1. Introduction: narrating Africa in South Asia
Mahmood Kooria
2. Eastern African doyens in South Asia: premodern Islamic intellectual interactions
Mahmood Kooria
3. From soldier to spectacle: Africans and the langar procession in Hyderabad
Benjamin B. Cohen
4. Africa in South Asia: hybridity in Sri Lankan Kaffrinha
Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
5. Sidi voices and the Sidi Sayyid mosque: narratives of space and belonging
Beheroze Shroff and Sonal Mehta
6. Geographies of death and memory: shrines dedicated to African saints and spectral deities in India
Neelima Jeychandran
7. Translocal notions of belonging and authenticity: understanding race amongst the Siddis of Gujarat and Hyderabad
Khatija Sana Khader
8. From ‘Afro-Indians’ to ‘Afro-global’ networking: contemporary identification and unification processes among Siddis
S. Péquignot
9. Siddi marriage: re-signifying contract, transactions and identities
Fiona Jamal Almeida and Pashington Obeng
Biography
Mahmood Kooria holds research positions at Leiden University (the Netherlands) and University of Bergen (Norway) and is visiting faculty in the department of history at Ashoka University (India). He has authored Islamic Law in Circulation (2022) and co-edited Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World (2022) and Malabar in the Indian Ocean (2018).
