摘要
印度人大规模地进入肯尼亚是在19世纪末20世纪初,其时,英国殖民者为其东非殖民地修建铁路而引入印度劳工。在英国殖民统治时期,印度人在肯尼亚建立起小而有影响力的印度人社区。殖民时期,印度人在肯尼亚处于一种两难的境地:一方面部分印度人在肯尼亚参加了反对英国殖民统治的斗争,甚至参加了肯尼亚的独立运动;另一方面多数印度人为自身创造和积累了大量财富,同时也被质疑垄断了肯尼亚的商品市场并掌控了肯尼亚的经济命脉而受到非洲人的敌视。独立后,印度人成为肯尼亚的一个民族,肯尼亚政府对印度人的经济和政治能量进行了控制,大部分印度人出于各种原因,远离了肯尼亚的政治,但印度人的某些特质却阻碍了印度人作为一个民族真正融入肯尼亚社会。
The history of Indians in Kenya can be traced to the 1st century, but only on small scale until the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. At that time, British colonists employed Indian labour force to build railroad in their east African colonies. During the colonial period, many Indians came to Kenya and formed the communities that were small but influential. At that time, Indians as a different race faced the dilemma： on one hand, some were involved in the struggles against British colonists even the independent movement for Kenya; on the other hand, most Indians accumulated a lot of property for themselves and it was blameworthy that they monopolized the markets and controlled the economic lifelines in Kenya. After the independence, Kenyan government restrained the economic as well as political influence of Indians. For different reasons, most Indians were away from Kenyan politics completely. Indians gradually became an ethnic characteristics of Indians hindered them as an ethnic society. minority in Kenya. However, some group truly integrated into the Kenyan
出处
《世界民族》
CSSCI
北大核心
2014年第1期92-100,共9页
Journal of World Peoples Studies
