Goolam Vahed
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Muslim Marriages in South Africa: The limitations and legacy of the Indian Relief Act of 1914 |
Many Muslims in post-apartheid South Africa have been seeking to use the new freedoms of a democratic state and its liberal constitution to pursue distinctive rights as part of a broader project to construct new and tighter Islamic codes in public and private domains. |
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Mosques, Mawlanas and Muharram: Indian Islam in Colonial Natal, 1860-1910 |
This study examines the establishment of Islam in colonial Natal, attempting to fill a void in and correct the existing historiography.1 In comparison with other parts of Africa, the lack of a historiographical tradition on Islamic South Africa is conspicuous, but understandable given that tradit |
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Monty ... Meets Gandhi ... meets Mandela: The dilemma of non-violent resisters in South Africa, 1940-1960 |
This article focuses on key moments in the life of Doctor G.M. "Monty" Naicker (1911-1978), an Edinburgh-educated medical doctor and contemporary of Yusuf Dadoo, who displaced moderate elements in Indian politics in South Africa when he became president of the Natal Indian Congress 1946. |
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Islam in the Public Sphere in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Prospects and Challenges |
The Islamic presence in South Africa dates over three centuries. |
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INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE INDENTURED LABOUR NATAL, 1860-1911: STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE |
This paper focuses on the question of resistance to indentured labour. |
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Institutional Hinduism: The Founding of the South African Hindu Maha Sabha, 1912 |
The majority of the indentured workers who were shipped to Natal between 1860 and 1911 to serve as a source of cheap labour settled in the colony after completing their indentures. |
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INDIANS AND THE WHITE MAN'S WAR, 1899-1902 |
Until recently there was a virtual exclusion of Black peoples from histories of the South African War of 1899-1902. The traditional historiography has |
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Indians and the white man's war, 1899 - 1902 | |
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Indian Muslims in South Africa: continuity, change and disjuncture, 1860-2000 |
Islam is a minority religion in South Africa. According to the 1996 census there were 553,585 Muslims out of a total population of forty million. Indian Muslims make up one of the two largest sub-groups, the other being 'Malay' . |
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Indian Muslims in South Africa's History:Continuity and Change |
The majority of Indian Muslims arrived in Natal between 1860 and 1911 as contract indentured workers or pioneer traders. Indentured migration lasted between 1860 and 1911, by which time 152,641 Indians had come to Natal. |
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INDIAN MUSLIM RESPONSES TO ISLAMOPHOBIA IN AUSTRALIAN CITIES: CONFLICTS OVER MOSQUES |
There has been increased tension in Australian cities over the past decade over plans to construct mosques in a context where Islam appear to be less accepted as a component of Australian religious and cultural society at a time when the Muslim population has increased as a result of migration fr |
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Indian Islam and the meaning of South African Citizenship - A Question of Identities |
Durban's Indian Muslims are heirs to Islamic traditions and practices in India that became firmly established in South Africa. During the past decade they experienced rapid and dramatic changes. |
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In the end it was academic: Responses to the establishment of the University College for Indians |
It will be wrong to advise an Indian father or a prospective student what choice he should make. Each person must accept the responsibility for his own decision, since whatever decisions he makes there will be sacrifices. |
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GIVE TILL IT HURTS': DURBAN'S INDIANS AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR1 |
In October 1913 approximately 20,000 Indian workers joined Mahatma Gandhi's campaign |
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Deconstructing ‘Indianness’: Cricket and the Articulation of Indian Identities in Durban, 1900–32 |
Indian immigrants arrived in South Africa in two waves; approximately 150,000 indentured laborers imported between 1860 and 1911 were followed by traders from the west coast of India. |
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Cultural Confrontation: Race, Politics and Cricket in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s |
This narrative of Yacoob Omar, one of South Africa's finest Black2 cricketers during the apartheid era, is more than a story about cricket. |
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Cricket and corruption: the post apartheid relationship between India and South Africa within and beyond the boundary |
International sports sanctions against the apartheid government resulted in the isolation of South African cricket from 1970 to 1991. |
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Control of African Leisure Time in Durban in the 1930s |
For Paul Maylam, African politics in Durban during the 1930s lacked the'militancy, vibrancy |
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Control and Repression: The Plight of Indian Hawkers and Flower Sellers in the Durban CBD, 1910-1948 |
Hundreds of Indians attempted to make a living on the streets of Durban as hawkers and flower sellers between 1910 and 1948 as they left plantation indentures to find work in the urban environment. |
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CONTROL AND REPRESSION: THE PLIGHT OF INDIAN HAWKERS AND FLOWER SELLERS IN DURBAN, 1910-1948 |
Hundreds of Indians attempted to make a living on the streets of Durban as hawkers and flower sellers between 1910 and 1948 as they left plantation indentures to find work in the urban environment. |