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Author |
: Zainab Priya Dala |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 152 |
Release |
: 2018-09-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9388070534 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789388070539 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Gandhi Didn't See by : Zainab Priya Dala
From the vantage point of her own personal history--a fourth-generation Indian South African of mixed lineage--indentured as well as trader class, part Hindu, part Muslim--Dala explores the nuts and bolts of being Indian in South Africa today. From 1684 till the present, the Indian diaspora in South Africa has had a long history. But in the country of their origin, they remain synonymous with three points of identity: indenture, apartheid and Mahatma Gandhi. In this series of essays, Zainab Priya Dala deftly lifts the veil on some of the many other facets of South African Indians, starting with the question: How relevant is Gandhi to them today? It is a question Dala answers with searing honesty, just as she tackles the questions of the 'new racism'--between Black Africans and Indians--and the 'new apartheid'--money; the tussle between the 'canefields' where she grew up, and the 'Casbah', or the glittering town of Durban; and what the changing patterns in the names the Indian community chooses to adopt reflect. In writing that is fluid, incisive and sensitive, she explores the new democratic South Africa that took birth long after Gandhi returned to the subcontinent, and the fight against apartheid was fought and won. In this new 'Rainbow Nation', the people of Indian origin are striving to keep their ties to Indian culture whilst building a stronger South African identity. Zainab Priya Dala describes some of the scenarios that result from this dichotomy.
Author |
: Zainab Priya Dala |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9388070518 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789388070515 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Ghandi Didn't See by : Zainab Priya Dala
Author |
: Priya Zainub Dala |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9388070526 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789388070522 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Gandhi Didn't See by : Priya Zainub Dala
Author |
: Ashwin Desai |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 442 |
Release |
: 2015-10-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804797221 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0804797226 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis The South African Gandhi by : Ashwin Desai
A biography detailing Gandhi’s twenty-year stay in South Africa and his attitudes and behavior in the nation’s political context. In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. “India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma,” goes a popular South African refrain. Contemporary South African leaders, including Mandela, have consistently lauded him as being part of the epic battle to defeat the racist white regime. The South African Gandhi focuses on Gandhi’s first leadership experiences and the complicated man they reveal—a man who actually supported the British Empire. Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed unveil a man who, throughout his stay on African soil, stayed true to Empire while showing a disdain for Africans. For Gandhi, whites and Indians were bonded by an Aryan bloodline that had no place for the African. Gandhi’s racism was matched by his class prejudice towards the Indian indentured. He persistently claimed that they were ignorant and needed his leadership, and he wrote their resistances and compromises in surviving a brutal labor regime out of history. The South African Gandhi writes the indentured and working class back into history. The authors show that Gandhi never missed an opportunity to show his loyalty to Empire, with a particular penchant for war as a means to do so. He served as an Empire stretcher-bearer in the Boer War while the British occupied South Africa, he demanded guns in the aftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion, and he toured the villages of India during the First World War as recruiter for the Imperial army. This meticulously researched book punctures the dominant narrative of Gandhi and uncovers an ambiguous figure whose time on African soil was marked by a desire to seek the integration of Indians, minus many basic rights, into the white body politic while simultaneously excluding Africans from his moral compass and political ideals. Praise for The South African Gandhi “In this impressively researched study, two South African scholars of Indian background bravely challenge political myth-making on both sides of the Indian Ocean that has sought to canonize Gandhi as a founding father of the struggle for equality there. They show that the Mahatma-to-be carefully refrained from calling on his followers to throw in their lot with the black majority. The mass struggle he finally led remained an Indian struggle.” —Joseph Lelyveld, author of Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India “This is a wonderful demonstration of meticulously researched, evocative, clear-eyed and fearless history writing. It uncovers a story, some might even call it a scandal, that has remained hidden in plain sight for far too long. The South African Gandhi is a big book. It is a serious challenge to the way we have been taught to think about Gandhi.” —Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things
Author |
: Ramachandra Guha |
Publisher |
: Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 871 |
Release |
: 2017-07-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509883288 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509883282 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by : Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha’s India after Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world’s largest and least likely democracy. A riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation, and of the extraordinary individuals and institutions who held it together, it established itself as a classic when it was first published in 2007. In the last decade, India has witnessed, among other things, two general elections; the fall of the Congress and the rise of Narendra Modi; a major anti-corruption movement; more violence against women, Dalits, and religious minorities; a wave of prosperity for some but the persistence of poverty for others; comparative peace in Nagaland but greater discontent in Kashmir than ever before. This tenth anniversary edition, updated and expanded, brings the narrative up to the present. Published to coincide with seventy years of the country’s independence, this definitive history of modern India is the work of one of the world’s finest scholars at the height of his powers.
