Front Lines and Status Lines

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-94
Author(s):  
Radhika Singha
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Global History ◽  
World War One ◽  
Wage Differences ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
South African War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Auxiliary Services

.Over 1897-1902, the Tirah campaign, the South African war and the China expedition made it necessary to re-organise the standing non-combatant units of the Indian Army. The contention was that the combatant and the follower ranks of the Indian Army were recruited from entirely different rural strata. In fact there was a considerable overlap in recruiting pools. This overlap increased in World War one due to the growing importance of the auxiliary services and the need to conserve all labor and use it more ‘efficiently’. The ‘higher’ followers, those organised in distinct departments, such as mule-driver and stretcher-bearer units, benefitted from the unsettling of status hierarchies and wage differences; less so the attached or ‘menial’ followers who provided ‘domestic’ services and included ‘untouchable’ service-providers in their ranks. The chapter engages with the global history of domestic work to examine the production of ‘menial’ status in the institutional context of the Indian Army., The care-giving services of the ‘menial’ follower reproduced both the ‘martial caste’ standing of the Indian soldier and the race standing of the British soldier. The ‘menial follower’ tried to stabilise his situation of institutional precarity but remained vulnerable to a regime of personal and discretionary discipline.

Boer War

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
African Region ◽  
Boer War ◽  
War Memory ◽  
South African War ◽  
White Settler ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
And Control

The Boer War of 1899–1902, also termed the Anglo-Boer War or South African War, was waged by Britain to establish its imperial supremacy in South Africa and by Boers/Afrikaners to defend their independent republican order and control of the destiny of the white settler states they had secured in the interior. Large, long, controversial and costly, the Boer War was a colonial conflict which finally completed the British imperial conquest of the Southern African region. As is to be expected of a war that has a widely recognized significance not only in the history of European imperialism in Southern Africa but in world history more generally, literature on the 1899–1902 conflict is, simply, enormous. Scholarship is available not merely in English and in Afrikaans, but also in Dutch, French, German, Russian, Spanish, and even in Japanese. As it happens, more recent decades have seen the publication of sizeable bibliographies covering a century of writings on the Boer War in German and in Dutch. Although it could obviously not be claimed that every aspect of the 1899–1902 period—military, political, economic, social, or cultural—has been treated, evenly or otherwise, by so vast a body of literature, the sheer quantity of work available has to influence the scope and selectivity of any Boer War bibliography of this kind. While this bibliographic article includes some seminal early pieces, it is weighted toward more recently works and, in particular, includes scholarship which contains detailed bibliographies covering aspects of warfare (battles, sieges) that are not a specific focus of the approach taken here. Secondly, other classifiable areas of historiography which fall beyond the limits of this article, such as war memory and commemoration, and postwar economic reconstruction and political state-making, are treated—in some instances, quite substantially—in single-author general overviews and in multi-author edited treatments. In other respects, this article goes beyond more conventional historical terrain in including the war’s literary and cultural influences.

Locating the location of a South African location: the paradoxical pre-history of Soweto

Urban History ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
HOWARD PHILLIPS
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
South African ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
The South ◽  
Pneumonic Plague ◽  
South African War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Emergency Measure ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT:This article examines the decisive role of the pneumonic plague epidemic of 1904 in re-shaping the racial geography of Johannesburg after the South African War. The panic which this epidemic evoked swept away the obstacles which had blocked such a step since 1901 and saw the Indian and African inhabitants of the inner-city Coolie Location forcibly removed to Klipspruit Farm 12 miles outside of the city as a health emergency measure. There, the latter were compelled to remain, even after the epidemic had waned, making it henceforth the officially designated site for their residence. In 1963, now greatly expanded, it was named Soweto. From small germs do mighty townships grow.

