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CONTENTS:

Part I: Aliens in South Africa, 1860-1914

Social situations | Trade and residence | Immigration | Constitutional and political issues | Satyagraha

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

Part I: Aliens in South Africa, 1860-1914

Social situations

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Introduction

1.   The whole Coolies petition the Durban Corporation for better wages

2.   Moothen pleads for his wife to be returned

3.   Charge of assault against an estate manager

4.   Complaint of ill-treatment on an estate

5.   Muslims of Durban complain about the vexatious curfew law

6.   Tonight, have your door open

7.   Madras merchants protest against an order to uncover and remove their boots in court

8.   Pillay and others petition the Viceroy of India

9.   In search of better employment

10. Seedat writes to his brother in India

11. A Brahman seeks work in Natal

12. The pickled money-order receipt

13. Wife lays bigamy charge

14. Suicide among indentured labourers

15. My son Gyapershad was decoyed

16. Advice to a son about coming to Natal

17. Latief insists on his right to travel by any train

18. Narayanan searches for his wife and child

19. Lawrence asks for exemption from discriminatory laws

20. Johannesburg Parsees claim special status

21. Pariah constables pollute Hindus

22. Natal sirdars regarded in India as pariah dogs

Trade and residence

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Introduction

23. Durban merchants plead for Sunday trading

24. Muslim traders petition against Free State law

25. ‘Free State’ implies equality, declare traders

26. Johannesburg merchants answer their detractors

27. Transvaal Indians respond to the 1895 arbitration decision

28. The Dealer’s Licences Act is an attempt to weed out smaller traders

29. Removal to locations: the people are terrified

30. Potchefstroom traders: we please the poorest class of customers

31. Cape traders protest against the Hawkers’ Licences Act

Immigration

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Introduction

32. An unjust and uncalled-for Immigration Bill, 1894

33. Restrictive legislation against Indians not warranted

34. Further immigration restrictions, 1903

35. Colour legislation in the Orange River Colony

36. The fault of Indian immigrants is their poverty and their skin

37. Deputation to Lord Selbourne

Constitutional and political issues

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Introduction

38. The Natal Franchise Bill, 1894: Do not make our sons pariahs

39. Second report of the Natal Indian Congress, 1899

40. 1903 reviewed by Indian Opinion

41. Statement of Indians to the Transvaal Constitution Committee

42. Petition from Indians at the time of the Union

43. Resolutions adopted at a mass meeting of the Natal Indian Patriotic Congress, 1909

Satyagraha

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Introduction

44. Gandhi explains satyagraha

45. Mass meeting at the Empire Theatre, Johannesburg, 1906

46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained

47. The assault on Gandhi

48. Breach of the compromise

49. The certificates are burned

50. The campaign resumed in 1913

51. The satyagraha campaign ends

52. Gandhi: my experiences, 1914

53. The significance of the settlement for the colonial-born Indian

Part II: The search for equality, 1914-1982

Compromise on trial, 1914-1946

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Introduction

54. South African Indian Congress: first annual report, 1924

55. S.A.I.C. deputation sees the Minister of the Interior, 1925

56. The Cape Town Agreement is welcomed

57. The Agreement does not touch the root of anti-Asiaticism

58. Congress has sold our rights

59. The South African Federation challenges Congress over the settlement

60. Congress and Non-European Co-operation Conference, 1927

61. Segregation reduces our people to helotry

62. Congress defends its stand on the colonisation scheme

63. Colonisation scheme: the colonial-born Indians respond

64. Congress addresses the Union Parliament, 1946

Protest and emerging defiance, 1947-1960

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Introduction

65. Letter from the Natal Indian Congress to Smuts, 1945

66. G.M. Naicker: We will not colloborate

67. The Xuma-Naicker-Dadoo pact, 1947

68. Passive resistance, 1946-7

69. ‘Moderate Indians’ form the Natal Indian Organisation

70. The Durban riots, 1949

71. The Group Areas Act

72. The Defiance Campaign, 1953

73. The Congress of the People, June 1955

74. The Freedom Charter, 1955

75. 1960: We are at a turning-point in the history of our country

76. The Indian people are an integral part of South Africa

Towards a common cause, 1961-1982

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Introduction

77. The South African Indian Council: an assessment from within, 1978

78. The Natal Indian Congress calls for a national convention

79. Indian Parliament: separate can’t be equal

80. Local affairs committees: a means to an end

81. The People’s Candidates Party and the Lenasia Management Committee

82. The President’s Council

83. South African Indian Council elections, November 1981: To vote or not to vote

84. The South African Indian Council: A. Rajbansi’s opening speech, 1982

85. Charter for Change, 1981

86. Non-racial sport

87. Today’s lessons are tomorrow’s weapons for students

88. Gandhi’s legacy

Bibliographical note and further reading

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