L-Indjani of Malta
Contact:
Tonio Cuschieri
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20 Mar 2023 |
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 Malta
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SPEAKER'S EVENING: “L-Indjani of Malta: From trade diaspora to located business, c1860 to the present”.
Our next meeting is a Speaker’s Evening at the Radisson Blu Hotel, San Gorg. Drinks at 7.00pm, Meeting at 7.30pm. I have been informed that the bar is now open again after refurbishment.
The Speaker will be Prof Mark Anthony Falzon, who will talk about “L-Indjani of Malta: From trade diaspora to located business, c1860 to the present”.
Around 1860, the first Hindu traders from Hyderabad-Sind made it to Malta, then firmly embedded in the geography of Empire. Over time they established themselves as a located and respected business community based largely in Valletta. The talk explores the dynamics of this migration and the changes experienced by the group in the course of 150-odd years.
Some of you might remember Mark Anthony from his regular column in the Sunday Times of Malta, where he would write opinion pieces about daily life in Malta.
Mark-Anthony Falzon is an anthropologist and a professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta. He holds a doctorate from the University of Cambridge, where he is a Life Member of Clare Hall. His published works include Cosmopolitan Connections (Oxford University Press), Multisited Ethnography (Routledge), Birds of Passage (Berghahn), The Sindhis (Penguin) and The Examined Life (Midsea).