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colonial Bombay
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Surat
Product details
- ISBN 9789362139610
- Dimensions: 150 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2024
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
- Publication City/Country: IN
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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On a quest to understand why her great-grandfather, Mohanlal, set sail for South Africa from pre-Independent India, Amrita Shah's wonderfully engaging book sets on record for the first time a sweeping social and business history of the Indian diaspora in the Indian ocean, drawing out an incredible story spanning centuries of migrations and peopled by slaves, political prisoners, sex workers, lascars, smugglers, indentured workers, traders and interpreters.Drawing on an extensive range of sources interwoven with her own first-hand research in India, South Africa, Mauritius and Britain, in The Other Mohan in Britain's Indian Ocean Empire, Shah covers a wide gamut, including in its sweep, the Indian Ocean, the medieval port of Surat where Europeans set up their earliest trading companies in India, the evolution of colonial Bombay and Indian migrant communities in the Indian Ocean littoral.
Amrita Shah is a former editor of Elle and Debonair, a contributing editor with the Indian Express and has worked for the US-based Time-Life News Service. She is the author of the award-winning Ahmedabad: A City in the World (2015), Vikram Sarabhai: A Life (2007) and Telly-Guillotined: How Television Changed India (2019).
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