BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : BLACK INDIANS - AFRICAN OF INDIAN AND PAKISTAN ARE LARGELY UNKNOWN TO THE WORLD EVEN TO THE INDIANS AND PAKISTANI l:

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African Indians

Compared to the fate of Africans of the Americas, the history of Africans in India is still largely unknown to the west.

There are small communities like Jambur scattered along India’s west coast. They are the home to the descendants of Africans who arrived on theIndian continent thousands of years ago. Many of them travelled there as mercenaries, merchants and sailors.

Sea trade between east and southern Africa, and Gujarat in India was established more than 2,000 years ago.

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Many of India’s kings and princes recruited Africans as their ministers, personal bodyguards, and musicians. In some parts of India and Pakistan Sidis even rose to be powerful generals or kings themselves.