A History of the Present
A Biography of Indian South Africans, 1990-2019
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ISBN:
9780199498017
Publication date:
24/06/2025
Hardback
404 pages
223x147mm
Price: 1495.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199498017
Publication date:
24/06/2025
Hardback
404 pages
Ashwin Desai, Goolam Vahed
First full length study on the Indian diaspora in post-apartheid South Africa; Feeds into historiography on Indian Diaspora and Indian Ocean Studies,The book is based on original oral and archival research and covers new ground related to the Indian experience over the past 25 years,Engages with issues of transnationalism, citizenship, diaspora, and nation
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Ashwin Desai, Goolam Vahed
Description
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.
About the Authors
Professor Ashwin Desai, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg, and Professor Goolam Vahed, Professor, Department of History, University of KwaZulu Natal
Ashwin Desai is Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg. Goolam Vahed is Professor, Department of History, University of KwaZulu Natal.
Ashwin Desai, Goolam Vahed
Table of contents
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
Ashwin Desai, Goolam Vahed
Description
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.
About the Authors
Professor Ashwin Desai, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg, and Professor Goolam Vahed, Professor, Department of History, University of KwaZulu Natal
Ashwin Desai is Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg. Goolam Vahed is Professor, Department of History, University of KwaZulu Natal.
Table of contents
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
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