Abstract
Indian private doctors experienced long and varied careers, they were held in respect and esteem in the Kenyan Indian community and they regularly acted as local philanthropists and community spokespeople. Yet, Indians— even if professionally qualified and ostensibly middle class in their tastes and demeanour—were always to constitute a second class to the white ruling elite.2 As demonstrated in Chapter 6, Indians were ultimately, if unofficially, excluded from the Colonial Medical Service, but this was not the only site in which they experienced discrimination. Ample evidence also exists of the racial struggles of Indian private practitioners. Indian doctors were far from able to enjoy the social, political and professional benefits of their European counterparts with most finding that, even if they supported British governance, the colonial politics of race continually touched the remit and nature of both their public and private lives.
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