Administrative matters which did not come under the Indians Relief Bill were settled by correspondence between General Smuts and me, as for example, safe¬ guarding the educated Indians’ right of entry into the Cape Colony, allowing Specially exempted’ educated Indians to enter South Africa, the status of educated Indi¬ ans who had entered South Africa within the last three years, and permitting existing plural wives to join their husbands in South Africa. After dealing with all these points, General Smuts, in his letter of June 30, 1914, added: ‘With regard to the administration of existing laws, it has always been and will continue to be the desire of the SATYAGRAHA IN SOUTH AFRICA Government to see that they are administered in a just manner and with due regard to vested rights.5 I replied to the above letter to this effect: ‘I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of even date. I feel deeply grateful for the patience and courtesy which you showed during our discussions.
‘The passing of the Indians Relief Bill and this cor¬ respondence finally closed the Satyagraha struggle which commenced in the Septemper of 1906 and which to the Indian community cost much physical suffering and pecu¬ niary loss and to the Government much anxious thought and consideration.
‘As you are aware, some of my countrymen have wished me to go further. They are dissatisfied that the Trade Licence laws of the different provinces, the Transvaal Gold Law, the Transvaal Townships Act, the Transvaal Law 3 of 1885 have not been altered so as to give them full rights of residence, trade and ownership of land. Some of them are dissatisfied that full inter-provin¬ cial migration is not permitted, and some are dissatisfied that on the marriage question the Relief Bill goes no further than it does. They have asked me that all the above matters might be included in the Satyagraha struggle. I have been unable to comply with their wishes. Whilst, therefore, they have not been included in the pro¬ gramme of Satyagraha, it will not be denied that some day or other these matters will require further and sympathe¬ tic consideration by the Government. Complete satisfac¬ tion cannot be expected until full civic rights have been conceded to the resident Indian population.
CI have told my countrymen that they will have to exercise patience, and by all honourable means at their disposal educate public opinion so as to enable the Govern¬ ment of the day to go further than the present corres¬ pondence does. I shall hope when the Europeans of South Africa fully appreciate the fact that now the importation of indentured labour from India is prohibited, and the Immigrants Regulation Act of last year has in practice all but stopped further free Indian immigration, and that my countrymen do not entertain any political ambition, THE END OF THE STRUGGLE they, the Europeans, will see the justice and indeed the necessity of my countrymen being granted the rights I have just referred to.
Meanwhile, if the generous spirit that the Gov¬ ernment have applied to the treatment of the problem during the past few months continues to be -applied, as promised in your letter, in the administration of the exis¬ ting laws, I am quite certain that the Indian comm¬ unity throughout the Union will be able to enjoy some measure of peace and never be a source of trouble to the Government.5 CONCLUSION CONCLUSION Thus the great Satyagraha struggle closed after eight years, and it appeared that the Indians in South Africa were now at peace. On July 18, 1914, I sailed for England, to meet Gokhale, on my way back to India, with mixed feelings of pleasure and regret, — pleasure because I was returning home after many years and eagerly looked forward to serving the country under Gokhale’s guidance, regret because it was a great wrench for me to leave South Africa, where I had passed twenty-one years of my life sharing to the full in the sweets and bitters of human exper¬ ience, and where I had realized my vocation in life.
