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Colour, Class and Community - The Natal Indian Congress, 1971-1994 /

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...

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Autores principales: Desai, Ashwin (Autor), Vahed, Goolam H., 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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