Meera Venkatachalam
Meera Venkatachalam is an anthropologist and historian. Her work focuses on West Africa, Indian Ocean connectivities and Africans in India. She is also the co-editor for Common threads: Fabrics made-in-India for Africa.
Common threads – the ties that bind India and Africa through fabric
2020-08-19"As we began writing, we realised that we were telling the story not just of the cloth trade between India and Africa, but of other movements which were intertwined with the cloth trade – such as the slave trade from Africa to India, and free and unfree migrations of people from the Indian subcontinent to Africa."
