africa. A fictional certainty of a finalized partition within South Asia allowed the Indian bureaucracy, without any recourse to territory, to develop alternative terms of inclusion to apply to the Indians living overseas. These terms vacillated awkwardly between a continuation of the relationships which had existed before Indian independence and the acknowledgement that any such practicable or juridical authority transgressed the principles of bounded territorial sovereignty. By the mid-1950s, the transformation of the 'Indian' in East Africa into an obstacle to African nationalism within the racialized permutations of late-colonial politics ultimately, and ironically, proved redemptive of the dilemma faced by the Indian state in delineating its relationship with those of Indian origin in East Africa.
AB - This article is concerned with attempts made by India's political bureaucrats in the period immediately after independence to establish principles of jurisdiction over Indians in East Africa. A fictional certainty of a finalized partition within South Asia allowed the Indian bureaucracy, without any recourse to territory, to develop alternative terms of inclusion to apply to the Indians living overseas. These terms vacillated awkwardly between a continuation of the relationships which had existed before Indian independence and the acknowledgement that any such practicable or juridical authority transgressed the principles of bounded territorial sovereignty. By the mid-1950s, the transformation of the 'Indian' in East Africa into an obstacle to African nationalism within the racialized permutations of late-colonial politics ultimately, and ironically, proved redemptive of the dilemma faced by the Indian state in delineating its relationship with those of Indian origin in East Africa.
KW - citizenship
KW - communalism
KW - East Africa
KW - identity
KW - Indian diaspora
KW - Kenya
KW - secularism
U2 - 10.1080/13698010701409194
DO - 10.1080/13698010701409194
M3 - Journal article
VL - 9
SP - 276
EP - 288
JO - Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
JF - Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
SN - 1369-801X
IS - 2
ER -