Pen and Sword History, 2017. Hardcover. New tightly bound hardcover with brown cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine in a new dust jacket. 8vo. (‎ 6.5 x 1.25 x 9.75 ) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photos plates. Includes chapter notes and an index. 280 pp.

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ISBN: 9781473896215

Towards the end of 1906, a meeting took place between two emerging giants of the age, Mohandas K. Gandhi and General Jan Christian Smuts. United under the same empire, but separated by distance and culture, Smuts was born in the Cape Colony, and Gandhi in Porbandar, a duchy of the Indian province of Gujarat. Both, however, went on to study law in Britain, and while developing a great admiration for the institutions of empire, each man also suffered his own particular crisis of faith. From their widely dispersed origins, Gandhi and Smuts collided over the issue of race and equality in a turbulent province of the empire, each attempting to hold the British to their stated ideals. This insightful book explores attitudes to race, and belonging, in an age when the English speaking peoples straddled the globe, and sought to impose on all of their subject races, basking under the radiance of Britannia, a common ideal of parity, equal opportunity and free movement.

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