Mohamed Adhikari
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586217 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohamed Adhikari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohamed |
| FAMILY NAME | Adhikari |
| SIGNATURE | ADHIKARI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Burdened by race: Coloured identities in southern Africa
Since its emergence in the late 19th century, coloured identity has been pivotal to racial thinking in southern African societies. The nature of colouredness has always been a highly emotive and controversial issue because it embodies many of the racial antagonisms, ambiguities, and derogations prevalent in the subcontinent. Throughout their existence coloured communities have had to contend with the predicament of being marginal minorities stigm…
Civilian-Driven Violence and the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Societies
Genocide and Global and/or World History: Reflections
Soon after Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide” in Axis Rule in Occupied Europe in 1944, he began working on a world history of genocide to popularize his neologism.1 Correspondence with fundi
Europe’s First Settler Colonial Incursion into Africa: The Genocide of Aboriginal Canary Islanders
The annihilation of the aboriginal societies of the Canary archipelago, which consists of seven islands off the coast of southern Morocco and was populated by indigenes derived from Berber-speaking communities of north-west Africa, represents modern Europe’s first overseas settler colonial genocide. The process of social destruction, initiated by European slave raiders in the first half of the fourteenth century, was propelled to completion by ma…
Invariably genocide? When hunter-gatherers and commercial stock farmers clash
The five century long process of European overseas conquest included many instances of the extermination of Indigenous peoples. Where commercial stock farmers invaded the lands of hunter-gatherers conflict was particularly destructive, often resulting in a degree of dispossession and slaughter that destroyed the ability of these societies to reproduce themselves biologically or culturally. The frequency with which encounters of this kind resulted…
Genocide on Settler Frontiers
European colonial conquest included many instances of indigenous peoples being exterminated. Cases where invading commercial stock farmers clashed with hunter-gatherers were particularly destructive, often resulting in a degree of dispossession and slaughter that destroyed the ability of these societies to reproduce themselves. The experience of aboriginal peoples in the settler colonies of southern Africa, Australia, North America, and Latin Ame…
Genocide on Settler Frontiers: When Hunter-Gatherers and Commercial Stock Farmers Clash
Invariably genocide: When Hunter-Gatherers and Commercial Stock Farmers Clash
‘Killed for being in the way of the great land theft’: Civilian-driven settler genocides in California and Queensland
European settler colonialism was prone to exterminatory violence towards indigenous communities from its inception as the virtual extinction of native Canary Islanders by the end of the fifteenth c
The Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The extermination of the Cape San peoples
During the 18th and 19th centuries, Dutch-speaking pastoralists who infiltrated the Cape interior dispossessed its aboriginal inhabitants and damaged the environment with their destructive farming and hunting practices. In response to indigenous resistance, colonists formed armed, mounted militia units known as commandos with the express purpose of destroying San bands. Pervasive settler violence ensured the virtual extinction of the Cape San peo…
A total extinction confidently hoped for: The destruction of Cape San society under Dutch colonial rule, 1700–1795
San (Bushman) society in the Cape Colony was almost completely annihilated during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a result of land confiscation, massacre, forced labour and cultural suppression that accompanied colonial rule. Whereas similar obliterations of indigenous peoples in other parts of the world have resulted in major public controversies and heated debate amongst academics about the genocidal nature of these episodes, in Sout…
Burdened By Race: Coloured Identities in Southern Africa
On more than one occasion, upon hearing that I was editing a collection of essays, colleagues remarked that the task called for the arts of persuasion and coercion.Although both were used, it was largely cheerful cooperation that marked the compilation of this volume.This, together with ongoing friendly communication with contributors, helped make the production of this book a most gratifying experience.Despite its eclectic nature, there is never…
From Narratives of Miscegenation to Post-Modernist Re-Imagining: Toward a Historiography of Coloured Identity in South Africa
