Satyagraha in South Africa
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~140.000 palabras · 677 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAMahatma Gandhi. (n.d.). Satyagraha in South Africa. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/mahatma-gandhi/satyagraha-in-south-africa
- MLAMahatma Gandhi. Satyagraha in South Africa. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/mahatma-gandhi/satyagraha-in-south-africa.
- ChicagoMahatma Gandhi. Satyagraha in South Africa. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/mahatma-gandhi/satyagraha-in-south-africa.
Referencia de la edición reproducida. SigPhi es la reproducción digital. Se incluyen año, editorial y traductor cuando constan; «n.d.» indica que no consta el año.
De qué trata
El relato que Gandhi hizo él mismo de los veinte años de lucha de los indios en Sudáfrica, donde inventó y probó el método que después llevaría a la India.
Contexto e historia
Lo escribió en 1923-24 en la cárcel de Yerwada, en gujarati, y lo tradujo al inglés Valji Govindji Desai. Cuenta cómo nació la palabra satyagraha —«firmeza en la verdad»—, que Gandhi hizo acuñar en un concurso porque «resistencia pasiva» le parecía engañosa: lo que él proponía no era la pasividad del débil sino una forma de acción que exige más coraje que la violencia. El libro es a la vez historia y manual, y tiene la virtud de mostrar los errores: las huelgas que fallaron, los acuerdos traicionados, los momentos en que la disciplina se rompió. Vale la pena leerlo antes que la autobiografía, porque aquí el método se ve funcionando en pequeño.
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One of these is Johannesburg, the golden city of South Africa. Only fifty years ago, the site on which it now stands was desolate and covered with dry grass. But when gold mines were discovered, houses began to be built one after another, as if by magic, and today there are many hand¬ some and substantial buildings. The wealthy people of the place have got trees from the more fertile tracts of South Africa and from Europe, paying as much as a guinea for a tree, and have planted them there. A traveller ignorant of this previous history would imagine that these trees had been there for all time. I do not propose to describe all the parts of South Africa, but will confine myself only to those which are connected with our subject-matter. One part of South Africa is under the Portuguese, and the rest under the British. The territory under the Portuguese is called Delagoa Bay, and this is the first South African port for steamers from India. As we proceed further south, we come to Natal, the first British Colony. Its chief sea-port is called Port Natal, but we know it as Durban, under which name it is generally known all over South Africa. Durban is the largest city in Natal. The capital is Pietermaritzburg, situated inland at a distance of about sixty miles from Durban and at a height of about two thousand feet above sea-level. The climate of Durban is somewhat like that of Bombay, although rather colder. If we proceed further inland beyond Natal we reach the Transvaal, whose mines supply the world with the largest amount of gold. Some years ago diamond mines were also discovered in one of which was the world’s largest diamond. The Cullinan , so called after the name of the proprietor of the mine, weighed over 3,000 carats, or over 1^ lb. avoirdupois, while the Kohinoor now weighs about 100 carats and the Orloff , one of the Russian crown jewels, about 200 carats.