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The story complements the historiography on Asian diasporas in East Africa by going beyond the Indian Ocean coast, beyond the precolonial period, and beyond British-governed territories. Looking at different spheres of life and scales of action and assessing both commercial success and failure, this article makes a case for the importance of local dynamics and the relevance of cross-community relations within the relatively small foreign trade sector in the region. The reliance on \u201chome\u201d and kin remained important as mutual insurance at times of arrival and misfortune: firmly established first-comers assisted their relatives upon arrival, while at times of bankruptcy, death, or old age, long-distance family ties proved vital as well. However, facing discriminatory colonial measures, the Arab and Indian merchants were gradually relegated to the role of intermediaries in long-distance trade. Consequently, day-to-day business relations were increasingly a local, cross-community, and above all, precarious affair.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0165115322000249","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,2]],"date-time":"2022-12-02T13:16:14Z","timestamp":1669986974000},"page":"59-75","update-policy":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/policypage","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Spheres of Life and Scales of Action among Gujarati and Omani Merchants in the African Great Lakes Region, 1920s\u20131930s"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"47","author":[{"ORCID":"http:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2999-004X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Geert","family":"Castryck","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"S0165115322000249_ref12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1163\/176830808785327458"},{"key":"S0165115322000249_ref4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/9781316659083"},{"key":"S0165115322000249_ref13","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/09739572.2014.957977"},{"key":"S0165115322000249_ref1","volume-title":"Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania","author":"Brennan","year":"2012"},{"key":"S0165115322000249_ref14","article-title":"Asians in Uganda, 1880\u20131972: Inequality and Expulsion","volume":"29","author":"Jamal","year":"1976","journal-title":"Economic History Review"},{"key":"S0165115322000249_ref3","volume-title":"Diaspora and Nation in the Indian Ocean: Transnational Histories of Race and Urban Space in Tanzania","author":"Bertz","year":"2015"},{"key":"S0165115322000249_ref15","article-title":"The Belgian Base at Kigoma's Railhead (1920s\u20131930s): Territorial Ambivalence in an Inland Indian Ocean Port","volume":"25","author":"Castryck","year":"2015","journal-title":"Comparativ \u2013 Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung"},{"key":"S0165115322000249_ref8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2307\/j.ctv224ttsk"},{"key":"S0165115322000249_ref5","volume-title":"South Asians in East-Africa: An Economic and Social History","author":"Gregory","year":"1993"},{"key":"S0165115322000249_ref9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1163\/156920906775768282"},{"key":"S0165115322000249_ref11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2307\/1160486"},{"key":"S0165115322000249_ref10","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"217","DOI":"10.1017\/hia.2019.3","article-title":"Introduction: Bridging Histories of East and Central Africa","volume":"46","author":"Castryck","year":"2019","journal-title":"History in Africa"},{"key":"S0165115322000249_ref2","volume-title":"Settled Strangers: Asian Business Elites in East Africa (1800\u20132000)","author":"Oonk","year":"2013"},{"key":"S0165115322000249_ref6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/acprof:oso\/9780199451753.001.0001"},{"key":"S0165115322000249_ref7","volume-title":"Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora","author":"Aiyar","year":"2015"}],"container-title":["Itinerario"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/S0165115322000249","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,25]],"date-time":"2023-05-25T08:15:32Z","timestamp":1685002532000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/product\/identifier\/S0165115322000249\/type\/journal_article"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,2]]},"references-count":15,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2023,4]]}},"alternative-id":["S0165115322000249"],"URL":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/s0165115322000249","relation":{},"ISSN":["0165-1153","2041-2827"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0165-1153","type":"print"},{"value":"2041-2827","type":"electronic"}],"subject":["Political Science and International Relations","History"],"published":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,2]]},"assertion":[{"value":"Copyright \u00a9 The Author(s), 2022. 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