South Africa & India :
South Africa & India : shaping the global South /
South Africa and India
edited by Isabel Hofmeyr and Michelle Williams.
- Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2011.
- viii, 328 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-317) and index.
Introduction: South Africa-India : historical connections, cultural circulations and socio-political comparisons / Isabel Hofmeyr and Michelle Williams -- Historical connections. Gandhi's printing press : Indian Ocean print cultures and cosmopolitanisms / Isabel Hofmeyr -- Steamship empire : Asian, African and British sailors in the Merchant Marine c. 1880-1945 / Jonathan Hyslop -- The interlocking worlds of the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa and India / Pradip Kumar Datta -- The disquieting of history : Portuguese (de)colonisation and Goan migration in the India Ocean / Pamila Gupta -- Monty ... meets Gandhi ... meets Mandela : the dilemma of non-violent resisters in South Africa, 1940-60 / Goolam Vahed -- Socio-political comparisons. Renaissances, African and modern : Gandhi as a resource? / Crain Soudien -- Democratic deepening in India and South Africa / Patrick Heller -- Local democracy in Indian and South African cities : a comparative literature review / Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal -- Reimagining socialist futures in South Africa and Kerala, India / Michelle Williams -- Labour, migrancy and urbanisation in South Africa and India, 1900-60 / Phil Bonner -- Conclusion: Cricket ethics : reflections on a South African-Indian politics of virture / Eric Worby.
"[The book] traces the rich range of historical connections between ... [South Africa and India] and explores unconventional comparisons that offer new ground on which to build areas of study. By highlighting varied and similar experiences, the book offers new approaches for researching transnational histories; innovative methods for undertaking comparative research in the global South; an understanding of the significance of the Indian Ocean as a strategic and analytical arena; and interesting and uncommon areas of research such as lascars (black sailors), print culture, civic virtue, political citizenship and labour migrancy."--Back cover.
9781868145386 (pbk.)
2011509012
South Africa--Relations--India.
India--Relations--South Africa.
South Africa--Politics and government.
India--Politics and government.
Indian Ocean Region.
303.48254068 SOU / 007676
Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-317) and index.
Introduction: South Africa-India : historical connections, cultural circulations and socio-political comparisons / Isabel Hofmeyr and Michelle Williams -- Historical connections. Gandhi's printing press : Indian Ocean print cultures and cosmopolitanisms / Isabel Hofmeyr -- Steamship empire : Asian, African and British sailors in the Merchant Marine c. 1880-1945 / Jonathan Hyslop -- The interlocking worlds of the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa and India / Pradip Kumar Datta -- The disquieting of history : Portuguese (de)colonisation and Goan migration in the India Ocean / Pamila Gupta -- Monty ... meets Gandhi ... meets Mandela : the dilemma of non-violent resisters in South Africa, 1940-60 / Goolam Vahed -- Socio-political comparisons. Renaissances, African and modern : Gandhi as a resource? / Crain Soudien -- Democratic deepening in India and South Africa / Patrick Heller -- Local democracy in Indian and South African cities : a comparative literature review / Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal -- Reimagining socialist futures in South Africa and Kerala, India / Michelle Williams -- Labour, migrancy and urbanisation in South Africa and India, 1900-60 / Phil Bonner -- Conclusion: Cricket ethics : reflections on a South African-Indian politics of virture / Eric Worby.
"[The book] traces the rich range of historical connections between ... [South Africa and India] and explores unconventional comparisons that offer new ground on which to build areas of study. By highlighting varied and similar experiences, the book offers new approaches for researching transnational histories; innovative methods for undertaking comparative research in the global South; an understanding of the significance of the Indian Ocean as a strategic and analytical arena; and interesting and uncommon areas of research such as lascars (black sailors), print culture, civic virtue, political citizenship and labour migrancy."--Back cover.
9781868145386 (pbk.)
2011509012
South Africa--Relations--India.
India--Relations--South Africa.
South Africa--Politics and government.
India--Politics and government.
Indian Ocean Region.
303.48254068 SOU / 007676