Constructions of Community and Identity Among Indians in Colonial Natal, 1860–1910

The Role of the Muharram Festival

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8981288
AutoresG Vahed (0000-0002-6038-2616, Durban University of Technology, autor de correspondencia)
Año2002
Volumen43
Número1
Páginas77-93
Fecha de publicación2002-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of African History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0021853702008010
PMID20373553
OpenAlexW2103533542
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14

This article is concerned with the historical construction of communities, cultures and identities in colonial Natal, in this case an Indian grouping that emerged from the heterogeneous collection of indentured workers imported between 1860 and 1911. Despite the difficulties of indenture, Indians set about re-establishing their culture and religion in Durban. The most visible and public expression of ritual was the festival of Muhurram , which played an important role in forging a pan-Indian ‘Indianness’ within a white and African colonial society. This was significant when one considers that the nationalist movement was in its formative stages and there was no national identity when indentured workers had left India

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