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A Fire That Blazed In The Ocean : Gandhi and The Poems of Satyagraha in South Africa, 1990-1911

A Fire That Blazed In The Ocean : Gandhi and The Poems of Satyagraha in South Africa, 1990-1911


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The Poems in this volume appeared in the Gujarati section of the Indian Opinion from 1909 and 1911, a newspaper edited by mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) while he was in South Africa. Most of them were composed by Indians in South Africa who took part in the satyagraha movement (1906-1914) or were close observers. A few came from poets in India. All the poems were printed in Gujarati even though some were originally in Urdu or Hindi. The two leading contributors were Sheik Mehtab and Ambaram Mangalgi Thaker.

The poems had a performative dimension since they were recited or sung at public gatherings as participatory texts. While Gandhi introduced the concept of satyagraha, it was the poets who presented it with an emotive appeal. They were among the first to recognize its value as a revolutionary concept; and declared its importance to the world through poems incorporating the cultural-literary motifs of their Indian heritage. They helped to sustain the movement by presenting satyagraha as a concept and a historical moment, and by drawing attention to the dynamic releationship between ideals and individual acts of heroism. Their poems are creative products of South Africa's history as well as a distinctive literary genre of an early Indian diaspora community. Gandhi's use of this resource adds a new dimension to understanding satyagraha as a movement and his role as a creative leader in South Africa, which prepared him for his later career in India.

 

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Emeritus Professor SURENDRA BHANA, born in India, received his education in South Africa, where his parents had migrated, and in the United States, where he obtained his Ph.D. He was Professor of History at the University of Durban-Westville in South Africa until 1987. He has since then relocated to the United States where he was affiliated to the University of Kansas (1988-2006). He has published widely as author, co-author, editor, and co-editor. Among them include: The Making of a Political Reformer: Gandhi in South Africa, 1893-1914 (2005); Dialogue of Two Friends, 1911 by An Indian (2004); Gandhi's Legacy (1997); Setting Down Roots: Indian Migrants in South Africa (1991); Indentured Indian Emigrants 1860-1902: A Study on Ships' Lists (1991); Essays on Indentured Indians in Natal (1991); Documentary History (1984); and United States and Puerto Rican Status Question (1975).

Neelima Shukla-Bhatt is an assistant professor in South Asia Studies at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA. Her teaching focuses on South Asian religions as well as the languages Hindi, Urdu, and Gujarati. She has Published articles on devotional poetry of Medieval India, Hindu women, and religion and media in the diaspora. She is currently working on a monograph on Gujarati saint-poet Narasinha Mehta. She writes poetry in Gujarati.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789380188133
  • Publisher: Bibliophile South Asia
  • Publisher Imprint: Promilla & Co., Publishers
  • Edition: 2
  • No of Pages: 213
  • ISBN-10: 9380188137
  • Publisher Date: 2011
  • Binding: HARDBACK
  • Language: ENGLISH

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