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Colour, Class and Community - The Natal Indian Congress, 1971-1994
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Colour, Class and Community - The Natal Indian Congress, 1971-1994 / Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed.
ISBN
9781776147175
9781776147151
Publication
Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (394 pages): illustrations
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Summary
Following a hiatus in the 1960s, the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in South Africa was revived in 1971. In fascinating detail, Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed bring the inner workings of the NIC to life against the canvas of major political developments in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s, and up to the first democratic elections in 1994. The NIC was relaunched during the rise of the Black Consciousness Movement, which attracted a following among Indian university students, and whose invocation of Indians as Black led to a major debate about ethnic organisations such as the NIC. This debate persisted in the 1980s with the rise of the United Democratic Front and its commitment to non-racialism. The NIC was central to other major debates of the period, most significantly the lines drawn between boycotting and participating in government-created structures such as the Tri-Cameral Parliament. Despite threats of banning and incarceration, the NIC kept attracting recruits who encouraged the development of community organisations, such as students radicalised by the 1980s education boycotts and civic protests. Colour, Class and Community, The Natal Indian Congress, 1971--1994 details how some members of the NIC played dual roles, as members of a legal organisation and as allies of the African National Congress' underground armed struggle. Drawing on varied sources, including oral interviews, newspaper reports, and minutes of organisational meetings, this in-depth study tells a largely untold history, challenging existing narratives around Indian 'cabalism', and bringing the African and Indian political story into present debates about race, class and nation.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
Front Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Repression, Revelation and Resurrection: The Revival of the NIC
2 Black Consciousness and the Challenge to the 'I' in the NIC
3 Between Principle and Pragmatism: Debates over the SAIC, 1971-1978
4 Changing Geographies and New Terrains of Struggle
5 Class(rooms) of Dissent: Education Boycotts and Democratic Trade Unions, 1976-1985
6 Lenin and the Duma Come to Durban: Reigniting the Participation Debate
7 The Anti-SAIC Campaign of 1981: Prefigurative Politics?
8 Botha's 1984 and the Rise of the UDF
9 Letters from Near and Afar: The Consulate Six
10 Inanda, Inkatha and Insurrection: 1985
11 Building Up Steam: Operation Vula and Local Networks
12 Between Fact and Factions: The 1987 Conference
13 'Caught with Our Pants Down': The NIC and the Crumbling of Apartheid 1988-1990
14 Snapping the Strings of the UDF
15 Digging Their Own Grave: Debating the Future of the NIC
16 The Ballot Box, 1994: A Punch in the Gut?
17 Between Rajbansi's 'Ethnic Guitar' and the String of the ANC Party List
Conclusion: A Spoke in the Wheel
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Back Cover
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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