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Gandhi, Smuts and race in the British Empire : of passive and violent resistance / Peter Baxter.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Baxter, Peter (Botanist), author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
Gandhi.
Smuts, Jan Christiaan, 1870-1950.
Smuts, Jan Christiaan.
Great Britain--Colonies.
Great Britain.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations
Place of Publication:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire, [England] : Pen & Sword History, 2017.
Summary:
Towards the end of 1906, a meeting took place between two emerging giants of the age, Mohandas K. Gandhi and General Jan Christian Smuts. United under the same empire, but separated by distance and culture, Smuts was born in the Cape Colony, and Gandhi in Porbandar, a duchy of the Indian province of Gujarat. Both, however, went on to study law in Britain, and while developing a great admiration for the institutions of empire, each man also suffered his own particular crisis of faith. From their widely dispersed origins, Gandhi and Smuts collided over the issue of race and equality in a turbulent province of the empire, each attempting to hold the British to their stated ideals. This insightful book explores attitudes to race, and belonging, in an age when the English speaking peoples straddled the globe, and sought to impose on all of their subject races, basking under the radiance of Britannia, a common ideal of parity, equal opportunity and free movement.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Meeting
ch. 2 Smuts's South Africa
ch. 3 Gandhi's South Africa
ch. 4 Equal Rights for all Civilized Men
ch. 5 Influence
ch. 6 A Changing World
ch. 7 The Asiatic Problem
ch. 8 Protest
ch. 9 The Green Pamphlet
ch. 10 The Imperial Factor in South Africa
ch. 11 The Colossus
ch. 12 God's People
ch. 13 The Great Betrayal
ch. 14 The Disposition of God
ch. 15 Of Passive and Violent Resistance
ch. 16 Peace
ch. 17 Transitions
ch. 18 Fear and Labour
ch. 19 A New Horizon
ch. 20 Teach the Natives a Lesson
ch. 21 The African Man
ch. 22 The Black Act
ch. 23 A Meeting of Minds
ch. 24 Satyagraha
ch. 25 A House Divided
ch. 26 The New South Africa
ch. 27 The Mahatma
ch. 28 Labour Imperium
ch. 29 Women and Children First
ch. 30 Denouement
ch. 31 An Omission of Inquiry.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 22, 2017).
ISBN:
9781473896246
147389624X
9781473896239
1473896231
9781473896222
1473896223

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