A Certain Grace the Sidi: Indians of African Descent
by: Ketaki Seth
With a historical essay by Mahmood Mamdani, professor and executive director of Makerere Institut of Social Research at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda and a critical essay by Rory Berster, Scholar, curator and head of history of art at the Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg, the book presents powerful 78 black and white portraits and streetscapes from the lives of everyday Sidi - Indians of African descent, ho over the past many centuries migrated to India in successive batches as traders, soldiers but have now culturally adapted the language, cuisines and attaires of the land. The artist has assiduously complied her work taken in Gujarat, Goa, Mumbai, Hyderabad and the forests near Manshikere in Karnataka from 2006 to 2011.
