Gandhi, Smuts & Race in the British Empire: Of Passive & Violent Resistance

Gandhi, Smuts & Race in the British Empire: Of Passive & Violent Resistance

by Peter Baxter
Gandhi, Smuts & Race in the British Empire: Of Passive & Violent Resistance

Gandhi, Smuts & Race in the British Empire: Of Passive & Violent Resistance

by Peter Baxter

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781473896239
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Limited
Publication date: 01/24/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 16 MB
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About the Author

Peter Baxter is an author, amateur historian and heritage travel guide. Born in Kenya and educated in Zimbabwe, he has lived and traveled over much of southern and central Africa. Peter lives in Oregon, USA. His interests include British Imperial history in Africa and the East Africa campaign of the First World War in particular. He is the author of Pen and Sword's Gandhi, Smuts and Race in the British Empire.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations 8

Introduction 9

Chapter 1 The Meeting 21

Chapter 2 Smuts's South Africa 26

Chapter 3 Gandhi's South Africa 37

Chapter 4 Equal Rights for all Civilized Men 53

Chapter 5 Influence 65

Chapter 6 A Changing World 71

Chapter 7 The Asiatic Problem 76

Chapter 8 Protest 84

Chapter 9 The Green Pamphlet 91

Chapter 10 The Imperial Factor in South Africa 95

Chapter 11 The Colossus 99

Chapter 12 God's People 105

Chapter 13 The Great Betrayal 116

Chapter 14 The Disposition of God 123

Chapter 15 Of Passive and Violent Resistance 131

Chapter 16 Peace 137

Chapter 17 Transitions 142

Chapter 18 Fear and Labour 149

Chapter 19 A New Horizon 161

Chapter 20 Teach the Natives a Lesson 169

Chapter 21 The African Man 181

Chapter 22 The Black Act 190

Chapter 23 A Meeting of Minds 199

Chapter 24 Satyagraha 204

Chapter 25 A House Divided 214

Chapter 26 The New South Africa 219

Chapter 27 The Mahatma 226

Chapter 28 Labour Imperium 232

Chapter 29 Women and Children First 241

Chapter 30 Denouement 245

Chapter 31 An Omission of Inquiry 252

Epilogue 255

Notes 262

Further Reading 273

Index 276

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