Siddi as mercenary or as African success story on the west coast of India

India in Africa Africa in India: Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanisms

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 203-229

  Oka, Rahul C ^a   Kusimba, Chapurukha M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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