Racism Against Indians-Explanatory Note
Racism Against Indians
Explanatory Note
The Passive Resistance Campaign continued on the one hand, and on the other, Indians continued to be targeted for specific forms of persecution.
The acrimony of the whites appeared to increase in direct relation to the political successes scored abroad, or so at least was the perception among the "Old Guards" who counselled that Passive Resistance be called off.
Anti-Indianism formed an important element in the 1948 elections, then both the white political parties, the United and the National, tried to outdo each other in venting their spleen against Indians. Later, when in 1949, African anger, which had been mounting for Wars due to their abject exploitation and gross neglect, was directed on Indians, whites egged on that anger: the Riot Commission appointed la investigate the causes of that riot, observed that Indians "were hoist to their own petard", implying that they had brought the attacks onto themselves through their political militancy.
The reports included in this section range from explosive unsubstantiated stories in the Sunday papers of Indians dating white women, bootlegging and black-marketeering, to government neglect, resulting in a high rate of unemployment, shortages in housing and school accommodation and to humiliating exclusions and university segregation.
