Hi everyone, what do y'all think were some of the similarities in the independence movements of India, South Africa, and Israel. If you are comparing and contrasting them. And why did South Africa remain under British influence long after India had become a free nation?
I know that in India there was religious strife between the hindus and muslims and in South Africa there was tribal conflicts and race problems.
Any idea or suggestions?
South Africa became a Dominion in 1910, completely independent in 1931, India became an Independent Dominion in 1947. They are very different subjects.
SA became a Republic in 1961, India in 1950. I am not sure that one can class the Israeli/Zionist organisation as an Independence movement, they were more of a foreign insurgency.
The Black, Indian, coloured and 47.71% or more of the white population of South Africa were quite happy with the status of a Dominion and close ties with Britain. It was the Afrikaaner Nationalists, supporters of Nazi Germany in WW2, having gained power in 1948 and determined to never lose it, who used the Commonwealth opposition to Apartheid to promote a Republic. There was no organised non-white movement for Independence, on the contrary the early African National Congress and Indian National Congress (the SA one) promoted their claims and rights as British subjects.
The Indian Independence movements bear no similarity to the South African experience at all and changed dramatically over time swinging between left-wing revolutionaries, bandits with a political agenda, promoters of non-violence and of murder and mayhem to Cambridge educated socialists.
