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Contemporary India and South Africa : legacies, identities, dilemmas
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Contemporary India and South Africa : legacies, identities, dilemmas

Author: Sujata Patel; Tina Uys
Publisher: New Delhi : Routledge, 2012.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Papers presented at an international conference held in October 2010.
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sujata Patel; Tina Uys
ISBN: 9780415522991 0415522994
OCLC Number: 758394357
Description: x, 330 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. Legacies and New Identities: Contemporary India and South Africa Compared / Sujata Patel and Tina Uys ----
Part I. Migration, Indenture and Identities: Being Indian in South Africa. 2. Indenture and Indianness in South Africa: 1860-1913 / Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed ---
3. Tracing the Journey of South African Indian Women from 1860 / Mariam Seedat-Khan ---
4. In a Faraway Sugarcane Field: Imagining Indentured Labour in Colonial India / V. Geetha ---
5. 'Made in India. Proudly South African': Commemorating 150 years of Indian Presence in South Africa / Rehana Vally ---
6. Commemoration, Celebration, Commiseration? 150th Anniversary of Indentured Labourers in South Africa / Brij Maharaj ---
7. The Legacy of Indentured Indians in South Africa: The Politics of Saving the Early Morning Market in Durban / Lubna Nadvi ---
8. Indenture and Diasporic Integration: Historical Anthropology of India-South Africa Interface / Ravindra K. Jain ----
Part II. The Contemporary Contradictions of Nation States: Democracy, Education and Environment. 9. A Better Life For All: The Post-1994 South African Journey in the Second Decade of the New Millennium / Janis Grobbelaar ---
10. South Africa: Conceptualising a Politics of Human-Oriented Development / Adam Habib ---
11. Indian Democracy in Search of a Democratic State: Socio-Political Challenges and State Responses in Contemporary India / Ujjwal Singh ---
12. Reproduction, Contradiction, Contestation and the Struggle for a Just Education in India / Padma Velaskar ---
13. Reflexive Education to Re-envision Modernity / Anita Rampal ---
14. The Place and Role of Higher Education in an Evolving South African Democracy / Derek van der Merwe ---
15. Urban Dreams and Realities / Kalpana Sharma ---
16. Contesting Conservation: Nature, Politics and History in Contemporary India / Mahesh Rangarajan ----
Part III. Relating to Each Other as Regional Nation-States. 17. Globalising World and the Changing Dimensions of Indo-South African Ties / Rajen Harshe ---
18. IBSA in the Foreign Policy of a Rising India / Priya Chacko ---
19. Scientific, Environmental and Agricultural Collaboration within the IBSA Dialogue Forum, 2003-2010 / David Fig.
Responsibility: editors Sujata Patel, Tina Uys.

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