Saturday, 19 February 2011

Indians in Kenya

Group	Indians in Kenya
Poptime	39,000
Popplace	Nairobi, Mombasa
Langs	English, Punjabi, Gujarati, Hindustani
Rels	Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism
Related-c	Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin, Desi

There are currently over 39,000 Indians in Kenya, most living in the major urban areas of Nairobi and Mombasa with others living in rural areas. Most are Hindus and with some Muslims, often with their own businesses and places of worship.

Temples and Mosques can be found all over the country.

Under British colonialism

Indentured labour from Britain's Indian empire was brought to Kenya to construct the Uganda Railway. Subsequently, the railway brought Indians engaged in trade from the coastal cities into the interior. By the 1920s, there was a sizable Indian population who demanded a role in the developing political life of the Kenya Colony.

Racial hostilities arose with the establishment of the colony of Kenya in 1920. The Indians, enjoying a greater economic strength, were the more adamant. As early as 1920, they turned down the offer of two seats on the legislative council since this was not representative of the size of their community. Tensions remained high until 1927 when the Indians won the right to five seats on the council, compared to eleven reserved for the Europeans.

Independence

In the 1960s, several thousand Indians fled Kenya for the United Kingdom due to discriminatory practices by the ruling government. Since that time relations have improved slowly.

References

Indians of Africa, Rudy Brueggemann, 2000.

A New View of Kenya's 'Asians', Washington Post March 15, 2000.

More Kenyan Asians flee to Britain: BBC, February 4, 1968. Reprinted by BBC.co.uk, "On this Date", n.d.

The Lost Indians of Kenya, Salim Lone, New York Times Review of Books, Volume 17, Number 5 · October 7, 1971.

'We're all Kenyans here', Shashi Tharoor, The Hindu, November 07, 2004.

The Indian Diaspora in Africa, Ruth DeSouza.

Vincent Cable The Asians of Kenya, African Affairs, Vol. 68, No. 272 (Jul., 1969), pp. 218-231

Randall Hansen. THE KENYAN ASIANS, BRITISH POLITICS, AND THE COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS ACT, 1968. The Historical Journal (1999), 42: 809-834 .

Unfree Labour: Family History Sources for Indian Indentured Labour. Research Guide from The British National Archives, 2006.

External links

KENYA, One Hundred Years of Political History in a Flash. Part II. Imperialism, Richard Peck, Lewis and Clark College, 2006.

Immigration Department of Kenya, abstract history of nationality laws.

*http://namaskar-africana.com

www.throughmyeyes.org.uk. Opposition against British colonial rule in Kenya culminated in the Mau Mau uprising, which began in 1952. The political changes that took place after independence in 1963 had important consequences for Asians living there. Film clips taken from Mau Mau, showing Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, made circa 1954. The British commentary encapsulates colonial attitudes of the time. Thisclip is taken from the Imperial War Museum's new online exhibition - 'Through My Eyes: Stories of conflict, belonging and identity.' The site can be accessed on www.throughmyeyes.org.uk. Read this and other stories in full (Film copyright of IWM Ref: MGH_4805, all rights reserved).

East African Desi - Mini Trailer

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East African Desi - A documentary about the movements of Indians to Africa and then to the UK

Kenya - Mau Mau Uprising

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Opposition against British colonial rule in Kenya culminated in the Mau Mau uprising, which began in 1952. The political changes that took place after independence in 1963 had important consequences for Asians living there. Film clips taken from Mau Mau, showing Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, made circa 1954. The British commentary encapsulates colonial attitudes of the time. Thisclip is taken from the Imperial War Museum's new online exhibition - 'Through My Eyes: Stories of conflict, belonging and identity.' The site can be accessed on www.throughmyeyes.org.uk. Read this and other stories in full (Film copyright of IWM Ref: MGH_4805, all rights reserved).

Global Identity -African Indians as Envisioned in 1981 ! Kalaga Prabhu, a Goud Saraswat Brahmin

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Indian South African is a term which refers to people from India living in South Africa. Most Indians in South Africa migrated from colonial India during late 19th-century through early 20th-century. Therefore, the term "Indian" is also used to refer to people who originally hailed from the countries of South Asia. During ideological apartheid from 1948-1994, Indians were called, and often voluntarily accepted, terms that ranged from "Black" to "Asians" to "Indians." Some citizens believed that these terms were improvements on the negatively defined identity of "Non-White", which was their previous status. Politically conscious and nationalistic Indian South Africans wanted to show both their heritage and their local roots. Increasingly they self-identified as "African", "Black", "South African" and, when necessary, "Indian South Africans". Nonetheless, the spread of democratic elections has sometimes heightened ethnic loyalties. Politicians and groups have looked for means to mobilize power in the competitive parliamentary democracy which South Africa has become since 1994. The first Indian to settle in South Africa was Kalaga Prabhu, a Goud Saraswat Brahmin merchant from Cochin. He was the foremost among the Konkani merchants in Cochin. As punishment for conspiring with the Mysorean king Hyder Ali to overthrow the king of Cochin, Kalaga Prabhu and his son Chorda Prabhu were arrested by the Dutch and exiled with their families for life to the Cape of Good Hope in 1771 <b>...</b>

