Deconstructing ‘Indianness’: Cricket and the Articulation of Indian Identities in Durban, 1900–32
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https://doi.org/10.1080/14610980312331271579
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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. Use of the term 'Indian' suggested that the attribute 'Indianness' united them as a group in opposition to Whites, Coloureds and Africans. 1 Indians were seen by Africans, Coloureds and successive white Natal governments as a distinct group on the basis of skin colour, 'strange' culture and foreign origin. This study of Indian cricket questions the notion of …
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