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Title: | India-Africa Relations: Identification of Some Source-Material as Available in India |
Author: | Narain, Prem |
Year: | 1993 |
Periodical: | Transafrican Journal of History |
Volume: | 22 |
Pages: | 154-165 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Africa India |
Subjects: | foreign policy historical sources international relations Bibliography/Research History, Archaeology Comparative analysis Information resources research |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24328642 |
Abstract: | This article gives an overview of source material available in Indian archives on the relationship between India and Africa during the precolonial and colonial periods and suggests areas for future research. Although material on precolonial Indian-African contacts is scarce, the author identifies some archaeological and linguistic evidence, chronicles and biographies from the Muslim period of Indian history, and Indian art forms, particularly dance, as potential sources of information. For the colonial period, there are the archive materials kept in the National Archives of India, newspapers, the Indian language press, documentation on constitutional and administrative problems under British rule, and the private papers of leading figures, in particular Gandhi. Notes, ref., sum. |