DURBAN’S Casbah was earlier this month awarded the prestigious prize of Best Monograph for 2023 by the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Durban’s Casbah was designated an Indian sector of Durban. Alongside this segregation, the book shows there was interracial mixing at various levels and, particularly, the “spatial convergence of the marginalised” as Len Rosenberg pointed out.
Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie, a professor of history, noted this as a definitive nature of the “Grey Street Area”, which made Durban “one of the truer African cities that we have”.
The book’s sub-title, Bunny Chow, Bolsheviks, and Bioscopes, opens up worlds within worlds.
“Bunny Chow” captures the food culture of the Casbah. It is one of the Casbah’s defining
