...Surendra Bhana © 1997: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1997 Indianness Reconfigured, 1944-1960: The Natal Indian Congress in South Afiica Surendra Bhana Founded in 1894 by Mohandas K. Gandhi...

... Trade Union Activities in Jamaica . London: Macmillan. Hart , Richard . 1982 . “Trade Unionism in the English-speaking Caribbean: The Formative Years and the Caribbean Labour Congress,” in Susan Craig, ed., Contemporary Caribbean: A Sociological Reader , Vol. 2 , pp. 59 –96. Maracas: Susan...

... National Congress (1975-1985) Phil Eidelberg While a considerable amount of literature has been as a factor in helping transform the ANC into a move- written about the emergence of the contemporary ment attuned less specifically to the aspirations of or- African...

... material struggle over urban space. In particular, it considers the writings of the South Asian scholar and activist Abul Kalam Azad, a major figure in the Indian Khilafat movement and the Indian National Congress, who was simultaneously a critic of the nation form and communalism (on the basis of...

...Arvind Elangovan The Government of India Act, 1935, is often discussed for Britain's imperial intent in holding India to the empire and the Indian nationalists'—especially the Congress's—critique of the act. In this essay, by focusing on the prominent but little-known bureaucrat Sir Benegal Narsing...

...Yasmin Saikia The connections among anticolonial nationalism, internationalism, and cosmopolitanism in the early twentieth century expand our understanding of the Indian freedom movement in new directions, beyond the activities and leadership of the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League...

... the Indian National Congress at Karachi in 1931. A key moment in anticolonial thought, the resolution was many things: an uneasy fusion of ideologies to assuage a range of divergent political interests; a maneuver to prevent another split of the nationalist movement into radical and moderate factions...

... part of the colonial state was not coincidence, but rather a maneuver designed to construct the LAI, an international anti-imperialist institution based in Berlin, as anathema to the anticolonial nationalist movement led by Nehru and other leaders of the Indian National Congress (INC). Rather than...

...Christopher Pinney Pinney’s essay explores, in the context of both colonized and contemporary India, Ariella Azoulay’s argument about the prophetic nature of photographic citizenship. The use of photographs in a number of key Indian National Congress reports reveals the destabilizing potential of...

... landscape more dramatically than the climate for the growth of the politics of communal- current crystallization of political contestation in ism. At the same time it is also important to note terms of BJP versus non-BJP, rather than Congress that the BJP could not have capitalized on these versus...

...: 1947-1960 aspects of Gandhi's social vision, his ethical With Independence the new Congress socialism attracted many. regime began implementation of the The question faced by Gandhi and the Gandhian-socialist perspective. For Indian...

... caste social reformers and Congress nationalists in Maharashtra; and the Indian mill owners of Bombay, Remain the slaves of no one, take pride in freedom, who had become leading financiers of the Congress and Give your life as sacrifice for this work of truth the nationalist movement. These...

...'s, has Muslims in villages around Bhivandi. enjoyed the support of the ruling Congress. Its very birth, it Also, in its teething days it mainly drew its strength is alleged, was patronized by Shri S.K. Patil, the then from the Bombay underworld. Very few middle class ele- Congress boss...

... secularism. The outward manifestation of this phe- the Muslim community in India. The Janata Dal, nomenon was the erosion of the Congress the Bahujan Samaj Party, the Samajwadi Janata monopoly of state power in an ever-growing Party are all groupings of community and caste measure since the late...

..., 1923-1925 . Delhi : People’s Publishing House , 1974 . Bing Harold F. “ British Youth and India .” In Young Liberator 1 ( 1929 ): 276 – 80 . Birla G. D. [Ghanshyam Das] . The Path to Prosperity . Bombay : Eastern Economist , 1949 . Bose Subhas Chandra . Congress...

... a racially-divided tional Congress and the South African Communist working class, emerging black national and liberation organizations, international socialist politics, and party. strategies of alliance...

... Development Political and ofSocial Aspects Revolution: the since Libya of Deeb Marius with coauthor the is Deeb Program. Omani the of director where shewas D.C., Washington, in University American and Journal East Middle The of editor the as served She has Congress. of...

...-circulated regional newspaper, and Adivasis in Gujarat. He refers to Machchis and lectures at colleges and universities. Political lead- Kharvas, traditionally fisher-folk and sailors, as Sa- ers of the Congress and the BJP adore him. His garputra (sons of the sea), Adivasis or tribals as mission...

... leaders of minority groups The specific “Indianness” of this notion of and appointing them to highly visible public offices. secularism is not merely recognized but deliberately This is the strategy practised by the Congress and now emphasized in contrast to the European notion: if in...

... ot17 oiiso etBengal West of Politics Post-1977 the in Federalism Indian in Discrimination of Issue The olto oenetldb h omns at fIndia Congress. of Bangla called Party Congress the Communist of faction the a anti-Congress and by (Marxist) short-lived a led basically government was coalition...