SWAMI SHANKERANAND AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF HINDUISM IN NATAL, 1908-1913
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Over a decade ago Maureen Swan remonstrated that in the pre-1914
discourse on Indian South Africans "there is no real place for anyone
but Gandhi ... The flaw is that analyses which concentrate on Gandhi
to the exclusion, or virtual exclusion, of his constituents, inevitably
offer a superficial, and thus often distorted, picture of the social and
political reality ... " 1 Indians are treated in the existing literature as an
undifferentiated mass; distinctions and differences within the Indian
community are ignored. Little has changed since Swan first recorded
her observations. There still remains very little representation of
those outside of Gandhi's political community.
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Posted by: Thiru
On: Thursday, April 25, 2019 - 14:36