# Satyagraha in South Africa/Index

Index
ABDUL GANI, 102 Abdul Kadar Bavazir = Imamsaheb q. v. Abdulla Haji Adam Jhaveri, Sheth, 43 Abdul Rahman, Doctor, 13 Abubakar Amad, Sheth, 23, 33 Accounts, the importance of keeping proper, 122-3 Adajania, Sorabji Shapurji, 211 ff. Adam, Sheth Haji, 44 Adamji Miyankhan, 49 Agreements, golden rule for interpreting, 18 Ahmedabad, Satyagraha of the millhands in, xiii Aiyar, Sir Subrahmanya, 52 Albrecht, 252 Alexander, Mrs, helps to save the author from being lynched, 58-9 Alexander, Police Superintendent, contrives to save the author from mob fury, 59 ff., 185 Ali, 133 Ali, H. O., 118 ff. Allahabad, 50 Amad Bhayat, Sheth, 308 Ampthill, Lord, 228 ff., 325 Anandacharulu, P., 52 Andrews, C. F., 177, 270, 321-2, 324, 325, 327, 331, 333 Asiatic Department created, 83 ff., 85 ff. Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance, 97 ff. Asiatic Registration Act, 126 ff. Avesta, the, 242
BADARI SHIVPUJAN, 281 Badruddin Tyebji, 50 Bagasra, xii Balfour, 308-09 Banerji, Surendranath, 52 Basutos, the, 8 Beauty, false notions of, 9 Bechuanas, the, 8 Bhagavata, the, 10 Bhandarkar, Professor, 51 ff. Bhavani Dayal, Mrs, 278 Bhownuggree, Sir Muncherjee, 66 ff., 118 ff. Bible, the, 11 Blharilal Maharaj, 304 Bloemfontein, 5, 181 Bloemfontein jail, 312 Boers, the, 14; compel ‘natives’ to till land for them, 14; come into conflict with the English and ‘trek’ into the interior, 14; love their own language, 15-6; their large farms, 15; love of liberty, 15; their women equally brave, 16, 17; their religion, 16 Boer War, the, 14, 66 ff.; Indian ambulance corps in, 75 ff. Bombay, xii, 49, 52, 81 Booth, Dr, 76 Boston tea party, 204 Botha, General, 15, 17 ff., 108, 130 ff., 156, 182, 228 ff., 267, 268 Briscoe, Dr, 294, 299 Buller, General, 77
​CALCUTTA, 49, 52, 257 Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, 17, 19 Cape Colony, the, 5, 13, 19, 25, 36; Indian grievances in, 36 ff. Cape of Good Hope, 5 Cape Town, 5, 6, 8, 13, 36, 262 Cartwright, Albert, 154 ff., 181, 196 Chamberlain, 62 ff., 69, 81 Chamney, 168 ff., 307, 309 Champaran, Satyagraha in, xii, xiii, 84 Charlestown, 290, 294 ff., 297 ff. Chelmsford, Lord, xii Chesney, 50 Christ, 12, 16, 114, 172 Christopher, A., 295 Clifford, Dr, 112 Clothes, the philosophy of, 10 ‘Colour Bar’ In legislation, 29, 87 ff. Co-education on Tolstoy Farm, 243 ff. Constitution of the Union of South Africa, how framed, 19 ff. Courland, s. s., 52 ff. Crewe, Lord, 228 Cronje, General, 14, 80 Cullinan, the, the world’s largest diamond, 4 Curtis, Lionel, 93, 96, 109 Curzon, Lord, 79
DADA ABDULLA, Indian firm in Durban, 41-3, 52 ff. Dadabhai Naoroji, 65 ff., 118 ff. Dadibarjor, Dr, 59 Daily Mail, the, 204 Daily Star, the, 154 Damania, N., 238 Daud Muhammad, Sheth, 185, 216 ff. Deccan Sabha, 51 ff. Defence of India Act, 94 Delagoa Bay, 4, 38, 178 Deportation to India, Satyagrahis punished with, 221 ff. Desai, Pragji Khandubhai, 216, 238, 241 De Wet, General, 15 Dharma-yuddha, xiv Dick, Miss, 179 Diepkloof prison, hunger strike in, 226 Doctor, Mrs J. M., 281 Doke, Miss Olive, 170 Doke, Rev. J., 142, 168 ff., 179, 181 Doukhobors of Russia, 115 Drew, Rev. Dewdney, 181 Drugless healing on Tolstoy Farm, 247 ff., 254 ff. Duncan, 108 Dundee, 309-10 Durban, 4, 6, 8, 41-3, 54 ff., 141, 175, 177, 184 ff., 290 ff.; the author mobbed in, 58
EDWARD, KING, 16 Elgin, Lord, 28, 118 ff., 120; his crooked policy, 124 ff. Ellis, 262 Emigration Act, the Indian, xii Empire, the British, 19 English, the, in South Africa, 14; defeated by the Dutch at Majuba, 14; in Natal, 21 Escombe, Harry, 22, 45, 54, 75 Esselen, 322, 327 Europeans’ argument for excluding Indians from South Africa, 90 European traders, their relations with Negroes, 24
FARRAR, SIR GEORGE, 121 Food on Tolstoy Farm, 246 Fourth Resolution, the famous, 102 ​Friend, the, 181
