A timely and monumental recollection, this consideration captures the crossing of the sea undertaken by immigrants from India in the late 1800s. Illustrating their travels from their home country to colonial South Africa, this narrative demonstrates the multiple beginnings that made up the indentured experience for these wandering exiles. The overview explores the terrain of the everyday by focusing on religious and cultural expressions, leisure activities, power relations on the plantations, the weapons of resistance, and forms of collaboration that were developed in conflicts with the colonial overlords. Fascinating accounts brimming with desire and tender mercies—as much as with oppression and exploitation—show that the indentured were as much agents as they were victims and silent witnesses, painting a clear portrait of both cooperation and discord between Indians and Africans. Revising the contours of South African Indian historiography, this investigation expertly weaves its themes into the mainstream of Southern African studies, highlighting an often overlooked minority community.

Inside Indian Indenture: A South African Story, 1860–1914

History

Desai, Ashwin

Vahed, Goolam

Africa

HSRC Press

<p>For decades, South Africans aspiring to make the perfect biryani have turned to Indian Delights, the bestselling cookbook produced by Zuleikha Mayat and the Women’s Cultural Group. This is the story of the women behind the recipes, an account that brings to life the changing, gendered worlds of Muslim women in 20th-century Durban. Through a blend of scholarly rigor and compelling biography, this book reveals how a group of women who were formally excluded from both political and customary power nevertheless forged a vibrant citizenship and public life for themselves. In the midst of unfolding global and local transformation—apartheid, feminism, doctrinal shifts in Islam—the members of the Women’s Cultural Group were themselves agents of change, not only within the local communities that benefited from their proficient and varied labors, but also in the making of South African modernity.</p>

Gender, Modernity & Indian Delights: The Women's Cultural Group of Durban, 1954–2010

Waetjen, Thembisa

<p>The South African past is rich with stories of courage, initiative and endeavour which have never become history because they are the stories of those excluded from power. This book seeks to transform some of these stories into history: in this case into the history of cricket in Natal, hitherto dominated by the official and the privileged.</p>

Blacks in Whites: A Century of Cricket Struggles in KwaZulu-Natal

Padayachee, Vishnu

Reddy, Krish

University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press

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