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Positions the history and inner workings of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) against the canvas of the major political developments in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s up to the first democratic elections in 1994
Following a hiatus in the 1960s, the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in South Africa was revived in 1971. In fascinating detail,
Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed bring the inner workings of the NIC to life against the canvas of major political developments in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s, and up to the first democratic elections in 1994.
The NIC was relaunched during the rise of the Black Consciousness Movement, which attracted a following among Indian university students, and whose invocation of Indians as Black led to a major debate about ethnic organisations such as the NIC. This debate persisted in the 1980s with the rise of the United Democratic Front and its commitment to non-racialism. The NIC was central to other major debates of the period, most significantly the lines drawn between boycotting and participating in government-created structures such as the Tri-Cameral Parliament. Despite threats of banning and incarceration, the NIC kept attracting recruits who encouraged the development of community organisations, such as students radicalised by the 1980s education boycotts and civic protests. Colour, Class and Community, The Natal Indian Congress, 1971—1994 details how some members of the NIC played dual roles, as members of a legal organisation and as allies of the African National Congress' underground armed struggle.
Drawing on varied sources, including oral interviews, newspaper reports, and minutes of organisational meetings, this in-depth study tells a largely untold history, challenging existing narratives around Indian 'cabalism', and bringing the African and Indian political story into present debates about race, class and nation.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Repression, Revelation and Resurrection: The Revival of the NIC
Chapter 2 Black Consciousness and the Challenge to the 'I' in the NIC
Chapter 3 Between Principle and Pragmatism: Debates over the SAIC, 1971-1978
Chapter 4 Changing Geographies and New Terrains of Struggle
Chapter 5 Class(rooms) of Dissent: Education Boycotts and Democratic Trade Unions, 1976-1985
Chapter 6 Lenin and the Duma Come to Durban: Reigniting the Participation Debate
Chapter 7 The Anti-SAIC Campaign of 1981: Prefigurative Politics?
Chapter 8 Botha's 1984 and the Rise of the UDF
Chapter 9 Letters from Near and Afar: The Consulate Six
Chapter 10 Inanda, Inkatha and Insurrection: 1985
Chapter 11 Building Up Steam: Operation Vula and Local Networks 191
Chapter 12 Between Fact and Factions: The 1987 Conference 209
Chapter 13 'Caught With Our Pants Down': The NIC and the Crumbling of Apartheid 1988-1990
Chapter 14 Snapping the Strings of the UDF
Chapter 15 Digging Their Own Grave: Debating the Future of the NIC
Chapter 16 The Ballot Box, 1994: A Punch in the Gut?
Chapter 17 Between Rajbansi's 'Ethnic Guitar' and the String of the ANC Party List
Conclusion: A Spoke in the Wheel
Notes
Bibliography
Index