Something of Themselves

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah LeFanu
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Rudyard Kipling ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Mary Kingsley ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
South African War ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Cultural Legacies

In early 1900, the paths of three British writers--Rudyard Kipling, Mary Kingsley and Arthur Conan Doyle--crossed in South Africa, during what has become known as Britain's last imperial war. Each of the three had pressing personal reasons to leave England behind, but they were also motivated by notions of duty, service, patriotism and, in Kipling's case, jingoism. Sarah LeFanu compellingly opens an unexplored chapter of these writers' lives, at a turning point for Britain and its imperial ambitions. Was the South African War, as Kipling claimed, a dress rehearsal for the Armageddon of World War One? Or did it instead foreshadow the anti-colonial guerrilla wars of the later twentieth century? Weaving a rich and varied narrative, LeFanu charts the writers' paths in the theatre of war, and explores how this crucial period shaped their cultural legacies, their shifting reputations, and their influence on colonial policy.

Arthur Thomas Masterman, 1869 - 1941

1941 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 813-817
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Fish Eggs ◽  
The North ◽  
South African War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The University

A. T. Masterman died on 10 February. Born in 1869, he was the third son of Thomas W. Masterman of Rotherfield Hall, Sussex; one brother became Bishop of Plymouth, another Secretary of State for India and a third was killed in the South African War. He was elected a Fellow in 1915. He was educated at University School, Hastings, then proceeding to Weymouth College from which he obtained a scholarship at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Here he fell under the influence of the late Sir Arthur Shipley, who aroused his interest in zoology, his second subject being physiology. He was prominent in the college for his football and golf, and in the university as president of the swimming club and captain of the first university waterpolo team. In 1893 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Natural History at St Andrews. This influenced the whole of his subsequent career, since his professor was the leading authority on British fisheries, having devoted thirty years to the elucidation of the life histories of food fishes. In the next years Masterman was responsible for reports on the S.S. Garland collections off the east coast of Scotland, the growth of flat-fishes particularly when exposed to pathogenic conditions, the arrival in the North Sea of tunny, the correlation of its skeleton to its powerful swimming being of particular interest, and the life history of the sand eel. It was a period of speculation—fish eggs being still supposed to be laid all the year round with a slower winter development. In the case of the sand eel two flushes of larvae were found in March-April and July-August.

Colonial Editions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Johanson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
South African ◽  
Type A ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Export Trade ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
South African War

This chapter describes a colonial edition and considers its role in the patterns of the entire export trade in British books from the 1840s onwards. A colonial edition is categorized as a new setting of type (a true edition), a separate impression from the same type, a separate issue, a reissue, or other types of book which do not fit neatly into a prescriptive bibliographical scheme. Colonial editions were produced to appear distinctive, in order to market them as reliable series of quality, and to prevent them being sold in the United Kingdom, where new novels cost at least twice as much per title as in the colonies. They were a cornerstone of the book trade to South Africa between the South African War (1899–1902) and World War One (1914–1918).

scholarly journals Latent Opportunities for Heritage Tourism in South Africa: Evidence from Mahikeng and Surrounds

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10(5)) ◽  
pp. 1591-1609
Author(s):  
James Drummond ◽  
Fiona Drummond ◽  
Christian Rogerson
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Boer War ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
South African War ◽  
History Of

In many parts of the global South heritage is one of the major drivers for destination development. This case study builds upon the existing international scholarship on heritage as a driver for local economic development. The focus on the study is Mahikeng and the wider Ngaka Modiri Molema District in the North West province where there is a wealth of underutilised local cultural and heritage assets. This valuable asset base stems from the area’s history of multi-cultural interactions and with important historical events that occurred in the area relating to the colonial town of Mafeking; the Siege of Mafeking, the founding of the Boy Scout movement and the Anglo-Boer War (South African War); the life of David Livingstone; the life and experiences of prominent African leaders like Sol Plaatje and Dr (Ngaka) Modiri Molema; and, African cultural heritage. However, many heritage assets in the area are underutilised due to the peripheral location of the town, poor marketing and low visitor numbers, as well as, poor maintenance. Arguably, Mahikeng and its surrounds enjoys a rich heritage asset base which offers latent opportunities for a future expansion of heritage tourism and an expanded contribution of tourism for the local economy.

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