‘Between Two Fires’: Racial Populism, Indian Resistance and the Beginnings of Satyagraha in the Transvaal, 1902–06
| Autor: | Jeremy Martens |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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History
060101 anthropology White (horse) Satyagraha Resistance (psychoanalysis) 06 humanities and the arts Development 060104 history Power (social and political) Populism Politics Political economy Law Political Science and International Relations 0601 history and archaeology Administration (government) |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 44:622-648 |
| ISSN: | 1743-9329 0308-6534 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03086534.2016.1210252 |
| Popis: | In revisiting the historical circumstances leading up to the birth of satyagraha in the Transvaal in September 1906, this article seeks to place white popular protests against Asians within the same frame of analysis as Indian active nonviolence. In doing so it makes two interrelated arguments. First, I suggest that the evolution of satyagraha is better understood when examined in tandem with racial populism. Indian resistance to Transvaal laws was forged in a hostile, violent and racially charged environment. Gandhi and his followers were well aware of the power of white populism and its political influence over the Transvaal administration, and came to realise that some form of mass action of their own would be needed to counter this influence and achieve their political objectives. Second, I argue that it was the express intention of both white racial populists and the Gandhian resistance movement to exploit the competing imperial priorities of the Transvaal and British governments. The widespr... |
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