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Informationen zum Autor Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Klappentext An innovative book about the relationship between South Africa and India 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. Zusammenfassung 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 Ghandi, both countries are important players in the global South. This book explores this relationship further. Inhaltsverzeichnis Historical connections : Gandhi's printing press: Indian Ocean print cultures and Cosmopolitanisms; steamship empire - Asian! African and British sailors in the Merchant Marine c. 1880-1945; the interlocking worlds of the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa and India Pradip; the disquieting of history - Portuguese (De)colonisation and Goan Migration in the Indian Ocean; Monty ... Meets Gandhi ... Meets Mandela - the dilemma of non-violent resisters in South Africa! 1940-60. Socio-political comparisons: Renaissances! African and modern - Gandhi as a resource?; Democratic deepening in India and South Africa; local democracy in Indian and South African cities - a comparative literature review; reimagining socialist futures in South Africa and Kerala! India; labour! migrancy and urbanisation in South Africa and India! 1900-60. ...
