South Africa and India: Shaping the Global South (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781868145386)

An innovative book about the relationship between South Africa and India

South Africa's future is increasingly tied up with that of India. While trade and investment between the two countries is intensifying, they share long-standing historical ties and have much in common: apart from cricket, colonialism and Gandhi, both countries are important players in the global South. As India emerges as a major economic power, the need to understand these links becomes ever more pressing. Can the two countries enter balanced forms of exchange? What forms of transnational political community between these two regions have yet to be researched and understood? The first section of South Africa and India traces the range of historical connection between the two countries. The second section explores unconventional comparisons that offer rich ground on which to build original areas of study. This innovative book looks to a post-American world in which the global South will become ever more important. Within this context, the Indian Ocean arena itself and South Africa and India in particular move to the fore. The book's main contribution lies in the approaches and methods offered by its wide range of contributors for thinking about this set of circumstances.

Author: Isabel Hofmeyr, Michelle Williams
ISBN-10: 1868145387
ISBN-13: 9781868145386
Publisher: Wits University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2011
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.70d