South Asia in motion

The South African Gandhi focuses on Gandhi's first leadership experiences and the complicated man they reveal--a man who actually supported the British Empire. Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed unveil a man who, throughout his stay on African soil, stayed true to Empire while showing a disdain for Africans. For Gandhi, whites and Indians were bonded by an Aryan bloodline that had no place for the African. Gandhi's racism was matched by his class prejudice towards the Indian indentured. He persistently claimed that they were ignorant and needed his leadership, and he wrote their resistances and compromises in surviving a brutal labor regime out of history. The South African Gandhi writes the indentured and working class back into history.;The remains of empire -- Brown over black -- The war within -- Truth as experiments -- Gandhi's lieutenants -- Shadow-boxing on the highveld -- The Bhambatha Rebellion -- The Black Act -- Union and its discontents -- Hind swaraj -- The moderate as messiah --[...]Stalemates and new openings -- Women on the march -- Border crossings -- The Rajah is coming -- Striking at the heart of cities -- The provisional agreement -- The adjudication -- Goodbye Mr. Gandhi -- Man of peace, man of war -- Between leaving and returning.