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A ground-breaking account of Goans who arrived in mid-nineteenth-century Zanzibar as sailors, cooks and clerks, and went on to become one of East Africas wealthiest and most influential communities. This is a sweeping human story of identity, ambition and the ambiguous nature of power.Zanzibar, situated off the coast of East Africa, was for long a junction for monsoon-driven sea routes connecting Africa, Europe and Asia. By the mid-nineteenth century, it had risen to prominence as a busy, cosmopolitan trading post for cloves, ivory and, unfortunately, slaves. It became a beacon for missionaries, explorers, merchants, and a theatre of Europes imperial ambitions. It was at this time that Goans, who had long been travellers and traders to the East African coast, began settling in Zanzibar, flourishing under Sultan Barghash bin Saids reign.Among the early arrivals were C. R. Souza, D. B. Pereira and Brs Souza, who would all go on to become influential figuresambitious, benevolent, but ultimately flawed characters. Their engagement with a host of lively personalities, including British arch-imperialists John Kirk and Gerald Portal, set in motion a compelling challenge of empires authority over ordinary lives. Mistaken as half-caste Portuguese, they were at times favoured by Britain as law-abiding and industrious, and at other times dismissed as natives needing supervision, even as they began to assert tremendous agency over their own individual lives, gaining influence as physicians, musicians and interpreters to the sultan. Aware of their rights as Portuguese citizens, and making intelligent use of the privilege and protection extended to them by the sultanate, they pushed back against Britains erosion of their civil liberties.In Guts, Glory and Empire, a compelling and unprecedented work of history set against the backdrop of Europes ascendancy in Africa, Selma Carvalho brings us the story of this remarkable community, and restores South Asian voices to Indian Ocean histories.
Product Details
Author
Selma Carvalho
Publisher
Speaking Tiger
Number of Pages
100
Language
English
SKU
BK0543068
ISBN
9789363360792
Reading Age
All
Dimensions
21.6 x 14 x 4 cm
Binding
Hardback
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