{"id":37126,"date":"2014-08-22T15:18:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T15:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37126"},"modified":"2014-08-22T15:18:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T15:18:50","slug":"negotiating-the-racial-boundaries-of-khoja-caste-membership-in-late-nineteenth-century-colonial-zanzibar-1878-1899","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37126","title":{"rendered":"Negotiating the Racial Boundaries of Kh\u014dj\u0101 Caste Membership in Late Nineteenth-Century Colonial Zanzibar (1878\u20131899)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_africana_religions\/summary\/v002\/2.3.akhtar.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Negotiating the Racial Boundaries of Kh\u014dj\u0101 Caste Membership in Late Nineteenth-Century Colonial Zanzibar (1878\u20131899)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_africana_religions\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Africana Religions<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_africana_religions\/toc\/oar.2.3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 2, Number 3, 2014<\/a><br \/>\npages 297-316<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1353\/oar.2014.0020<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.fiu.edu\/faculty\/full-time-faculty\/iqbal-akhtar\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Iqbal Akhtar<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Religious Studies and Islamic Studies<br \/>\n<em>Florida International University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article explores late nineteenth-century identity formation and caste boundaries among the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khoja\" target=\"_blank\">Kh\u014dj\u0101<\/a> of colonial <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zanzibar\" target=\"_blank\">Zanzibar<\/a>. The central concern regarding children born to a non-Kh\u014dj\u0101 parent was what status, particularly regarding rights of inheritance, the multiracial children born of these relationships had within the caste structure. The case of <em>Nasur Jesa v. Hurbayee<\/em> suggests that the attitude toward these children was inconsistent; sometimes they were embraced, and at other times they were shunned by the Kh\u014dj\u0101 community. The Kh\u014dj\u0101 caste schism in the late nineteenth century and the arrival of Aga Khan III in 1899 further complicated the practice of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/exogamy\" target=\"_blank\">exogamy<\/a>. The Sunni and Ithn\u0101 \u02bfAshar\u012b Kh\u014dj\u0101 further opened their communities through exogamy and continued the practice of plural marriage. At the same time, a command from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aga_Khan_III\" target=\"_blank\">Aga Khan III<\/a> to the \u0100g\u0101kh\u0101n\u012b Kh\u014dj\u0101 led to the reinstatement of traditional caste endogamy and a prohibition of interracial marriage. Therefore, both the demographic realities of Zanzibar and the politics of caste affected how the Kh\u014dj\u0101 interacted with multiracial members of their community and whether they included or excluded them within the caste structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiating the Racial Boundaries of Kh\u014dj\u0101 Caste Membership in Late Nineteenth-Century Colonial Zanzibar (1878\u20131899) Journal of Africana Religions Volume 2, Number 3, 2014 pages 297-316 DOI: 10.1353\/oar.2014.0020 Iqbal Akhtar, Professor of Religious Studies and Islamic Studies Florida International University This article explores late nineteenth-century identity formation and caste boundaries among the Kh\u014dj\u0101 of colonial Zanzibar. 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