The two-day event included a re-enactment of Gandhi being thrown off the train, as well as a banquet at the local city hall, which was lit up in the colours of the Indian flag. Pietermaritzburg station is now a pilgrimage site for Indians who come to pay homage to Gandhi Credit: Kalpana Sunder. South Africa is now home to the largest Indian population on the African continent, and their influence on the country is palpable.
If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc. Share using Email. By Kalpana Sunder 26th March After he was evicted from a train in South Africa, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi devoted his life to combatting racial inequality through passive resistance. This incident changed the course of his life.
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I dare say that the Government will give you copies of these certificates even free of charge because the Bill has not yet become law, but if there is any Indian in this vast assemblage who wants to take out a copy of that certificate and today wishes to burn the certificate, either out of shame or false modesty or any other reason of a similar nature, then I say emphatically let him step forward and say he does not want his certificate to be burned, but if it is your solemn resolution that you will not go to the Government to ask for a copy of the certificate, then I say, you have well done.
Polak, who followed Gandhiji, said that he wished first of all to thank the audience for their hearty welcome. He then informed them that he had been honoured by being conferred a special title, 'the shepherd of the Indian community'.
He did not know exactly why, but he presumed it was for three reasons: "First of all, because I have considered it my duty, so far as possible, to guard the Indian community; next, because I have considered it my duty to see that they went the way they should go; and thirdly, because I have considered it my duty to see that when all was finished they were properly locked up.
He said, he was in Durban a few days ago, and at that time he was the guest of Mr. At the dinner Mr. Abdul Cadir said to him jokingly, "Mr. Polak, you cannot be Indian, because your complexion is too fair.
We were men before ever we were Indians or Englishmen, and, although you may be born in India and I in England, although seven oceans may lie between us, although the whole stretch of a continent may divide us, there is one thing that unites us, and that is what Mr. Anglia has called our common humanity, and that is regardless of colour, race or religion.
I am here today to speak to you as an Englishman and not as a member of the British Indian Association nor as the Editor of Indian Opinion, but as an Englishman, because I wish to join myself with you today, as I feel that my honour is at stake equally with yours, in the proceedings that are before our eyes today.
Four resolutions were then' passed unanimously. The first resolution protested against the Asiatic Voluntary Registration Validation Bill, which was before the Parliament of the Transvaal, and endorsed the Petition presented to the Hon'ble the Legislative Assembly on behalf of the British Indian Association. It was proposed by Mr. Adam H. Chettiar, Chairman, Tamil Benefits Society. The second resolution re-affirmed solemnly, sincerely, and prayerfully the resolution of the British Indian community not to submit to the Asiatic Act, which it considered to be contrary to religion and their conscience.
Cachhalia, R. Padiachy Pretoria , V. Chetty, P. Naidoo, and M. The third resolution said that the Asiatic Voluntary Registration Validation Bill was a breach of the compromise entered into by the Government with the Asiatic communities and hoped that the colonists would demand an honourable fulfilment of the terms entered into by General Smuts on behalf of the Government of the colony and in the name of the colonists. Assam Rifles Commandant, his family members among 7 killed in ambush in Manipur 'Will lockdown, stopping of vehicles help?
Home India years of Satyagraha: Today, on June 7, Mahatma Gandhi was thrown off a train in South Africa years of Satyagraha: Today, on June 7, Mahatma Gandhi was thrown off a train in South Africa The year is an important year for India-South Africa relations as it marks the 25 years of the establishment of diplomatic relations, the th anniversary of the Pietermaritzburg railway station incident and the th birth centenary of South African iconic leader, Nelson Mandela.
A young Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhi spent 21 years in South Africa before returning to India in The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards.
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