When one considers the painful contrast between the happy ending of the Satyagraha struggle and the present condition of the Indians in South Africa, one feels for a moment as if all this suffering had gone for nothing, or is inclined to question the efficacy of Satyagraha as a solvent of the problems of mankind. Let us here consider this point for a little while. There is a law of nature that a thing can be retained by the same means by which it has been acq¬ uired. A thing acquired by violence can be retained by Violence aloheTwhile one acquired by truth can be““retainefl offiyTjy^ruth^'GrHeTndiaiis in South Africa, therefore, can ensure their safety today if they can wield the weapon of Satyagraha. There are no such miraculous properties in Satyagraha, that a thing acquired by truth could be reta¬ ined even when truth was given up. It would not be desir¬ able even if it was possible. If therefore the position of Indians in South Africa has now suffered deterioration, that argues the absence of Satyagrahis among them. There is no question here of finding fault with the present genera¬ tion of South African Indians, but of merely stating the facts of the case. Individuals or bodies of individuals cannot borrow from others qualities which they themselves do not possess. The Satyagrahi veterans passed away one after another. Sorabji, Kachhalia, Thambi Naidoo, Parsi Rusto- mji and others are no more, and there are very few now CONCLUSION who passed through the fire of Satyagraha. The few that remain are still in the fighting line, and I have not a shadow of a doubt that they will be the saviours of the community on the day of its trial if the light of Satyagraha is burning bright within them.
Finally, the reader of these pages has seen that had it not been for this great struggle and for the untold suffer¬ ings which many Indians invited upon their devoted heads, the Indians today would have been hounded out of South Africa. Nay, the victory achieved by Indians in South Africa more or less served as a shield for Indian emigrants in other parts of the British Empire, who, if they are suppres¬ sed, will be suppressed thanks to the absence of Satyagraha among themselves, and to India’s inability -to protect them, and not because of any flaw in the weapon of Satyagraha. I will consider myself amply repaid if I have in these pages demonstrated with some success that Satyagraha is a price¬ less and matchless weapon, and that those who wield it are strangers to disappointment or defeat.
INDEX ABDUL GANI, 95 Abdul Kadar Bavazir=Imam Saheb q.v.
Abdulla Haji Adam Jhaveri, Sheth, 39 Abdul Rahman, Doctor, 12 Abubakar Amad, Sheth, 21, 30 Accounts, the importance of keeping proper, 114-15 Adajania, Sorabji Shapurji, Adam, Sheth Haji, 40 Adamji Miyankhan, 45 Agreements, golden rule for interpreting, 17 Ahmedabad, Satyagraha of the millhands in, xiii Aiyar, Sir Subramanya, 48 Albrecht, 230 Alexander, Mrs, helps to save the author from being lynch¬ Alexander, Police Superinten¬ dent, contrives to save the author from mob fury, 54 ff., Allahabad, 46 Amad Bhayat, Sheth, 280 Ampthill, Lord, 209 ff, 295 Anandacharulu, P., 48 Asiatic Department created, Asiatic Law Amendment Ordi¬ nance, 90 ff.
Asiatic Registration Act, 1 1 7 ff. Avesta, the, 220 BADARI SHIVPUJAN, 256 Badruddin Tyabji, 46 Bagasra, xii Balfour, 280-81 Banerji, Surendranath, 48 Basutos, the, 7 Beauty, false notions of, 8 Bechuanas, the, 7 Bhagavata, the, 9 Bhandarkar, Professor, 47 ff. Bhavani Dayal, Mrs, 253 Bhownuggree, Sir Muncherjee, Bible, the, 10 Biharilal Maharaj, 277 Bloemfontein, 4, 167 Bloemfontein jail, 283 Boers, the, 13; compel ‘natives’ to till land for them, 13; come into conflict with the English and ‘trek’ into the interior, 13; love their own language, 14-5; their large farms, 14; love of liberty, 14; their women equally brave, 14, 15; their religion, 15 INDEX Boer War, the, 13,62 ff.; Indian ambulance corps in, 69 ff. Booth, Dr, 70 Boston tea party, 187 Buller, General, 71 33; Indian grievances in, Cape of Good Hope, 5 Cartwright, Albert, 142 ff, 167, Champaran, Satyagraha in, xii, xiii, 78 Chelmsford, Lord, xii Chesney, 46 Christopher, A., 268-69 Clifford, Dr, 104 Clothes, the philosophy of, 9 ‘Colour Bar’ in legislation, 27, Co-education on Tolstoy Farm, Constitution of the Union of South Africa, how framed, Courland, s.s., 48 ff.
