• DOI:10.1177/0021909609357418
Corpus ID: 143909800

Marriage as the Means to Preserve ‘Asian-ness’: The Post-Revolutionary Experience of the Asians of Zanzibar

@article{Keshodkar2010MarriageAT,
  title={Marriage as the Means to Preserve ‘Asian-ness’: The Post-Revolutionary Experience of the Asians of Zanzibar},
  author={Akbar Keshodkar},
  journal={Journal of Asian and African Studies},
  year={2010},
  volume={45},
  pages={226 - 240}
}

Akbar Keshodkar

Published 2010

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Journal of Asian and African Studies

The question of identity, shaped by issues of race and ethnicity, is paramount in the multi-cultural ethnic landscape of Zanzibar. This article examines how the present-day Asian community of Zanzibar, decimated by the 1964 Revolution, when an African insurgence overthrew the islands’ Arab rule and expelled the majority of Arabs and Asians, survived in Zanzibar in the years following the Revolution and how, through demarcating communal boundaries and exercising specific marriage strategies, it… CONTINUE READING

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