TY - BOOK AU - Desai,Ashwin AU - Vahed,Goolam H. TI - A history of the present: a biography of Indian South Africans, 1990-2019 T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780199098798 (ebook) : AV - DT1768.E38 U1 - 968.004914 23 PY - 2020/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - East Indians KW - South Africa KW - Social conditions KW - 1994- KW - Ethnic relations N1 - This edition previously issued in print: 2019; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 'A History of the Present' presents an overview of Indian South Africans in the quarter century following the end of apartheid. Based on oral interviews and archival research it threads a narrative of the lives of Indian South Africans that ranges from the working class men and women to the heady heights of the newly minted billionaires; the changes wrought in the fields of religion and gender; opportunities offered on the sporting fields; the search for roots producing local histories that tell of nostalgia, longing and identity; and the links with India and a myriad of transnational organisations UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199498017.001.0001 ER -