Dala, Zainab Priya

What Gandhi didn't see : being Indian in South Africa - New Delhi Speaking Tiger Publishing 2018 - 150p.

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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 ‘cane fields’ 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.





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Race relations--South Africa--Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948--Apartheid

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