South Africa and India. Michelle Williams M.

      

      South africa & India

      Shaping the Global South

      South Africa & India

      Shaping the Global South

      Edited by Isabel Hofmeyr and Michelle Williams

      Published in South Africa by:

      Wits University Press

      1 Jan Smuts Avenue

      Johannesburg

      2001

       www.witspress.co.za

      Published edition copyright © Wits University Press 2011

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      Chapters copyright © Individual authors 2011

      First published 2011

      ISBN 978-1-86814-538-6

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       Table of Contents

       Acknowledgements

       Abbreviations and Acronyms

       Introduction

       South Africa–India: Historical Connections, Cultural Circulations and Socio-political Comparisons

       Isabel Hofmeyr and Michelle Williams

       Historical Connections

       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

       Socio-political Comparisons

       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

       Notes and References

       About the Authors

       Index

       Acknowledgements

      This volume arises out of a number of research initiatives associated with the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) at the University of the Witwatersrand (www.cisa-wits.org). Started in 2006 as a network of researchers under the title ‘South Africa – India Research Thrust’, CISA hosted seminars, conferences, public events, cultural performances and literary festivals as well as producing a range of publications. This volume represents a selection of work undertaken at CISA over the last five years.

      The articles are drawn from academic publications and are collected together here to provide more ready access to a wider readership. The introduction, chapters 2, 4, 7, 9, 10 and 11 appeared as a special issue of the Journal of Asian and African Studies 44 (1) 2009 and are reproduced with the permission of Sage. Chapter 3 arose from a colloquium on ‘South Africa-India: Re-imagining the Disciplines’ held at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2006. The papers from this event appeared in a special issue of the South African Historical Journal 57 2007 and chapter 3 is reproduced with the permission of Taylor and Francis.