Crewe, Lord, 208 Cronje, General, 13, 74 Cullinan, the, the world’s larg¬ est diamond, 4 Curzon, Lord, 73 DADA ABDULLA, Indian firm Dadabhai Naoroji, 60 ff., 110 ff. Dadibarjor, Dr, 55 Daily Mail, the, 187 Daily Star, the, 142 Damania, N., 216 Daud Muhammad, Sheth, 170, Deccan Sabha, 46 ff.
Defence of India Act, 87 Deportation to India, Satya- grahis punished with, 202 ff Desai, Pragji Khandubhai, 197, De Wet, General, 14 Dharma-yuddha, xiv Dick, Miss, 164 Diepkloof prison, hunger strike Doctor, Mrs, J.M., 256 Doke, Miss Olive, 157 Doukhobors of Russia, 106 Drew, Rev. Dewdney, 167 Drugless healing on Tolstoy Duncan, 101 Dundee, 281-82 SATYAGRAHA IN SOUTH AFRICA the author mobbed in, 54 EDWARD, KING, 15 crooked policy, 115 ff.
Ellis, 240 Emigration Act, the Indian, xii Empire, the British, 18 English, the, in South Africa 13; defeated by the Dutch at Majuba, 13; in Natal, 19 Europeans’ argument for ex¬ cluding Indians from South Africa, 83-84 European traders, their rela¬ tions with Negroes, 22-23 FARRAR, SIR GEORGE, 113 Food on Tolstoy Farm, 224-25 Fourth Resolution, the famous, 95 Friend, the, 167 Gandhi, Harilal Mohandas, 197 Gandhi, Maganlal Khushal- Gandhi, Mrs Kasturba, 255-56 Gandhi, Mrs K.G., 256 Gandhi, Mrs S.M., 256 Gandhi, Mohandas Karam- chand, the author, leaves India for South Africa in Da- da Abdulla’s case, 37; lands in Durban, 38; is pushed out of the train at Maritzburg and insulted in other ways, 38-39; but sees the case through, 39; admitted as advocate of the Supreme Court of Natal, 41; helps to found the Natal Indian Congress, 41 ff.; and -the Natal Indian Educational Association, 43; returns to India, 44; writes pamphlet on condition of Indians in South Africa, 46; meets Lok- amanya, 46; and Gokhale, 47; addresses meetings in Poona and Madras, 47-48; recalled to South Africa, 48; mobbed in Durban, 53-54; but declines to prosecute assailants, 58 ff.; serves upon the ambulance corps in the Boer War, 69; returns to India and starts practice in Bombay, but is called to South Africa again, 75; opens an attorney’s office in Johannesburg, 79; joins the Indian Stretcher-bearer Corps in the Zulu ‘rebellion’, 90 ff.; his speech adumbrat¬ ing Satyagraha, 97 ff.; serves on deputation to Eng¬ land, 110; starts Indian Opi¬ nion and founds Phoenix Set¬ tlement, 131 ff.;• gets two months’ imprisonment, 137 ff.; his experiences in Johan¬ nesburg jail, 138 ff; comes to terms with the Government on behalf of the Indians, 142 ff.; but is opposed and assa ul- INDEX INDEX ted, 148 ff.; nursed by the Dokes, 154 ff.; his attempt to cast out fear, 171; charged with cunning, 189; in prison again, 201; goes to England on a second deputation, 207 ff.; writes Hind Swaraj, 211; his experiment of co-educa¬ tion, 222 ff.; experiments in drugless healing, 225 ff, 232 ff.; rejection of milk, 234-35; insistence upon speaking in the mother tongue, 242; requests Gokale to speak in Marathi, 242-43; meets the mine-owners in connection with Indian labourers’ strike, 265 ff.; goes with the strikers to Charlestown, 267 ff.; and with them crosses over into the Transvaal, 270 ff.; gets nine months’ imprisonment at Dundee, 282; and three months’ at Volksrust, 282; released after six weeks, 292; meets General Smuts, 296 ff.; negotiates provisional agree¬ ment, 299 ff.; his letter to General Smuts marking the end of the Satyagraha strug¬ gle, 303 