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Title: | A case of 'strategic ethnicity'? The Natal Indian Congress in the 1970s |
Authors: | Vahed, Goolam Desai, Ashwin |
Year: | 2014 |
Periodical: | African Historical Review (ISSN 1753-2531) |
Volume: | 46 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 22-47 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | Natal Indian Congress Indians ethnic relations political history 1970-1979 |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2014.911436 |
Abstract: | This article focuses on the revival of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in South Africa in 1971, in the context of what is retrospectively known as the 'Durban moment'. The early 1970s witnessed the emergence of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) as well as a resurgence of working class collective action that was to form the embryo of the independent labour movement later in the decade. The article examines the debates surrounding the revival of the NIC, in particular whether this reinforced an exclusive ethnic identity while dampening broader non-racial responses, and whether and how the NIC's revival impacted on debates about participation in government-created structures such as the South African Indian Council (SAIC). Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |