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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:India-Africa Relations: Identification of Some Source-Material as Available in India
Author:Narain, PremISNI
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.
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