This article traces changing interpretations of the nature of Coloured identity and the history of the Coloured community in South Africa in both popular thinking as well as the academy. It explores some of the main contestations that have arisen between rival schools of thought, particularly their stance on the popular perception that Colouredness is an inherent racial condition derived from miscegenation. This essay identifies four distinct par…
‘God Made the White Man, God Made the Black Man…’: Popular Racial Stereotyping of Coloured People in Apartheid South Africa
Extracted from text ... 1. See, for example, W.M. MacMillan, The Cape Colour Question: A Historical Survey (Cape Town, 1968; originally London, 1927)); H.P. Cruse, Die Opheffing van die Kleurlingbevolking: Deel I Aanvangsjare, 1652-1795 (Stellenbosch, 1947); J.S. Marais, The Cape Coloured People, 1652-1937 (Johannesburg, 1968; originally London, 1939); A.J. Venter, Coloured: A Profile of Two Million South Africans (Cape Town, 1974). Even those wo…
Hope, Fear, Shame, Frustration: Continuity and Change in the Expression of Coloured Identity in White Supremacist South Africa, 1910-1994
This article seeks to explain the basic impulses behind coloured exclusivity in white supremacist South Africa and to elaborate on continuity and change in the processes of coloured self-definition by identifying the core attributes of coloured identity and outlining the ways in which they operated to reinforce and reproduce that identity. The central argument is that coloured identity is better understood not as having evolved through a series o…
Contending Approaches to Coloured Identity and the History of the Coloured People of South Africa
Ever since its emergence in the late nineteenth century Coloured identity, its nature and the implications it holds for southern African society, have been the subject of ideological and political contestation. Because contending and changing perceptions of Colouredness imply different interpretations of their past there have been a wide range of approaches to the history of the Coloured people in both popular thinking and the academy. Also, cont…
Fiercely Non-Racial? Discourses and Politics of Race in the Non-European Unity Movement, 1943-70
The Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM), founded in Bloemfontein in December 1943 as an organisation for national liberation by activists within the ‘Trotskyist’ tradition of the South African left, has built up a formidable reputation for its uncompromising stand on non-racism. Its puritanical insistence on the principle of non-racism has become one of the hallmarks of its discourse and political philosophy. The current literature accepts this no…
Peasant and Proletarian: A history of the African Peoples' Democratic Union of Southern Africa
Not Black Enough’: Changing Expressions of Coloured Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa
M. Adhikari, ‘Hope, Fear, Shame, Frustration: Continuity and Change in the Expression of Coloured Identity in White Supremacist South Africa, 1910-1994’ (PhD thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002). The central argument of the dissertation is that Coloured identity is better understood not as having evolved through a series of transformations during this period, as conventional historical thinking would have it, but to have remained surprisingbly …
From Manenberg to Soweto: Race and coloured identity in the black consciousness poetry of James Matthews
The Black Consciousness poetry of James Matthews, internationally recognised Coloured writer from the Cape Flats, reflects the growing popularisation amongst politicised Coloured people during the 1970s of the idea that racial distinctions in general, and Coloured identity in particular, had historically been used by the white supremacist establishment to divide and rule the black majority. This insight, by no means novel, provided the main thrus…
Dr. Abdurahman: A Biographical Memoir
Ambiguity, Assimilationism and Anglophilism in South Africa's Coloured Community: The Case of Piet Uithalder's Satirical Writings, 1909–1922
(2002). Ambiguity, Assimilationism and Anglophilism in South Africa's Coloured Community: The Case of Piet Uithalder's Satirical Writings, 1909–1922. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 115-131
South Africa's Resistance Press: Alternative Voices in the Last Generation under Apartheid
South Africa's Resistance Press is a collection of essays celebrating the contributions of scores of newspapers, newsletters, and magazines that confronted the state in the generation after 1960. These publications contributed in no small measure to reviving a mass movement inside South Africa that would finally bring an end to apartheid. This marginalized press had an impact on its audience that cannot be measured in terms of the small number of…
South Africa's Resistance Press: Alternative Voices in the Last Generation under Apartheid
Liberals Against Apartheid: A History of the Liberal Party of South Africa, 1953-1968 , by Randolph Vigne
Burdened By Race: Coloured Identities in Southern Africa
