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Internal frontiers - African nationalism and the IndianDiaspora in Twentieth-Century South Africa (Paperback) Jon Soske
In this ambitious new history of the antiapartheidstruggle, Jon Soske places India and the Indian diaspora at the center of theAfrican National Congress's development of an inclusive philosophy ofnationalism. Even as Indian independence provided black South Africanintellectuals with new models of conceptualizing sovereignty, debates over theplace of the Indian diaspora in Africa forced a reconsideration of SouthAfrica's internal and external boundaries, not least by the ANC thinkers-led byAlbert Luthuli- centered in Durban. There, they developed a new philosophy ofnationhood that affirmed South Africa's simultaneously heterogeneous andfundamentally African character. In describing this process, Soske makes amajor contribution to postcolonial and Indian Ocean studies and charts new waysof writing about African nationalism.