In Gujarat, as in other states of India, the Sidis illustrate the long-term African existence in India, which was dominantly analyzed through Eurocentric categories substantiated either by the semantics of slavery or, more recently, by the paradigm of the African diaspora in the world. Both were mainly produced in and for the North Atlantic realm. This article aims at identifying the intersection between the two margins of the Indian Ocean grounded on an ethnohistory of the Sidis of Gir, in Saurashtra. As an anthropologist, it is at the level of contemporary Indian society within the dialectic and dialogic framework of relationships between the Sidis and the other groups that I observed them, being aware of the discontinuities existing within this category on the one hand and, on the other, of a common idiom through which the Sidis communicate their “Africanness.”

在印度古吉拉特邦，就像印度的其他邦一样，锡迪斯人也说明了印度在非洲的长期存在，主要是通过以欧洲为中心的类别来分析这一点，这些类别通过奴隶制的语义或最近在非洲散居在非洲的范式加以证实。世界。两者都主要在北大西洋地区生产并为北大西洋地区生产。本文旨在基于绍拉施特拉邦的吉尔西迪斯人种史，确定印度洋两个边缘之间的交集。作为人类学家，我观察到了西迪斯人与其他群体之间的关系的辩证和对话框架中的当代印度社会水平，他们一方面意识到了这一类别中存在的不连续性，另一方面其他，