On more than one occasion, upon hearing that I was editing a collection of essays, colleagues remarked that the task called for the arts of persuasion and coercion.Although both were used, it was largely cheerful cooperation that marked the compilation of this volume.This, together with ongoing friendly communication with contributors, helped make the production of this book a most gratifying experience.Despite its eclectic nature, there is never…
Hope, Fear, Shame, Frustration: Continuity and Change in the Expression of Coloured Identity in White Supremacist South Africa, 1910-1994
This article seeks to explain the basic impulses behind coloured exclusivity in white supremacist South Africa and to elaborate on continuity and change in the processes of coloured self-definition by identifying the core attributes of coloured identity and outlining the ways in which they operated to reinforce and reproduce that identity. The central argument is that coloured identity is better understood not as having evolved through a series o…
A total extinction confidently hoped for: The destruction of Cape San society under Dutch colonial rule, 1700–1795
San (Bushman) society in the Cape Colony was almost completely annihilated during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a result of land confiscation, massacre, forced labour and cultural suppression that accompanied colonial rule. Whereas similar obliterations of indigenous peoples in other parts of the world have resulted in major public controversies and heated debate amongst academics about the genocidal nature of these episodes, in Sout…
The Sons of Ham: Slavery and the Making of Coloured Identity
South Africa's Resistance Press: Alternative Voices in the Last Generation under Apartheid
Europe’s First Settler Colonial Incursion into Africa: The Genocide of Aboriginal Canary Islanders
The annihilation of the aboriginal societies of the Canary archipelago, which consists of seven islands off the coast of southern Morocco and was populated by indigenes derived from Berber-speaking communities of north-west Africa, represents modern Europe’s first overseas settler colonial genocide. The process of social destruction, initiated by European slave raiders in the first half of the fourteenth century, was propelled to completion by ma…
From Narratives of Miscegenation to Post-Modernist Re-Imagining: Toward a Historiography of Coloured Identity in South Africa
This article traces changing interpretations of the nature of Coloured identity and the history of the Coloured community in South Africa in both popular thinking as well as the academy. It explores some of the main contestations that have arisen between rival schools of thought, particularly their stance on the popular perception that Colouredness is an inherent racial condition derived from miscegenation. This essay identifies four distinct par…
Contending Approaches to Coloured Identity and the History of the Coloured People of South Africa
Ever since its emergence in the late nineteenth century Coloured identity, its nature and the implications it holds for southern African society, have been the subject of ideological and political contestation. Because contending and changing perceptions of Colouredness imply different interpretations of their past there have been a wide range of approaches to the history of the Coloured people in both popular thinking and the academy. Also, cont…
Not Black Enough’: Changing Expressions of Coloured Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa
M. Adhikari, ‘Hope, Fear, Shame, Frustration: Continuity and Change in the Expression of Coloured Identity in White Supremacist South Africa, 1910-1994’ (PhD thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002). The central argument of the dissertation is that Coloured identity is better understood not as having evolved through a series of transformations during this period, as conventional historical thinking would have it, but to have remained surprisingbly …
The Product of Civilization in Its Most Repellent Manifestation’: Ambiguities in the Racial Perceptions of the Apo ( African Political Organization ), 1909–23
Historical writing on the coloured community of South Africa has tended to accept coloured identity as given and to portray it as fixed. The failure to take cognizance of the fluidity of coloured self-definition and the ambiguities inherent to the process has resulted in South African historiography presenting an over-simplified image of the phenomenon. The problem stems partly from an almost exclusive focus on coloured protest politics which has…
From Manenberg to Soweto: Race and coloured identity in the black consciousness poetry of James Matthews
The Black Consciousness poetry of James Matthews, internationally recognised Coloured writer from the Cape Flats, reflects the growing popularisation amongst politicised Coloured people during the 1970s of the idea that racial distinctions in general, and Coloured identity in particular, had historically been used by the white supremacist establishment to divide and rule the black majority. This insight, by no means novel, provided the main thrus…
