Gandhi, Smuts and Race in the British Empire (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Pen & Sword History
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2017
Authors:	Peter Baxter
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-4738-9621-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-4738-9621-5
Barcode:	9781473896215

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