From Diaspora to Third Worldism and the United Nations
India and the Politics of Decolonizing Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4162103 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerard Mccann (0000-0003-0509-319X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 218 |
| Issue | suppl 8 |
| Pages | 258-280 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Past & Present (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-2746 • E-ISSN: 1477-464X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pastj/gts043 |
| OpenAlex | W2315498016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
The proclamation of India’s ‘tryst with destiny’ in 1947 was hailed as a watershed in expanding the possibilities for liberation in the colonized world. This article will assess the changing roles of India in the decolonization process of one such colonized region—Africa. Central to the tales of Indo-African brotherhood that characterize writing on the topic stands one behemoth of the Indian independence movement, Mohandas Gandhi, who famously began his political career in South Africa. In India, this experience was rightfully woven into the broader hagiography of his fight for equality and philosophical transformation into the ‘Mahatma’. In so doing, however, certain anachronistic celebrations of his commitment to African rights have on occasion formed part of the India-Africa narrative. It should not be forgotten that the young lawyer was specifically concerned with Indian rights in Transvaal and Natal, as well as the liminal place of South Africa’s Indians within burgeoning concepts of Indian nationhood. 2 Indeed, the special position of his infamous night at Pietermaritzburg station in 1893 within the story of satyagraha arguably masks the opinions of the young man on Africans and racial hierarchy. Nevertheless, as in India, so too in Africa did the heroism of the Mahatma live on during the heady days of the freedom struggle. Thus, while many African commentators understandably did not draw directly on Gandhi’s specific African experiences in discussion of Indian roles in African liberation, leaders such as Kwame Nkrumah did pay hearty tribute to the influence of Gandhism on their own protest. 3
Decolonization · Destiny (ISS module) · Diaspora · Independence (probability theory) · Manifest destiny · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society · South African History and Culture
Special issue introduction
Where was the Afro in Afro-Asian Solidarity? Africa’s ‘Bandung Moment’ in 1950s Asia
Stirring Africa towards India
The British End of the British Empire
Where was the Afro in Afro-Asian Solidarity? Africa's 'Bandung Moment' in 1950s Asia
Britain, India, and the United Nations
The limits of solidarity
From ‘Natives’ to ‘Aborigines’
Cold War and Decolonisation
Contact, Communication, Imagination, and Strategies of Worldmaking
Prophetic Becoming
Waging peace
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2022 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |