Uganda: An Indian Colony 1897-1972 - Samwiri Lwanga Lunyiigo

The long and short of this  book is that it puts the spotlight on Indians in East Africa narrating them as deputy imperialists, sub-imperialists and privileged workers of the colonialists . The core argument is that the dominant status Indians came to enjoy in Uganda's economy (and East Africa more generally) was only possible  because the British Colonialists - those who had brought them privileged them, and practically and violently crushed local investors and their initiatives. The Indians on their part,  embraced their privileged positions, and with a touch of racism,  exploited Natives in a way that sometimes  shocked the British- especially newer  Administrators  from London.  With impeccable reading of the archive, this book shows that before Indians/Asians  were expelled from all East Africa (1965 - 1972), Natives in this region had received no independence.  In fact,  as Mamdan (1995) put it, only the Indians had received independence from the British in the 1960s. With the British departure,  Indians/Asians now dominated East Africa's economy with no restriction, profiting both for themselves,  and their  benefactors now confined to London.