Atlantic Gandhi by Natarajan Nalini;

Author:Natarajan, Nalini;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SAGE Publications India Pvt, Ltd.

Among the features of a lifestyle to be avoided by the educated bhadralok was the close interaction between middle-class women and the wandering female artists from the lower castes who were a source of entertainment and education for those confined to the inner space of the courtyard…[there were attempts in the late nineteenth century]…to eliminate from the andarmahal or women's quarters, the panchalis or folksongs described as ‘filthy’ and ‘polluting’ by the missionaries. (Niranjana 2006: 75)

For this reason, she argues, the avatars of these figures in indenture, ‘subaltern female migrants’, the sexually more explicit woman of the lower classes, the ‘coolie’ woman was ‘disallowed’ from the Indian nationalist woman question (22). I argue in this chapter that the diasporic woman, at least in South Africa, framed not just indenture, but nationalism as well. After all, the models of purity and spirituality that Gandhi advocated in India were first tried out on the Tamil women of the Transvaal.

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