ff.; leaves South Africa for England en route to India, 306 Gibson, J.C., 154 Gita, the Bhagavad, 222 Godfrey, George, 77 Gokhale, Gopal Krishna, 34, 46; the author meets, 47, 74, 163, 194; his visit to Tolstoy Farm, 226; tour in South Gokuldas, H., 256 Govindarajulu, V., 256 Greylingstad, 279-80 Griffin, Sir Lepel, 110 Gujarat, xiii, 21 HABIB, SHETH HAJI, 95 ff, Harbatsinh, 283 Heidelberg, 280 Henry on finger prints, 93 Hertzog, General, 14, 208 Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule), Hindu, the, 48 Hobhouse, Miss, 167 Hunger strike in jail, 206 Husen Daud, 198 IMAM SAHEB, 200 Indentured Indian labour, stop¬ ping of, xii India, Government of, 19 ff. Indian Ambulance Corps in the Boer War, 69 SATYAGRAHA IN SOUTH AFRICA Indian immigration restricted in Natal, 28-29 Indian labourers reach Natal, 19-20; their condition border¬ ing on slavery, 20, 21; Europeans’ agitation against them, 24; poll-tax imposed upon them upon expiry of indenture, 26; strike work, 257, 260 ff.; march into the Transvaal, 267 ff.; sent back to Natal and cruelly compell¬ ed to work, 285 ff.; but secure a repeal of the poll- tax in the end, 303 Indian settlers, their hardships in Natal, 24 ff.; in the Transvaal, 29 ff.;in Orangia, 32, 33; in the Cape Colony, 33 ff.; divided among them¬ selves, 35-36; their resistance to an attempt to disfranchise them in Natal, 40; form ambulance corps in the Boer War, 69 ff.; undergo volun¬ tary registration, 88; and get the Asiatic Ordinance as re¬ ward, 89 ff.; raise a Stretcher- bearer Corps in the Zulu ‘rebellion’, 90 ff.; declare Satyagraha against the Asia¬ tic Act, 95 ff.;- send a depu¬ tation to England, 108 ff.; inaugurate a fresh body for Satyagraha struggle, 119; send 150 of their number to jail, 141; reach with General Smuts a settlement, 142 ff.; which is repudiated, 173 ff.; send an ultimatum to the Transvaal Government, 182 ff.; make a bonfire of regis¬ tration certificates, 185 ff.; charged with forcing fresh issue, 188 ff., send a second deputation to England, 207 ff. etc.
Indians Relief Bill, 303 Indian Stretcher-bearer Corps in the Zulu ‘rebellion’, 90 ff.
Indian traders enter South Africa, 2 1; their relations with Negroes, 22 ff.; disfran¬ chised in Natal, 27; restric¬ tions imposed upon them, 28 Iyengar, Bhashyam, 48 JAIL, JOHANNESBURG, au¬ thor’s experiences in, 138 ff.; clothing in, 138, 139; diet in Jail, Pretoria, 201 Jail, Volksrust, 201, 283 Jameson, Dr, his raid on Johannesburg, 62 Java, 12 John King of Portugal, 5 Juhu, xiv, xv INDEX Kashmir, 3 Kenilworth Castle, s.s., 208 Kheda, Satyagraha in, xiii Khilafat wrong, Satyagraha against, xiii Kildonan Castle, s.s., 211 Kitchin, Herbert, 131, 166 Klerksdorp, 239 Kohinoor, the, 4 Koran, the, 20 Krugersdorp, 239 Landsdowne, Lord, 30, 75 Laughton, F.A., 50 Lawley, Sir Arthur, 79 Locations, Indians segregated Lukin, General, 288 Lutavan, 233 MADANJIT VYAVAHARIK, Madras Standard, the, 48 Majuba Hill, 13 Malays, the, 12, 33 Marathi, Gokhale requested to Mariannhill, Trappist monas¬ tery at, 219 Maritzburg = Pietermartizburg Mauritius, 21, 136 Meat excluded from Tolstoy Mehta, Dr* Pranjivan Jagjivan, Mehta, Sir Pherozeshah Mer- Mehtab, Bai Fatma, 270 Merriman, 34, 208 Milk, the propriety of rejecting, Mirabai, 271 Molteno, Miss, 168 Molteno, Sir John, 34 Moodaley, Jack, 171 Moses, 15 Motilal, the Vadhvan worker, xi NADERI, s.s. 48 ff.
