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Book SynopsisSouth 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: 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 or will India inevitably dominate? What forms of transnational political community between these two regions have yet to be researched and understood? South Africa and India addresses these questions and offers new approaches for researching transnational histories.
Trade Review... makes a significant and innovative contribution by establishing a new field of research. -Preben Kaarsholm, Roskilde University, Denmark In recent years, relations between South Africa and India have burgeoned in bilateral and multilateral contexts, but comparative analyses of their histories, visions and developmental trajectories have barely started. ... Hofmeyr and Williams have assembled an impressive interdisciplinary group of scholars to lend insights into various historical and contemporary facets of India-South Africa relations in ways that enrich the comparative enterprise. -Gilbert M. Khadiagala. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Table of ContentsHistorical 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.