Civilian-Driven Violence and the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Societies
Fiercely Non-Racial? Discourses and Politics of Race in the Non-European Unity Movement, 1943-70
The Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM), founded in Bloemfontein in December 1943 as an organisation for national liberation by activists within the ‘Trotskyist’ tradition of the South African left, has built up a formidable reputation for its uncompromising stand on non-racism. Its puritanical insistence on the principle of non-racism has become one of the hallmarks of its discourse and political philosophy. The current literature accepts this no…
Peasant and Proletarian: A history of the African Peoples' Democratic Union of Southern Africa
Ambiguity, Assimilationism and Anglophilism in South Africa's Coloured Community: The Case of Piet Uithalder's Satirical Writings, 1909–1922
(2002). Ambiguity, Assimilationism and Anglophilism in South Africa's Coloured Community: The Case of Piet Uithalder's Satirical Writings, 1909–1922. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 115-131
Blinded by Anger: Coloured Experience under Apartheid
(1996). Blinded by Anger: Coloured Experience under Apartheid. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 169-182
Coloured Identity and the Politics of Coloured Education: The Origin of the Teachers' League of South Africa
Mohamed Adhikari, Coloured Identity and the Politics of Coloured Education: The Origin of the Teachers' League of South Africa, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1 (1994), pp. 101-126
Responses to Marginality: Twentieth-Century Coloured Politics
Responses to Marginality: Twentieth-Century Coloured Politics
Between Black and White: The History of Coloured Politics in South Africa
(1991). Between Black and White: The History of Coloured Politics in South Africa. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des etudes africaines: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 106-110
The Sons of Ham: Slavery and the Making of Coloured Identity
Lives in between: Assimilation and Marginality in Austria, Brazil and West Africa, 1780-1945
Coloured Identity and the Politics of Coloured Education: The Origin of the Teachers' League of South Africa
Mohamed Adhikari, Coloured Identity and the Politics of Coloured Education: The Origin of the Teachers' League of South Africa, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1 (1994), pp. 101-126
Blinded by Anger: Coloured Experience under Apartheid
(1996). Blinded by Anger: Coloured Experience under Apartheid. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 169-182
The Product of Civilization in Its Most Repellent Manifestation’: Ambiguities in the Racial Perceptions of the Apo ( African Political Organization ), 1909–23
Historical writing on the coloured community of South Africa has tended to accept coloured identity as given and to portray it as fixed. The failure to take cognizance of the fluidity of coloured self-definition and the ambiguities inherent to the process has resulted in South African historiography presenting an over-simplified image of the phenomenon. The problem stems partly from an almost exclusive focus on coloured protest politics which has…
Out in the Cold: Academic Boycotts and the Isolation of South Africa
Straatpraatjes: Language, Politics and Popular Culture in Cape Town, 1909-1922
Educational Reform and the Transformation of Southern Africa
Preface Introduction Some Facts About Southern Africa Map of Southern Africa Southern Africa in Crisis: A Region in Need of Reform The Imperative of Educational Reform in a Historical Context The Purpose of Educational Reform in Southern Africa Prerequisites of Educational Reform Theory of Educational Reform in Contemporary Southern Africa Approaches to Educational Reform Results of Educational Reform Educational Reform and the Transformation of …
Liberals Against Apartheid: A History of the Liberal Party of South Africa, 1953-1968 , by Randolph Vigne
South Africa's Resistance Press: Alternative Voices in the Last Generation under Apartheid
South Africa's Resistance Press is a collection of essays celebrating the contributions of scores of newspapers, newsletters, and magazines that confronted the state in the generation after 1960. These publications contributed in no small measure to reviving a mass movement inside South Africa that would finally bring an end to apartheid. This marginalized press had an impact on its audience that cannot be measured in terms of the small number of…
South Africa's Resistance Press: Alternative Voices in the Last Generation under Apartheid
Dr. Abdurahman: A Biographical Memoir
Ambiguity, Assimilationism and Anglophilism in South Africa's Coloured Community: The Case of Piet Uithalder's Satirical Writings, 1909–1922
(2002). Ambiguity, Assimilationism and Anglophilism in South Africa's Coloured Community: The Case of Piet Uithalder's Satirical Writings, 1909–1922. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 115-131
From Manenberg to Soweto: Race and coloured identity in the black consciousness poetry of James Matthews
