Internal Frontiers
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Internal Frontiers
African Nationalism and the Indian Diaspora in Twentieth-Century South Africa
Jon Soske
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Portions of chapter two appeared in the author’s “Unravelling the 1947 ‘Doctors’ Pact: Race, Metonymy, and the Evasions of Nationalist History,” in One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating Liberation Histories Today, edited by Arianna Lissoni et al. Copyright © 2012 by Wits University Press. Used by permission of the publisher.
Portions of chapter two appeared in the author’s “Navigation Difference: Gender, Miscegenation, and Indian Domestic Space in Twentieth Century Durban,” in Eyes Across the Water: Navigating the Indian Ocean, edited by Pamila Gupta, Isabel Hofmeyr, and Michael Pearson. Copyright © 2010 by UNISA Press. Used by permission of the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Soske, Jon, 1977- author.
Title: Internal frontiers : African nationalism and the Indian diaspora in twentieth-century South Africa / Jon Soske.
Other titles: New African histories series.
Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017. | Series: New African histories | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017036213| ISBN 9780821422830 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821422847 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821446102 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: South Africa--History--20th century. | South Africa--Politics and government--20th century. | East Indians--South Africa. | East Indian diaspora. | South Africa--Ethnic relations.
Classification: LCC DT1924 .S67 2017 | DDC 968.05--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017036213
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