TY  - BOOK
AU  - Desai, Ashwin 
AU  - Vahed, Goolam
TI  - The South African Gandhi: stretcher-bearer of empire
SN  - 9788189059736
U1  - 968.049092 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Navayana publishing
KW  - Race relations
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Mahatma Gandhi
KW  - East Indians - Politics and government
N1  - Table of contents:


1.The remains of empire
2.Brown over black
3.The war within
4.Truth as experiment
5 Gandhi's Lieutenants



N2  - In the pantheon of global liberation heroes, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. Leaders like Mandela have lauded him as being part of the epic battle to defeat the white regime and prepare the way for a non-racial country. A popular sentiment in South Africa goes: ‘India gave us Mohandas, and we returned him to you as Mahatma’.
Against this background, The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire unravels the complex story of a man who, throughout his stay on African soil (1893–1914), remained true to Empire while expressing disdain for Africans. For Gandhi, whites and Indians were bound by an Aryan bloodline that had no place for the African. His racism was matched by his class (and caste) prejudice towards the Indian indentured. He persistently claimed that they were ignorant and needed his leadership, and wrote their struggles out of history—struggles this book documents.


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