Taylor & Francis
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An ‘Imagined Community’ in Diaspora: Gujaratis in South Africa |
Increasing attention is being paid to the heterogeneous identity of Indian South Africans. This article contributes to this literature by highlighting the distinct migratory history of Gujarati South Africans and the importance these histories have in perceptions of community identity. |
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Between Apartheid and Neoliberalism in Durban’s Indian Quarter |
A drive from Durban's beaches towards the once bustling ''Indian quarter''will lead to a confluence of three streets: Monty Naicker, Alfred Bitini Xuma, and Yusuf Dadoo. |
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Changing Islamic traditions and emerging identities in South Africa |
The de-racialization of South African society in the midst of accelerating economic and cultural globalization has set in motion profound social, cultural and political changes that have confronted the existing notions of identity of most South Africans. |
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Chota Motala. The Making of a South African Political Biography |
Drawing on my experience of writing an account of Chota Motala, a Pietermaritzburg-based medical doctor and anti-apartheid activist, this article considers some of the historiographical and methodological challenges of writing biography in general, and South African political biographies in parti |
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Contesting ‘Orthodoxy’: The Tablighi–Sunni Conflict among South African Muslims in the 1970s and 1980s |
Muslims constitute less than 2% of South Africa's population. In a context where divisions of race, ethnicity and class predominated, schisms among South Africa's Muslims have been largely overlooked in the country's historiography. |
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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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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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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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Hinduism in South Africa: Caste, Ethnicity, and Invented Traditions, 1860-Present |
This paper examines the experience of Hindus and Hinduism in South Africa over the past century and half. It shows that while the influence of caste has generally greatly diminished, Hinduism continues to flourish, and even shows signs of prosperity in public spaces. |
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Identity and Belonging in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Case of Indian South Africans |
This paper examines Indian identities in the post-apartheid period, focusing in particular on the vexed issues of identity and belonging. |
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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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Indenture and Indianness in South Africa, 1860–1913 |
Beginning in the mid-19th century, about 1.3 million Indian contract labourers were exported to Mauritius, Jamaica, British Guiana, Trinidad, St Lucia, Granada and Natal to satisfy the demand for labour that was both cheap and docile (Meer 1980: 3). |
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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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Managing South African transformation: the story of cricket in KwaZulu-Natal, 1994–2004 |
Sport has historically been an important element of South African popular culture, even though it was divided along racial lines for much of the country's history. In post-apartheid South Africa, sport is seen by politicians, sports officials and many ordinary people as a … |
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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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Race or class? community and conflict amongst Indian municipal employees in Durban, 1914-1949 |
This article explores different facets of South African Indian identity between 1914 and 1949 by focusing on the Indian municipal workers resident in Magazine Barracks, Durban. |
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Race, Empire, and Citizenship: Sarojini Naidu's 1924 Visit to South Africa |
This paper focuses on Sarojini Naidu's noteworthy 1924 visit to South Africa. She was the first high profile Indian to visit after the departure of Mohandas K. Gandhi in 1914. |
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The Viability of Islamic Banking and Finance in a Capitalist Economy: A South African Case Study |
Muslims in post-apartheid South Africa have been seeking to introduce stricter Islamic codes in the public and private domains to redefine the kind of Muslims they want to be. |
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World Cup 2010: Africa’s turn or the turn on Africa? |
The awarding of World Cup 2010 to South Africa was hailed as a great ‘victory’ for the African continent and the cause of much celebration. It heightened expectations not only about the spectacle itself but about the benefits that would accrue to South Africa and the rest of Africa. |
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“Gagged and trussed rather securely by the law”: The 1952 Defiance Campaign in Natal |
For almost half a century after the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910, Black1 South Africans responded to the segregationist policies of successive white minority governments principally through non-violent techniques of resistance, such as boycotts, civil disobedience, mass demo |