About the Book: Atlantic Gandhi
Using the frames of diaspora theory, post-colonial discourse theory and the
recent Atlantic turn in studies of resistance, this book brings into relief
Gandhis experience as a traveler moving from a classic colony, India, to the
plantation and mining society of South Africa.
The author forwards the argument that this move between different modes of
production brought Gandhi into contact with indentured laborers, with whom he
shared exilic and diasporic consciousness, and whose difficult yet resilient
lives inspired his philosophy. It reads Gandhis nationalistic (that is,
anti-colonial) sentiments as born in diasporic exile, where he formed his
perspective as a