South Africa and India

Shaping The Global South

Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, Phil Bonner, Pradip Kumar Datta, Pamila Gupta, Patrick Heller, Isabel Hofmeyr, Jonathan Hyslop, Crain Soudien, Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal, Goolam Vahed, Michelle Williams, Eric Worby

• Publisher: Wits University Press
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9781868149483
• Topic: Histoire
• Subtopic: Histoire de l'Afrique

South Africa's future is increasingly tied up with that of India. While trade and investment between the two countries is intensifying, they share long-standing historical ties and have much in common: apart from cricket, colonialism and Gandhi, both countries are important players in the global South. As India emerges as a major economic power, the need to understand these links becomes ever more pressing. Can the two countries enter balanced forms of exchange? What forms of transnational political community between these two regions have yet to be researched and understood? The first section of South Africa and India traces the range of historical connection between the two countries. The second section explores unconventional comparisons that offer rich ground on which to build original areas of study. This innovative book looks to a post-American world in which the global South will become ever more important. Within this context, the Indian Ocean arena itself and South Africa and India in particular move to the fore. The book's main contribution lies in the approaches and methods offered by its wide range of contributors for thinking about this set of circumstances.

Index

A

Abrahams, Peter 40–41

Adams, R 137–138

affirmative action/quotas 159, 167, 173, 186, 188 see also black economic empowerment

African National Congress (ANC) 3, 11, 106, 115–123, 156–158, 162–163, 165–166, 169–175, 181, 187, 191, 200–201, 204, 208, 249, 264

African Renaissance 126–127, 132, 135– 136, 140–141, 143–144, 149

New Modernists 137, 139–140

Utopians 137–140

African identity/Africanness 14, 144, 170

Africanism 116

Afrocentrism 137, 141

Ahluwalia, P 132

Ali, Sayed 38–40, 43, 55

ambiguities of difference 84–86, 90, 103, 260–261

Amla, Hashim 266–267

Anderson, Alex 45

Anglo-Boer War 7, 35, 56–62, 64, 66–67, 70–75, 77, 79–80, 255

Boer Prisoners 35, 73

and desire for independence 75–76

Voluntary Ambulance Corps 61, 67, 78, 255–256

Anglo-Zulu War 30

Angola 86, 98, 101

anti-apartheid struggle 3–4, 160, 164, 170

anti-colonialism 3–4, 9, 24, 42, 47, 98–99

anti-communism 198, 217

anti-imperialism 106, 120, 133

anti-militarism 79 see also pacifis...