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The African diaspora in India : assimilation, change and cultural survivals
This book explores the understudied and often overlooked subject of African presence in India. It focuses on the so-called Sidis, Siddis or Habshis who occupy a unique place in Indian history. The Sidis comprise scattered communities of people of African descent who travelled and settled along the western coast of India, mainly in Gujarat, but also in Goa, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Sri Lanka and in Sindh (Pakistan) as a result of the Indian Ocean trade from the 13th to 19th centuries. The work draws from extant scholarly research and documentary sources to provide a comprehensive study of people of African descent in India and sheds new light on their experiences. By employing an interdisciplinary approach across fields of history, art, anthropology, religion, literature and oral history, it provides an analysis of their negotiations with cultural resistance, survivals and collective memory. The author examines how the Sidi communities strived to construct a distinct identity in a new homeland in a polyglot Indian society, their present status as also future prospects. -- Page iii.
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Performing Memories and Weaving Archives
This book engages with how the South African Indians in South Africa and Siddis in Gujarat perform creolized musical, spiritual, and culinary practices in their respective geopolitical spaces in the contemporary era.
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The SIDI Malunga project : rejuvenating the African musical bow in India
This 42-minute documentary chronicles a one-week malunga training camp held at Desert Coursers Nature Resort in Zainabad, Gujarat in February 2003. Prior research by the Jairazbhoys had revealed that fewer than ten Sidis (African Indians) could still play the instrument, all of them elderly. The purpose of the camp was to bring together some of these elders to teach the basic techniques of malunga construction and performance to 16 Sidi youths, selected from different parts of Gujarat. Scenes include: assembling 16 malunga bows especially made for the camp group instruction in playing techniques along with singing and dancing, worship at a Sufi shrine in natural context, spontaneous comic disco dancing, brief excerpts from the final costumed Sidi performance, interviews with the students, concludes with a return to Gujarat one year later to evaluate the impact of the camp on the participants.
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From Africa to India : Sidi music in the Indian Ocean diaspora
Sidis descend from Africans who sailed across the Indian Ocean to the west coast of India over many centuries. This documentary project explores the expressions of their Indian and African cultural heritage. The video begins in the Sidi Fort at Janjira Island, built during the heyday of Sidi powers in the Mughal period. It then surveys the music and dances of African-Indian men, women, and children in Karnataka, Hyderabad, Bombay, and Gujarat. Exciting footage of ritual events shows the stages of music during ecstatic trance, exorcism, and celebratory rites, when both male and female Sidi Sufi saints are invoked through euphoric rhythms, voices, and communal dances. Musical instruments such as footed drums, coconut rattles, armpit-held drums, and braced musical bows show the retention of African musical practices. In excerpts from a conference for Sidis and scholars, Sidis present their own views on their history, contemporary issues, and future prospects. The film concludes with exciting concert footage from the first international Sidi tour of England and Wales in 2002. Narrated by UCLA ethnomusicologists Amy and Nazir Jairazbhoy.
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African Indian traditions : sidi dhamal
Sobilale --
Kanga misri mevo --
Man mera laga Bava Gor se --
Goma, Goma, Sidi Goma --
Malunga solo.
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