Mohamed Adhikari

Mohamed Adhikari
Scientific career
Fields	Historian
Institutions	University of Cape Town

Muhammad Adhikari is a professor of history and author of several books on both coloured identity and politics in South Africa as well as on settler colonialism and genocide.

He is a professor at the University of Cape Town. He was born in Cape Town in 1953, matriculated from Harold Cressy High School in 1971, and obtained a bachelor's degree at the University of Cape Town in 1980. ^[1]

He has served as a board member of the International Network of Genocide Scholars. ^[2]

Bibliography

• Adhikari, Mohamed (2005). Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community. Ohio University Press. ISBN   978-0-89680-442-5. ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}
• Adhikari, Mohamed, ed. (2009). Burdened by Race: Coloured Identities in Southern Africa. Juta and Company Ltd. ISBN   978-1-919895-14-7.
• Adhikari, Mohamed (2011). The Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples. Ohio University Press. ISBN   978-0-8214-4400-9. ^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}
• Adhikari, Mohamed (2012). Against the Current: a biography of Harold Cressy, 1889–1916. Cape Town: Juta. ISBN   9781919895857. OCLC   803278327.
• Adhikari, Mohamed, ed. (2015). Genocide on Settler Frontiers: When Hunter-Gatherers and Commercial Stock Farmers Clash. Berghahn Books. ISBN   978-1-78238-739-8. ^{[11] [12] [13] [14]}
• Adhikari, Mohamed, ed. (2021). Civilian-Driven Violence and the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Societies. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-000-41177-5. ^[15]
• Adhikari, Mohamed (2022). Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples. Hackett Publishing. ISBN   978-1-64792-055-5.
• Adhikari, Mohamed (2023). "'Now We Are Natives': The Genocide of the Beothuk People and the Politics of 'Extinction' in Newfoundland". In Jacob, Frank; Göllnitz, Martin (eds.). Genocide and Mass Violence in the Age of Extremes. De Gruyter. pp. 115–136. doi:10.1515/9783110781328. ISBN   978-3-11-078132-8. ISSN   2626-6490.

References

1. "A Short Life with a Long Reach into the Future: Harold Cressy". Jutalaw book review. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
2. "Executive Board : Who We Are : International Network of Genocide Scholars". inogs.com. Retrieved 14 September 2025.
3. Jackson, Shannon (2006). "Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 39 (3). New York: 537–538.
4. Thomas, Cornelius (2007). "Not White Enough, Not Black Enough : Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community, Mohamed Adhikari : review-article". Tydskrif vir Letterkunde. 44 (1): 340–346. hdl:10520/EJC112190.
5. Magubane, Zine (2007). "Mohamed Adhikari. Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. xv + 252 pp. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. $24.00. Paper. – James Muzondidya. Walking a Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured Community of Zimbabwe. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2005. xvii + 323 pp. Tables. Photographs. Notes. References. Index. $29.95. Paper". African Studies Review . 50 (1): 177–179. doi:10.1353/arw.2005.0121.
6. Muzondidya, James (2006). "Review of Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community". Kronos (32): 280–283. ISSN   0259-0190. JSTOR   41056576.
7. McDonald, Jared (2013). "The Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples". South African Historical Journal . 65 (4): 666–670. doi:10.1080/02582473.2013.781212.
8. Cavanagh, Edward (2013). "The Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples". Safundi . 14 (2): 232–234. doi:10.1080/17533171.2013.778106.
9. "Kelly on Adhikari, 'Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples' | H-Genocide | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
10. Erasmus, Piet (Summer 2012). "The Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples". African Studies Quarterly . 13 (3). Gainesville: 72–73.
11. Lancaster, Guy (March 2016). "Genocide on Settler Frontiers: When Hunter-Gatherers and Commercial Stock Farmers Clash". International Journal on World Peace. 33 (1): 111+ – via Gale Academic OneFile.
12. Lawson, Tom (2016). "Mohamed Adhikari (ed.), Genocide on Settler Frontiers: When Hunter Gatherers and Commercial Stock Farmers Clash : Collection of chapters at the cutting edge of genocide studies". Historia. 61 (1). doi: 10.17159/2309-8392/2016/v61n1a12 . ISSN   2309-8392.
13. Melber, Henning (2015). "Book Review: Genocide on Settler Frontiers: When Hunter-Gatherers and Commercial Stock Farmers Clash". Africa Spectrum . 50 (2): 137–139. doi: 10.1177/000203971505000209 .
14. Silverstein, Ben (2017). "Genocide on Settler Frontiers: When hunter-gatherers and commercial stock farmers clash ed. by Mohamed Adhikari". Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History . 18 (1). doi:10.1353/cch.2017.0012.
15. McDonald, Jared (2021). "Civilian-Driven Violence and the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Societies: Edited by MOHAMED ADHIKARI. Cape Town: UCT Press, 2020. xiii + 329 pp. ISBN 978 1 77582 231 1". South African Historical Journal . 73 (4): 948–950. doi:10.1080/02582473.2021.1941221.