Inside Indian Indenture A South African Story 1860 1914 Second Edition by Ashwin Desai, Goolam Vahed ISBN 978-0796922441 0796922446

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ISBN 10:   0796922446

ISBN 13: 978-0796922441

Author: Ashwin Desai, Goolam Vahed

Many were filled with hopes as high as Mahjoub’s stars as they crossed the kala pani (the sea) making their way from India to Durban in southern Africa in the late 1800s. But dreams of a better life and the opportunity to save money and return to the village as ‘success stories’ were not to be for many who returned ‘home’ with less than they had started out with, and found that home was no longer the place they had left. Neither were they the same people. Caste had been transgressed, parents had died and spaces for reintegration closed as colonialism tightened its grip. Home for these wandering exiles was no more. “”Inside Indian Indenture”” is a timely and monumental work which makes a signal contribution to our understanding of South African Indian history. It tells a story about the many beginnings and multiple journeys that made up the indentured experience. The authors seek to trespass directly into the lives of the indentured themselves. They explore 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, skulduggery 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. To read this book is to enter their world, to meet real people in all their ambiguities and complexities as they danced the uncertain edge between improvisation and resignation, to know the dreams that fill the souls of wandering exiles. Not only does it substantially revise the contours of South African Indian historiography, it starts to weave these themes into the mainstream of Southern African studies. It also situates itself in comparative work on indenture especially in Fiji and Mauritius and extends this work by making the South African experience of indenture available to other scholars. (November 2010 is the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first ship of indentured Indians in South Africa)

Table of contents: 

I. GAMBLING-CLUBS AND HIGH PLAY

II. WITTY WOMEN AND PRETTY WOMEN

III. OLD LONDON COFFEE-HOUSES

IV. OLD M.P.S AND SOME OF THEIR SAYINGS

V. FAMOUS OLD ACTORS

VI. OLD JUDGES AND SOME OF THEIR SAYINGS

VII. SOME FAMOUS LONDON ACTRESSES

VIII. QUEER CLUBS OF FORMER DAYS

IX. CURIOUS STORIES OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE

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X. WITS AND BEAUX OF OLD LONDON SOCIETY

XI. LONDON SEEN THROUGH FOREIGN SPECTACLES

XII. OLD LONDON TAVERNS AND TEA-GARDENS

I. THE GALLERIED TAVERNS OF OLD LONDON

II. OLD LONDON TEA-GARDENS

XIII. WILLIAM PATERSON AND THE BANK OF ENGLAND

XIV. THE OLD DOCTORS

XV. THE LOST RIVERS OF LONDON

XVI. ROGUES ASSORTED

XVII. BARS AND BARRISTERS

XVIII. THE SUBLIME BEEFSTEAKERS AND THE KIT-KAT AND ROTA CLUBS

XIX. HAMPTON COURT PALACE AND ITS MASTERS

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