SWAMI SHANKERANAND AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF HINDUISM IN NATAL, 1908-1913
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September 1997
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SWAMI SHANKERANAND AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF HINDUISM IN NATAL, 1908-1913
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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