Introduction: India and South Africa – Comparisons, Confluences, Contrasts

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Note on Contributors

Javed Majeed is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at King's College, London. He is currently writing a monograph on Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India. His previous publications include Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity (2007, Indian edition 2014), Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics, and Postcolonialism (2009), and James Mill's The History of British India and Orientalism (1992).

Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is also Visiting Distinguished Global Professor at NYU. Her recent books include Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading (2013) and a collection of essays Ten Books that Shaped the British Empire: Shaping an Imperial Commons (2014), edited with Antoinette Burton.

Notes

1 The event was funded by the King's Annual Fund, the King's India Institute, and the Centre of Indian Studies, University of Witwatersrand.

2 Javed Majeed explores this in his ‘Imperial Literary Sensibilities, Self-definitions, and Cosmopolitanism’, in P. Bang, C.A. Bayly & W. Scheidel (eds), The Oxford World History of Empire (forthcoming).