South Africa and India: Shaping the Global South

by Isabel Hofmeyr, Michelle Williams

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781868149483
Publisher:	Wits University Press
Publication date:	05/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	957 KB

About the Author

Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Michelle Williams is an editor and an associate professor of sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Her books include Labour in the Global South: Challenges and Alternatives for Workers; The Roots of Participatory Democracy: Democratic Communists in South Africa and Kerala, India; and South Africa and India: Shaping the Global South.

Table of Contents

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