Mombasa, Kenya

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The next day I prepared for my tour of Mombasa. I was picked up by my tour guide and taken to a Hindu Temple. Mombasa has an Indian ethnic minority. Many Indians immigrated to Mombasa in the late 1800s to help build the railroad there. Many stayed and there is still a large Indian community there today. We then headed to Fort Jesus, a Fort that was built by the portuguese and later taken over by the arabs. It is one of the oldest buildings in Mombasa, built in the 1500s. We then went to Mombasa Old Town. Mombasa was founded by the arabs in the 11th century and has a strong muslim influence. About 70% of the population in Mombasa is Muslim. Mombasa Old Town is one of the oldest areas of Mombasa. Women walk in the streets wearing the Burkha, the black garment that covers the entire body. Locals in Old Town are very religous and the sites and sounds felt like I was in the Middle East, it was very cool. We went to the market and saw spices from around the world, bags and bags of saffron and other spices ready to be scooped out and weighed. A diverse population of people of African, Arab and Indian descent (with a spattering of European expats and tourists), made my experience in Mombasa an interesting one to say the least.

Andrew Marr - Immigration 1970s

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Andrew Marr charts the social upheaval which followed the large-scale immigration of East African Indians from Uganda and Kenya to places such as Leicester, Derby, Middlesex and Glasgow in the 1970s. The British government gave these people refuge and rights after the African governments expelled them.

TOILET CRISES

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Masi's toilet renovations

Racist and blind to it: Indians face the mirror 1 of 5

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APARTHEID IN INDIA - www.lynmovement.org Indians say they cannot be racist, but are we that innocent? Are we unaware of our internal racist bias? 83% Indians agree, that is the case. Love Your Neighbour Movement is a Sydney based Christian movement - with international focus - dedicated to social and spiritual action to liberate - 170 million Dalits (doll-leets) or lower caste Indian people and approximately 100 million in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Japan, Kenya, Mauritania, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Sri Lanka etc who are discriminated due to caste or some analogous social hierarchical system - socially, economically, spiritually and politically.

Racist and blind to it: Indians face the mirror 2 of 5

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www.lynmovement.org Indians say they cannot be racist, but are we that innocent? Are we unaware of our internal racist bias? 83% Indians agree, that is the case. Love Your Neighbour Movement (http is a Sydney based Christian movement - with international focus - dedicated to social and spiritual action to liberate - 170 million Dalits (doll-leets) or lower caste Indian people and approximately 100 million in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Japan, Kenya, Mauritania, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Sri Lanka etc who are discriminated due to caste or some analogous social hierarchical system - socially, economically, spiritually and politically.

Kenya child trafficking

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www.instablogs.com Kenya child trafficking The cartels have also been bringing into Kenya Ugandans, Tanzanians, Indians, Chinese, Pakistani, Bangladeshis and Congolese, who are forced to work in construction industry and the Export Processing Zone factories, and as prostitutes in brothels in Nairobi. Notably, children bought or stolen in Kenya are held in Town homes veiled as schools before they are ferried to Burundi, southern Africa and Europe. Some of these children are being trafficked for purposes such as removal of organs, religious rituals or witchcraft. Chinese women have been trafficked for sexual exploitation and Bangladeshis for forced labour through Kenya. In all of the countries that is Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Burundi, the majority of trafficked respondents indicated that traffickers used either promises of jobs with a good salary to persuade them.

Racist and blind to it: Indians face the mirror 3 of 5

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APARTHEID IN INDIA - www.lynmovement.org Indians say they cannot be racist, but are we that innocent? Are we unaware of our internal racist bias? 83% Indians agree, that is the case. Love Your Neighbour Movement (http is a Sydney based Christian movement - with international focus - dedicated to social and spiritual action to liberate - 170 million Dalits (doll-leets) or lower caste Indian people and approximately 100 million in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Japan, Kenya, Mauritania, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Sri Lanka etc who are discriminated due to caste or some analogous social hierarchical system - socially, economically, spiritually and politically.

Imagine! Kenya sings for India

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Leading film-makers are seeking to change the way we think about other countries. This is one of a powerful series of films to be shown on Pangea Day, May 10, "the day the world comes together through film". See all six anthems. Then visit www.pangeaday.org and register your screening...

Shailja Patel How Big is Your Voice?An explosive Kenyan-Indi

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An explosive Kenyan-Indian-American presence on the national poetry scene, Shailja Patel has performed at US venues from Lincoln Center to San Quentin prison. She insists that the platform we command as artists cannot exceed the size of our humanity. She performed work that makes the space larger for everyone's voice at UCSB's Multicultural Center in February and can now be seen on SBTV21.

