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Cricket Ethics and Indo-Xhosa Ethnics

In Pursuit of a Politics of Virtue along a South African—Indian Axis

University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, Eric.Worby{at}wits.ac.za

India and South Africa have long been mutually implicated in a common ethical field. The principal motivation for both scholars and inhabitants of these two large social formations to take an interest in one another — to make comparisons as much as to actively recall or forge connections — derives from a shared preoccupation with civic virtue and private ethics. In this article, I examine postcolonial cricket and a beauty contest as exemplary arenas in which common concerns about race, justice, identity and democracy may be discerned and debated.

Key Words: beauty contests • civic virtue • cricket • ethics • India • South Africa

Journal of Asian and African Studies, Vol. 44, No. 1, 151-165 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0021909608098680


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