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
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Table of Contents
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
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.