Abstract
Abstract : This article reconnu the story of a how a young Indian born into an Ismaili family of relatively modest means in Gujarat in northwest India settled in Kenya in the early part of the twentieth century and rose to become a successful merchant and respected member of the Kenyan Indian community. It portrays the struggles that he undertook with other members of the Indian community against colonial policies of racial discrimination and political marginalisation and shows some of the unintended consequences of these actions for the group in the post-colonial period. It uses Jean-Paul' s Sartre' s notions of'project' and 'situation' to analyse the life-history. Through the application of Sartre 's idea of 'dialectical totalisation', the article attempts to capture some of the historical processes taking place during the period in question at four interconnected levels : individual, communal, régional and global.
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