Author |
: Richard Grenier |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 124 |
Release |
: 1983 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0840753799 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780840753793 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gandhi Nobody Knows by : Richard Grenier
Author |
: Rani Singh |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 429 |
Release |
: 2011-09-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230340534 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230340539 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sonia Gandhi by : Rani Singh
Sonia Gandhi's story represents the greatest transformational journey made by any world leader in the last four decades. Circumstance and tragedy, rather than ambition, paved her path to power. Born into a traditional, middle-class Italian family, Sonia met and fell in love with Rajiv Gandhi, son of future Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi and grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, while studying English in Cambridge. Cruelly tested by the assassinations of her mother-in-law and of her husband, Sonia grew into a strong, authoritative but always private figure, now president of a coalition ruling over a billion people in the world's largest democracy. Through exclusive interviews with members of Sonia's party, political opponents and family friends, Rani Singh casts new light on Sonia. In the first mainstream biography of this inspirational figure, the author's compelling narrative retraces the path of the brave and beautiful Sonia Gandhi, examining what her life and legacy mean for India.
Author |
: Joseph Lelyveld |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 450 |
Release |
: 2012-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307389954 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307389952 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Great Soul by : Joseph Lelyveld
A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country’s minorities, outcasts, and rural poor. “A revelation. . . . Lelyveld has restored human depth to the Mahatma.”—Hari Kunzru, The New York Times Pulitzer Prize–winner Joseph Lelyveld shows in vivid, unmatched detail how Gandhi’s sense of mission, social values, and philosophy of nonviolent resistance were shaped on another subcontinent—during two decades in South Africa—and then tested by an India that quickly learned to revere him as a Mahatma, or “Great Soul,” while following him only a small part of the way to the social transformation he envisioned. The man himself emerges as one of history’s most remarkable self-creations, a prosperous lawyer who became an ascetic in a loincloth wholly dedicated to political and social action. Lelyveld leads us step-by-step through the heroic—and tragic—last months of this selfless leader’s long campaign when his nonviolent efforts culminated in the partition of India, the creation of Pakistan, and a bloodbath of ethnic cleansing that ended only with his own assassination. India and its politicians were ready to place Gandhi on a pedestal as “Father of the Nation” but were less inclined to embrace his teachings. Muslim support, crucial in his rise to leadership, soon waned, and the oppressed untouchables—for whom Gandhi spoke to Hindus as a whole—produced their own leaders. Here is a vital, brilliant reconsideration of Gandhi’s extraordinary struggles on two continents, of his fierce but, finally, unfulfilled hopes, and of his ever-evolving legacy, which more than six decades after his death still ensures his place as India’s social conscience—and not just India’s.
Author |
: M. K. Gandhi |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 2012-03-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486121901 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486121909 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Non-Violent Resistance by : M. K. Gandhi
DIVFine explanation of civil disobedience shows how great pacifist used non-violent philosophy to lead India to independence. Self-discipline, fasting, social boycotts, strikes, other techniques. /div
Author |
: Joan Valerie Bondurant |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2020-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691218045 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691218048 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Conquest of Violence by : Joan Valerie Bondurant
When Mahatma Gandhi died in 1948 by an assassin's bullet, the most potent legacy he left to the world was the technique of satyagraha (literally, holding on to the Truth). His "experiments with Truth" were far from complete at the time of his death, but he had developed a new technique for effecting social and political change through the constructive conduct of conflict: Gandhian satyagraha had become eminently more than "passive resistance" or "civil disobedience." By relating what Gandhi said to what he did and by examining instances of satyagraha led by others, this book abstracts from the Indian experiments those essential elements that constitute the Gandhian technique. It explores, in terms familiar to the Western reader, its distinguishing characteristics and its far-reaching implications for social and political philosophy.