Nagappan, Swami, 205 ff. Naidoo, Mrs A. P., 253 Naidoo, Mrs P. K., 253 Naidoo, Mrs Thambi, 253 Naidoo, Thambi, 136, 137, Nanabhai Haridas, Mr Justice, 51 Narayanswami, 206 SATYAGRAHA IN SOUTH AFRICA grievances in, 24 ff., 34, Natal Indian Congress, the, founded, 42 ff.
Natal Indian Educational Asso¬ ciation founded, 43 Natal Mercury, the 39-40 Natesan, G.A., 204 Navajivan, 47 Nawabkhan, 142 Negroes, the, of South Africa, 7; their physique, 7-8; huts, 8; clothing, 9; food innocent of spices or condiments, 9- 10; languages, 10; religion, 10; truthfulness, 10; timidity, 10- 11; ‘civilization’ leads them into vice and disease, 11- 12, 19; their relations with Indian and European traders, 22 Norton, Mr, 48 ORANGE FREE STATE = Orangia, q. v.
Orangia, 4, 13, 23; Indian grie¬ vances in, 32 ff.
Orlojf, the, 4 PALMFORD, 275 Parbhusingh, an Indian, as¬ signed most responsible work at the siege of Lady¬ smith, 73 Parsi Rustomji, 52 ff, 170, 197, Passive Resistance, phrase first used to denote the Indian struggle but since given up, 102; distinguished from Sa- tyagraha, 103 Peace Preservation Ordinance, 87 Permanent funds, the impro¬ priety of managing public bodies with, 120 Petit, Mrs Jaiji, xii Phillips, Rev. Charles, 167 Phuka, the cruel practice of, Pietermartizburg, 4; author pushed out of the train at, 38, 39 Pietermaritzburg jail, 258 Pillai Parameshvaran, 48 Pillay, Miss B. M., 253 Pillay, Miss Minachi, 253 Pillay, Mrs K.C., 253 Pillay, Mrs K. Murugasa, 253 Pillay, Mrs N., 253 Pillay, Mrs N. S., 253 Pioneer, the, 46 Poll-tax on Indian labourers, 26 Poona, 46 ff.
