A lecture and book Signing Saturday , June 10, 2 P.M
Hear is the story of a sub-saharan Africans who gained positions of power and status on the continent of India in the 15th to 20th centuries known as Habshis, the Arabic word for Abyssinian or Ethiopian, the little known group of elite merchents, soldiers, nobles, statesmen and rules worked their way up from slaves eunuchs, or concubines.
Kenneth Robbins, renowned south Asian scholar & auther and john Mclead, chair of the history department at the university of louisville and a specialist in south asian history, will discuss their new book Africans elite in India: Habshi Amarat . A book signing will follow at the Smithsonian
Published by June 10th, 2006 in Shameless Plug.
Mr Gizzle, if you go can you tell us what exactly habshi amarat means??
It means “Abyssinian nobility” in Urdu. (I’m one of the book’s two authors.)
wow, great ..john would u be willing to write a short excerpt/description of the book,… because it sounds interesting…
Sure, Nolawi. The book is a collection of articles by thirteen experts in the history, art history, architecture, numismatics, etc of India. It explores the history and cultural contributions of Africans (mostly from East Africa and often from Ethiopia) who went to India, mainly as slaves, and eventually became nobles, generals, and even (in a few cases) kings. For example, there were the Habshi (Abyssinian) sultans who ruled Bengal in the 15th century, and the Sidis (Africans) of Janjira who held on to a small kingdom on the west coast of India from 1618 to 1948. One of the contributors to the book is the granddaughter of the last Sidi king of Janjira. The book is lavishly illustrated in colour and black and white. The US distributor is the Antique Collectors Club,
http://www.antique-acc.com/ACCUS/acatalog/ACCUS_Asian_Art_and_Culture_471.html
You can also get the book from Amazon.
Wow, so ethiopians went to india and became nobles, generals,
THIS IS SO AMAZING… thanks.. I’ll get the book.!
I will also get the book, it sounds exciting and its another hidden Ethiopian Story,
there are millions of them, we need to uncover the truth people,
Power to the Ethiopians the true bloodline of king Solomon and Isreal
Nolawi, I was bored, sleepless and tired of working on my school assignment… so in here I found this interesting but old posting about the Ethiopian slaves who worked their way up to be Nobles in India. Have you had a chance to read the book and would you recommend it… at’wash?
I would like to read it for myself but wondered if I should gift it to a friend and her husband who are Indian. They are so much like Abeshouch, one would assume they were indeed from Ethiopia. They always claimed they had Ethiopian blood in them… and funny thing is that she is from South India and he is from Bengal (E. India)
Spent three months in India during my GAP year, and found the cultural/physical similarities between South Indians and Abeshoch quite remarkable. Read this account of an Indian who visited Ethiopia, I first read it in Tadiyas magazine a couple of years back. Did you know that ‘shanti’ means peace in hindi?
I give up! My comments don’t seem to get published… is bernos’ commenting system broke?
yona homeboy…bernos gets about 400 spam comment all day to fight the problem there are three different solutions… your comment was caught in one of them..
limiting the number of links is the best solution…
shanti.. no I haven’t but we do look alike..
Nolawi, this is very interesting to me. Is there a way we can get Mr John McLeod back? Could you send him an email? Thanks
sure sure chelema.. anything for you…
have your people email my people so that my people could give you the email address…
seriously though we have the email address.. so email us.. for the info
Yonasiye, thanks and yes, I am aware that Shanti means peace… that is the reason behind the nickname
I love the Indian culture and have always thought we had so many things in common. Maybe, reading this book or even asking the authors some questions would help shed some light to that thought. As for the website you suggested, I loved reading that posting and will send it over to my friends. Its nice to hear of the positive experience of other nationalities in our home, beautiful – love it!
I also plan to visit the Southern part of India in the near future… maybe we should take a trip together so you can help translate. I did however hear that English is widely spoken in India, so the language barrier may be a non-issue!
nolawi, d’oh! i should have figured that one out. thanks, i’ll try to avoid including links.
shanti, i love india so i’ll definitely be revisiting and a trip there is highly recommended. just make sure you drop me a line (yonas.tadesse at gmail com) when you intend to go, even if i can’t join you i’ll still have like 101 travel tips for you.
hej,
i am interested to know- what happened to these nobels. Can we still find them in India and where?
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