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social life in an Indian township in South Africa

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Princeton University Press
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Subjects

Social conditions, Religion, Race relations, East Indians, East indians, foreign countries, South africa, race relations, South africa, social conditions, South africa, religion, Durban (south africa), Post-apartheid era

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Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa), Durban (South Africa), Durban, South Africa
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Under the gaze: freedom and race after apartheid
Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa
Domesticity and cultural intimacy
Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition
Autonomy, freedom, and political speech
Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city
The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires
Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives
The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief
Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality".

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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305.891/41068455
Library of Congress
DT2405.D889 E3735 2012, DT2405.D889E3735, DT2405.D886 H233 2012

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL25061507M
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9780691152950, 9780691152967
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2011041406, 2012526789
OCLC/WorldCat
756377642

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