Portugal, 5 Portuguese, the, 4 Potchefstroom, 239 INDEX Pretoria News, the 167 Progression, law of, applicable to all righteous movements, Punjab wrong, the Satyagraha against, xiii QUINN, LEUNG, 135, 144 RAGHU NARASU, 277 Rahimkhan, 277 Rajendraprasad, Babu, xii Rajkot, xii Raju Govindu, 256 Rama Sundara, Pandit, 128 Ramzan on Tolstoy Farm, 225 Ranade, Mahadev Govind, 46 Redmond, 111 Reuter sends exaggerated sum¬ mary of the author’s speech¬ es to South Africa, 48 Rickshaw, the author spared the shame of a — ride, 53 Roberts, Lord, 13 Robertson, Sir Benjamin, 296, Rose Inns, Sir James, 293 Roosevelt, President, 85 Rowlatt Act, the, xiii, Satya¬ graha against, xiii Royeppen, Joseph, 200, 217 Royeppen, Solomon, 256 Rule, the golden, for the inter¬ pretation of agreements, 1 7 SAIYAD IBRAHIM, 260, Sandals made on Tolstoy Farm, Sanitary arrangements on Tolstoy Farm, 218-19 Sarvajanik Sabha, 46 ff. Satyagraha, advent of, 95 ff; implications of, xiv, 16, 86- invention of the term, 102; distinguished from passive resistance, 103; fresh associ¬ ation organized for, 119 ff. Satyagraha in India in respect of Viramgam customs, xi, xii; as regards the stopping of in¬ dentured labour, xii; in Champaran, xii, xiii; by the mill-hands in Ahmedabad, xiii; in Kheda, xiii; against the Rowlatt Act, xiii; against Khilafat and Punjab wrongs, xiii, xiv; for Swaraj, xiii, xiv Satyagrahis keen upon keeping promises, 231; their chivalry, Saunders, 48 Saurashtra, xii, 21, 37 Savage, Dr, 90 Schlesin, Miss Sonja, 164 ff., Schreiner, Olive, 34, 168 ff. Searle, Mr Justice, 251 ff. Selborne, Lord, 30, 75, 79 Servants, no domestic — on Tolstoy Farm, 215 Shelat, U.M., 91 Shukadeva, 9 Sinha, Ramnarayan, 277 SATYAGRAHA IN SOUTH AFRICA ff., 142 ff.; his breach of Snakes on Tolstoy Farm, 230 ff. Socrates, 271 Sodha, Ratansi Mulji, 197 Sodha, Revashankar R., 256 Solomon, Sir Richard, 115 ff. Sorabji Rustomji, 288 South Africa, climate, 3; geo¬ graphy, 4 ff.; cereals, fruits etc., 5, 6; cattle, 5; landscape 6; rivers, 6 ff.; agriculture, 6; seasons and rainfall, 7; the Negroes of, 7 ff.; area and population, 7 ff.; the Dutch in, 12ff.;the Malays in, 12; Indians in, 19 ff.
Standerton, 279 Stent, Vere, 167 Subramanyam, G., 48 Subramanyam, Indian labou¬ rer, assaulted by his master, 49 Surat, 21 Swaraj, the fight for, xiii, xiv Swazis, the, 7 Symonds, 113 TAAL, THE BOER LANG¬ UAGE, 13 Table Mountain, 6 Tagore, Maharaja J.M., 48 Taib Haji Khanmamad, Indian firm in Pretoria, 37 Tata, Sir Ratanji, 212 Teaching children on Tolstoy Farm, 220 Teakworth, 209 Testament, the New, 15 Testament, the Old, 15, 31 Theatre, Empire (Johannes¬ burg), Indians declare Satya- graha at meeting in, 95 ff. Th waites, Dr, 156 Tibet, 3 Tilak, Lokamanya, 47 ff. Transvaal, the, gold and dia¬ Indian grievances in, 29 ff., Transvaal Immigrants Restric¬ tion Act, 188 Transvaal Leader, the, 142, 277 Tulsidas, 260 UNION, THE, OF SOUTH AFRICA, 17 VADHVAN, xi Vereeniging, the Peace of, 16, Vernon, Police Superintendent, Victoria, Queen, 13 Vihari, 217 Viramgam customs cordon, Satyagraha as regards, xi, xii, xiv INDEX WASHINGTON, BOOKER T., 85 Weakness, the duty of judging — charitably, 130, 206 Wedderburn, Sir W., 60 ff., Ill White, General, 71 YAJNXK, INDULAL, xiv Yeravda Jail, xiv Toung India, 47 / Zulu ‘rebellion’, Indian stret¬ cher-bearers in, 90 Zulus, the, 7 ff., 19 SOME IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS BY MAHATMA GANDHI CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE GOVERNMENT: 1944-47 The records of Gandhiji’s correspondence for the period relating to the intricate negotiation that heralded Indian independence, provides an insight into the working of Gandhiji’s mind and that of the British statesmen. It cannot but be of profound significance to all readers.
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