African Connection - MasterCard Priceless

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Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan, members of the Mumbai Indians IPL team are looking to escape the constant fan following in India and plan a getaway to Kenya with their Titanium MasterCard. First aired 6/25/10

Racist and blind to it: Indians face the mirror 4 of 5

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APARTHEID IN INDIA - www.lynmovement.org Indians say they cannot be racist, but are we that innocent? Are we unaware of our internal racist bias? 83% Indians agree, that is the case. Love Your Neighbour Movement (http is a Sydney based Christian movement - with international focus - dedicated to social and spiritual action to liberate - 170 million Dalits (doll-leets) or lower caste Indian people and approximately 100 million in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Japan, Kenya, Mauritania, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Sri Lanka etc who are discriminated due to caste or some analogous social hierarchical system - socially, economically, spiritually and politically.

The Babson One-Year Hangover

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Dude....what did we do this summer?!!!

Summer '07 Mission Trips: Red Lake, Kenya, Uganda, Brazil

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This Summer we have 4 teams going to 3 different continents. Soul Purpose is sending a team of 30 to the Red Lake Nation of Chippewa Indians. There are 6 of our 8 locations represented on that team. There is also another youth team going to Belem Brazil to work with street children. New Life Lakeview is spearheading two teams to Africa with primarily adults and two youth. Almost all of these pictures were taken from previous New Life / Soul Purpose Trips to these locations. We are excited as all 8 locations have people going on a mission trip this summer.

Vishwatma (1992)Government of Kenya

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The One Who Got Away On March 12, 1993, twelve huge bomb explosions rocked the city of Bombay killing more than 300. The first blast rocked the Bombay Stock Exchange. Eleven more major detonations and several minor ones, most caused by car bombs, shook the center and some of the suburbs of India's largest city. Soon more bombs followed at the Searock Hotel and the Victoria Terminus. The city lay in flames. Dawood Ibrahim and the Islamic Mafia had taught India a lesson that would be hard to forget. The menacing message was loud and clear, those who dared to shake up Allah's established order by breaking the Babri Masjid would pay for it with the life of thousands of innocents. It was another matter altogether that the Masjid's of Allah were built on stolen, misappropriated land by vicious conquerors on the site of Hinduism's holiest and most revered shrine. The Babri Masjid of Ayodhya was the ultimate symbol of Hindu defeat, by destroying it the Indians had invited the wrath of the ISI nurtured mobsters of Dubai. Sanjay Dutt, the Bollywood Terrorist Even as the bomb explosions rocked the center of Bombay city, Sunjay Dutt was lying on the beach in Mauritius shooting for a film called "Aatish" (explosion) when news spread that he was implicated in illegal possession of arms. The Islamic Mafia which had detonated the bombs used Sanjay Dutt's residence as the repository for their arms and ammunition. Police were shocked when they discovered stashes of automatic weapons such <b>...</b>

CWG: Indians lead in Badminton

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Watch out for the Indian players who lead in Badminton at CWG. www.istream.in

Racist and blind to it: Indians face the mirror 5 of 5

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APARTHEID IN INDIA - www.lynmovement.org Indians say they cannot be racist, but are we that innocent? Are we unaware of our internal racist bias? 83% Indians agree, that is the case. Love Your Neighbour Movement (http is a Sydney based Christian movement - with international focus - dedicated to social and spiritual action to liberate - 170 million Dalits (doll-leets) or lower caste Indian people and approximately 100 million in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Japan, Kenya, Mauritania, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Sri Lanka etc who are discriminated due to caste or some analogous social hierarchical system - socially, economically, spiritually and politically.

MY ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE DAD SCHOOLS ME ON "THE BLACKS"

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This is what my dad is like. The views of my father do not reflect mine at all. I recorded this to prove how extreme his views are to my friends.

Archbishop Gilbert Deya - "I am not a Kenyan"

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Origional self-styled archbishop Gilbert Deya remarks on how Kenya is his ex-country how Obama is from his native district in Kenya and how. "The reason is that my name is "Idowu". And if I was a Kenyan what would be the reason, do they worship my God, Yes or No? Thank you. But if its "yes" why did they send my wife to prison and why am I wanted to be extradited , what have I done wrong to them, Who's child have I stolen, what are the name of the parents and where do they live. When did they report there lost children to the police, which police station in Kenya or In the UK? Do we look like thieves? Their mission was to hurt my mission. So its my choice where I claim to belong to! No one is to decide for me. And even those who are in America, Bush, Obama and all the Americans they dont belong to that land except only the red Indians. Everybody has retired to be an American including Reinhardt Bonke, Mikhail Gorbachev of Russia and many more. Milton Obote (ex president of Uganda) died in exile in Zambia and Idi Amin died in Saudi Arabia; Joseph ran to Egypt with Jesus and came back after the death of Herod. The Israelites went to Egypt for many years - So leave me alone I am Idowu and thats enough and Idowu is not a surname of Kenyans."

A' Famosa Resort Wild Wild West Show at Animal Safari! (Cowboy & Red Indians)

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www.syokkahwin.com - Malaysia, your holiday destination. A weekend break at A'Famosa Resort, Melaka, Malaysia. Wild Wild West Show! Syokkahwin.com - Malaysia's Popular Weddings and Family Website.

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Indians In Kenya Held Prayers For The Mumbai Attacks.