The Black Consciousness poetry of James Matthews, internationally recognised Coloured writer from the Cape Flats, reflects the growing popularisation amongst politicised Coloured people during the 1970s of the idea that racial distinctions in general, and Coloured identity in particular, had historically been used by the white supremacist establishment to divide and rule the black majority. This insight, by no means novel, provided the main thrus…
Peasant and Proletarian: A history of the African Peoples' Democratic Union of Southern Africa
Not Black Enough’: Changing Expressions of Coloured Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa
M. Adhikari, ‘Hope, Fear, Shame, Frustration: Continuity and Change in the Expression of Coloured Identity in White Supremacist South Africa, 1910-1994’ (PhD thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002). The central argument of the dissertation is that Coloured identity is better understood not as having evolved through a series of transformations during this period, as conventional historical thinking would have it, but to have remained surprisingbly …
Contending Approaches to Coloured Identity and the History of the Coloured People of South Africa
Ever since its emergence in the late nineteenth century Coloured identity, its nature and the implications it holds for southern African society, have been the subject of ideological and political contestation. Because contending and changing perceptions of Colouredness imply different interpretations of their past there have been a wide range of approaches to the history of the Coloured people in both popular thinking and the academy. Also, cont…
Fiercely Non-Racial? Discourses and Politics of Race in the Non-European Unity Movement, 1943-70
The Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM), founded in Bloemfontein in December 1943 as an organisation for national liberation by activists within the ‘Trotskyist’ tradition of the South African left, has built up a formidable reputation for its uncompromising stand on non-racism. Its puritanical insistence on the principle of non-racism has become one of the hallmarks of its discourse and political philosophy. The current literature accepts this no…
‘God Made the White Man, God Made the Black Man…’: Popular Racial Stereotyping of Coloured People in Apartheid South Africa
Extracted from text ... 1. See, for example, W.M. MacMillan, The Cape Colour Question: A Historical Survey (Cape Town, 1968; originally London, 1927)); H.P. Cruse, Die Opheffing van die Kleurlingbevolking: Deel I Aanvangsjare, 1652-1795 (Stellenbosch, 1947); J.S. Marais, The Cape Coloured People, 1652-1937 (Johannesburg, 1968; originally London, 1939); A.J. Venter, Coloured: A Profile of Two Million South Africans (Cape Town, 1974). Even those wo…
Hope, Fear, Shame, Frustration: Continuity and Change in the Expression of Coloured Identity in White Supremacist South Africa, 1910-1994
This article seeks to explain the basic impulses behind coloured exclusivity in white supremacist South Africa and to elaborate on continuity and change in the processes of coloured self-definition by identifying the core attributes of coloured identity and outlining the ways in which they operated to reinforce and reproduce that identity. The central argument is that coloured identity is better understood not as having evolved through a series o…
From Narratives of Miscegenation to Post-Modernist Re-Imagining: Toward a Historiography of Coloured Identity in South Africa
This article traces changing interpretations of the nature of Coloured identity and the history of the Coloured community in South Africa in both popular thinking as well as the academy. It explores some of the main contestations that have arisen between rival schools of thought, particularly their stance on the popular perception that Colouredness is an inherent racial condition derived from miscegenation. This essay identifies four distinct par…
Burdened By Race: Coloured Identities in Southern Africa
On more than one occasion, upon hearing that I was editing a collection of essays, colleagues remarked that the task called for the arts of persuasion and coercion.Although both were used, it was largely cheerful cooperation that marked the compilation of this volume.This, together with ongoing friendly communication with contributors, helped make the production of this book a most gratifying experience.Despite its eclectic nature, there is never…
A total extinction confidently hoped for: The destruction of Cape San society under Dutch colonial rule, 1700–1795
San (Bushman) society in the Cape Colony was almost completely annihilated during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a result of land confiscation, massacre, forced labour and cultural suppression that accompanied colonial rule. Whereas similar obliterations of indigenous peoples in other parts of the world have resulted in major public controversies and heated debate amongst academics about the genocidal nature of these episodes, in Sout…
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