Indiyskaya Diaspora Britanskoy Vostochnoy Afriki (1885 - 1934)

Vostochnaya Afrika - eto ta chast' ogromnogo kontinenta, gde razvorachivalis' interesneyshie sobytiya, sygravshie bol'shuyu rol' v sobytiyakh Pervoy i Vtoroy mirovy voin. Zdes', na rubezhe XIX i KhKh vv. stala skladyvat'sya indiyskaya diaspora Britanskoy Vostochnoy Afriki. Eto territroriya sovremennykh gosudarstv Keniii, Tanzanii i Ugandy. Istoriya formirovaniya indiyskoy diaspory v etoy chasti Afriki ochen' interesna i nasyshchena dramaticheskimi momentami. Indiytsy pribyvali syuda na protyazhenii tysyacheleniya, no nachalo KhKh v. stalo vremenem naibol'shego pritoka indiytsev i delezha afrikanskikh zemel' mezhdu kolonial'noy derzhavoy Angliey i Germaniey, zhelavshey poluchit' kolonii v Afrike. Dlya kolonizatorov indiytsy byli kvalifitsirovanoy rabochey siloy, rukami kotorykh stroilis' goroda i sozdavalas' infrastruktura osvaivaemykh zemel' i sozdavalas' nadezhnaya ekonomika. Bez indiyskikh melkikh torgovtsev ne mogli razvivat'sya rynochnye otnosheniya i torgovlya mezhdu afrikantsami i kolonistami, a tak zhe kolonial'nymi vlastyami. A politicheskaya deyatel'nost' indiytsev za svoi prava pomogla mestnomu naseleniyu ne tol'ko uchit'sya u nikh, no i v khode sovmestnykh vystupleniy sformirovat' svoi politicheskie organizatsii, kotorye priveli k osvobozhdeniyu.