A History of the Present

A Biography of Indian South Africans, 1990-2019

Professor Ashwin Desai, Professor Goolam Vahed (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

408 Seiten

2019
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-949801-7 (ISBN)

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A History of the Present is the first book-length overview of Indian South Africans in the quarter century following the end of apartheid. Based on oral interviews and archival research it threads a narrative of the lives of Indian South Africans that ranges from the working class men and women to the heady heights of the newly minted billionaires; the changes wrought in the fields of religion and gender; opportunities offered on the sporting fields; the search for roots producing local histories that tell of nostalgia, longing and identity; and the links with India and a myriad of transnational organisations. Indians in South Africa appear to be always caught in an infernal contradiction; too traditional, too insular, never fitting in, while also too modern, too mobile. Can we speak of an Indian 'diaspora' in relation to a people divided by migratory experiences, region, religion, language, ethnicity, caste, and economic status? While focusing on Indian South Africans, this study makes critical interventions into several charged political discussions in post-apartheid South Africa, especially the debate over race and identity, while also engaging in discussions of wider intellectual interest, including diaspora, nation, citizenship and race.

Ashwin Desai is Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg. Goolam Vahed is Professor, Department of History, University of KwaZulu Natal.

CONTENTS

1. Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

2. The NIC and the Transition to a Non-racial Democracy: 'To Be or not To Be'?

3. Waiting for change

4. The Hopscotch of Life

5. Hashim Amla: Beyond Boundaries

6. Between the twice born and the born again

7. Hindus and Muslims: The Many Threads of Change and Continuity

8. Place, Memory, Nostalgia

9. Modi meets Mohandas

10. Classrooms of Mobility

11. The 'Tyranny of Numbers' and the Bitter-sweet Fruit of Change

12. Capital Accumulation in New Times

13. Political Connections, Crassness and Capital Wars

14. After the Rainbow, Dark Clouds?

Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	15.11.2019
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 221 mm
Gewicht	530 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-949801-6 / 0199498016
ISBN-13	978-0-19-949801-7 / 9780199498017
Zustand	Neuware