South Africa’s future is increasingly tied up with that of India. While trade and investment between the two countries is intensifying, they share long-standing historical ties and have much in common: apart from cricket, colonialism and Gandhi, both countries are important players in the global South. As India emerges as a major economic power, the need to understand these links becomes ever more pressing. Can the two countries enter balanced forms of exchange? What forms of transnational political community between these two regions have yet to be researched and understood? The first section of South Africa and India traces the range of historical connection between the two countries. The second section explores unconventional comparisons that offer rich ground on which to build original areas of study. This innovative book looks to a post-American world in which the global South will become ever more important. Within this context, the Indian Ocean arena itself and South Africa and India in particular move to the fore. The book’s main contribution lies in the approaches and methods offered by its wide range of contributors for thinking about this set of circumstances.
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Introduction
South Africa–India: Historical Connections, Cultural Circulations and Socio-political Comparisons
Isabel Hofmeyr and Michelle Williams
Chapter 1
Gandhi’s Printing Press: Indian Ocean Print Cultures and Cosmopolitanisms
Isabel Hofmeyr
Chapter 2
Steamship Empire: Asian, African and British Sailors in the Merchant Marine c. 1880–1945
Jonathan Hyslop
Chapter 3
The Interlocking Worlds of the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa and India
Pradip Kumar Datta
Chapter 4
The Disquieting of History: Portuguese (De)Colonisation and Goan Migration in the Indian Ocean
Pamila Gupta
Chapter 5
Monty… Meets Gandhi … Meets Mandela: The Dilemma of Non-violent Resisters in South Africa, 1940–60
Goolam Vahed
Chapter 6
Renaissances, African and Modern: Gandhi as a Resource?
Crain Soudien
Chapter 7
Democratic Deepening in India and South Africa
Patrick Heller
Chapter 8
Local Democracy in Indian and South African Cities: A Comparative Literature Review
Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal
Chapter 9
Reimagining Socialist Futures in South Africa and Kerala, India
Michelle Williams
Chapter 10
Labour, Migrancy and Urbanisation in South Africa and India, 1900–60
Phil Bonner
Conclusion
Cricket Ethics: Reflections on a South African-Indian Politics of Virtue
Eric Worby
Despre autor
Eric Worby is Personal Professor in the Humanities Graduate Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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