• Many Lives offers readers an understanding of heritage as community endeavour that invites controversy as well as commemoration.

• The book features a wide selection of rarely seen personal photographs from various archive sources that give greater insight into the many lives of the indentured Indians.

Many Lives is a photographic history of the Indian diaspora in South Africa, beginning from 1860 when migrations of indentured labourers arrived in Natal. Over 700 stunning images create a collective portrait of diverse groups of people who, over the generations, came officially to be classified as "Indian" through racialised efforts by the colonial, and later apartheid, state, which partitioned them as a minority population.

It tells the stories of how ordinary people resisted and accommodated and went about making their lives in the changing times. Through institutions of family, community organisation, religion and national politics, as well as through recognisable cultural expressions such as food, fashion and creative arts, South African Indians have formed a vibrant local presence that has contributed to the rainbow of national life.

AUTHOR INFORMATION:
Goolam Vahed lecturers history at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.He has published in various journals on the history of Indians / Islam / sport in South Africa and co-authored several books, including Blacks in Whites: A Century of sporting Struggles in KwaZulu-Natal, 1880-2002; Empire & Cricket: The South African Experience 1884-1914; Inside Indian Indenture: The South African Experience 1860-1914; Monty Naicker. Between Reason and Treason; Dear Ahmedbhai. Dear Zuleikhabhen. The Letters of Zuleikha Mayat and Ahmed Kathrada 1979-1989 and Gender, Modernity & Indian Delights. The women's Cultural Group of Durban, 1954-2010.

Ashwin Desai, holds a Masters degree from Rhodes University and a doctorate from Michigan State University. He has lectured at the University of Durban-Westville, the University of Johannesburg, and Rhodes University. His publications include Blacks in Whites: A Century of sporting Struggles in KwaZulu-Natal, 1880-2002; Inside Indian Indenture: The South African Experience 1860-1914; Monty Naicker. Between Reason and Treason; The Race To Transform, Sport in post-apartheid South Africa, and numerous journal and newspaper articles.

Thembisa Waetjen, holds a Ph.D from the University of Oregon, USA, and currently lectures in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She writes about gender and culture in South African politics with articles in journals such as Theory and Society, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Theoria. She is the author of Workers and Warriors: Masculinity and the Struggle for Nation in South Africa; and co-author of Dear Ahmedbhai. Dear Zuleikhabhen. The Letters of Zuleikha Mayat and Ahmed Kathrada 1979-1989 and Gender, Modernity & Indian Delights. The women's Cultural Group of Durban, 1954-2010.

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