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PART 1: ALIENS IN SOUTH
AFRICA, 1860-1914

Social situations
Trade and residence
Immigration
Constitutional and political issues
Satyagraha


It is common knowledge that Indians came to South Africa in two categories, namely as indentured Indians and as 'free' or 'passenger' Indians. The former came as a result of a triangular pact among three governments; and the latter, mainly traders ever alert to new opportunities abroad, came at their own expense from India, Mauritius, and other places.

PART II: THE SEARCH FOR EQUALITY, 1914-1982

Compromise on trial, 1914-1946
Protest and emerging defiance, 1947-1960
Towards a common cause, 1961-1982
Bibliographical note and further reading