Chatsworth
Subtitle: the making of a South African township
By: edited by Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed
Publisher: UKZN Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Scotsville, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9781869142551
Subjects: East Indians; History; Economic conditions; Social conditions
Description: "In 1960, apartheid's planners created the 'Indian' township of Chatworth, evicting people from established neighbourhoods around Durban and forcibly settling them into the grid of a modern racial ghetto. Making home within this architecture of exclusion, along streets without names, tens of thousands of new residents begin building new lives and new communities, developing an urban space with a unique cultural vibrancy born of creativity and economic struggle."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.