The other Satyagrahi
By: Reviewed by Rudrangshu Mukherjee
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BookPublisher: Biblio: A Review of Books Description: 30(1-3), Jan-Mar, 2025: p.7-7.
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Biblio: A Review of BooksSummary: )The other Mohan: In Britain's Indian ocean empire by Amrita Shah Fourth Estate/Harper collie publishers India, 2024 412 pp. Rs. 699 (PR))
ABSTRACT
Amrita Shah’s search lade to here discovery that Mohanal had been A Satyagrahi in South Africa in 1908 both Mohandas’s and Mohanlal’s sojourns to South Africa open up a world and a context which forms what Shah aptly calls “Britain’s Indian oceans “. The British empire was first and foremost was first and form sot a maritime one. The control of trade overseas made possible British dominance over large parts of Asian and Africa. British ships not only carried commodities but also ferried human beings. To Facilitate its own economic interests (read exploitation of their colonies), the British empire created a mobile world of labour. Capital and its human agents, the bourgeoisie, as Karl Mars noted in The communities manifesto, “most neatly everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.”-Reproduced
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)The other Mohan: In Britain's Indian ocean empire by Amrita Shah Fourth Estate/Harper collie publishers India, 2024 412 pp. Rs. 699 (PR))
ABSTRACT
Amrita Shah’s search lade to here discovery that Mohanal had been A Satyagrahi in South Africa in 1908 both Mohandas’s and Mohanlal’s sojourns to South Africa open up a world and a context which forms what Shah aptly calls “Britain’s Indian oceans “. The British empire was first and foremost was first and form sot a maritime one. The control of trade overseas made possible British dominance over large parts of Asian and Africa. British ships not only carried commodities but also ferried human beings. To Facilitate its own economic interests (read exploitation of their colonies), the British empire created a mobile world of labour. Capital and its human agents, the bourgeoisie, as Karl Mars noted in The communities manifesto, “most neatly everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.”-Reproduced
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