GANDHI, C. K., 281 Gandhi, Harilal Mohandas, 216 Gandhi, Maganlal Khushalchand, 109, 177, 320 Gandhi, Mrs Kasturba, 280-1 Gandhi, Mrs K. C., 281 Gandhi, Mrs S. M., 281 Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, the author, leaves India for South Africa in Dada Abdulla’s case, 41; lands in Durban, 41; is pushed out of the train at Maritzburg and insulted in other ways, 42-3; but sees the case through, 43; admitted as advocate of the Supreme Court of Natal, 45; helps to found the Natal Indian Congress, 45 ff.; and the Natal Indian Educational Association, 47; returns to India, 48; writes pamphlet on condition of Indians in South Africa, 50; meets Lokamanya, 50: and Gokhale, 51; addresses meetings in Poona and Madras, 52; recalled to South Africa, 52; mobbed in Durban, 57 ff.; but declines to prosecute assailants, 62 ff.; serves upon the ambulance corps in the Boer War, 75; returns to India and starts practice in Bombay, but is called to South Africa again, 81; opens an attorney’s office in Johannesburg, 85; joins the Indian Stretcher-bearer Corps in the Zulu ‘rebellion’, 97 ff.; his speech adumbrating Satyagraha, 104 ff.; serves on deputation to England, 118; starts Indian Opinion and founds Phoenix Settlement, 141 ff.; gets two months’ imprisonment, 148 ff.; his experiences in Johannesburg jail, 149 ff.; comes to terms with the Government on behalf of the Indians, 154 ff.; but is opposed and assaulted, 161 ff.; nursed by the Dokes, 168 ff.; his attempt to cast out fear, 186; charged with cunning, 207; in prison again, 220; goes to England on a second deputation, 227 ff.; writes Hind Swaraj, 231; his experiment of co-education, 243 ff.; experiments in drugless healing, 247 ff., 254 ff.; rejection of milk, 257; insistence upon speaking in the mother tongue, 265; requests Gokhale to speak in Marathi, 265-66; meets the mine-owners in connection with Indian labourers’ strike, 291 ff.; goes with the strikers to Charlestown, 294 ff.; and with them crosses over into the Transvaal, 297 ff.; gets nine months’ imprisonment at Dundee, 310; and three months’ at Volksrust, 310; released after six weeks, 322; meets General Smuts, 327 ff.; negotiates provisional agreement, 330 ff.; his letter to General Smuts marking the end of the Satyagraha struggle, 336 ff.; leaves South Africa for England en route to India, 338 Gandhi, R. M., 281 Germiston, 111, 137 Ghelanl, M. M., 219 Ghorkhodu Rustomji Jivanji = Parsi Rustomji q. v. ​Gibson, J. C., 167 Gita, the Bhagavad, 244 Godfrey, George, 83 Gokhale, Gopal Krishna, 37, 50; the author meets, 51, 80, 177, 212; his visit to Tolstoy Farm, 248; tour in South Africa, 260 ff., 272 ff., 278, 306, 315, 321, 331, 338 Gokuldas, H., 281 Govindarajulu, V., 281 Greylingstad, 307-8 Griffin, Sir Lepel, 118 Gujarat, xiii, 23 Gujarati, 47, 99, 102, 132, 141-2, 241, 243, 247, 279
HABIB, SHETH HAJI, 102 ff., 108, 228 ff. Harbatsinh, 311 Hardinge, Lord, 270, 315, 324, 325, 327 Heidelberg, 308 Henry, on finger prints, 101 Hertzog, General, 15, 227 Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule), 231, 232 Hindi, 102, 141, 247 Hindu, the, 52 Hobhouse, Miss, 181 Hosken, 111 ff., 131 ff., 180, 196 Hunger strike in jail, 226 Hunter, Sir W. W., 22, 66 ff., 118 Husen Daud, 217
IMAMSAHEB, 218 Indentured Indian labour, stopping of, xii India, Government of, 21 ff. Indian Ambulance Corps in the Boer War, 75 Indian immigration restricted in Natal, 31 Indian labourers reach Natal, 21; their condition bordering on slavery, 22, 23; Europeans’ agitation against them, 26; poll-tax imposed upon them upon expiry of indenture, 28; strike work, 282, 286 ff.; march into the Transvaal, 293 ff.; sent back to Natal and cruelly compelled to work, 314 ff.; but secure a repeal of the poll-tax in the end, 335 Indian Opinion, 97, 99, 108, 109, 141, 145, 177, 179 ff., 184, 186, 197, 198, 231, 234, 273, 278, 320 Indian settlers, their hardships in Natal, 26 ff.; in the Transvaal, 32 ff.; in Orangia, 35, 36; in the Cape Colony, 36 ff.; divided among themselves, 39-40; their resistance to an attempt to disfranchise them in Natal, 43; form ambulance corps in the Boer War, 75 ff.; undergo voluntary registration, 94; and get the Asiatic Ordinance as reward, 96 ff.; raise a Stretcher-bearer Corps in the Zulu ‘rebellion,’ 97 ff.; declare Satyagraha against the Asiatic Act, 102 ff.; send a deputation to England, 116 ff., inaugurate a fresh body for Satyagraha struggle, 128; send 150 of their number to jail, 152; reach with General Smuts a settlement, 154 ff.; which is repudiated, 189 ff.; send an ultimatum to the Transvaal Government, 198 ff.; make a bonfire of registration certificates, 202 ff.; charged with forcing fresh issue, 206 ff.; send a second deputation to England, 228 ff. etc. ​Indians, ‘free’ 23-24 Indians Relief Bill, 335 Indian Stretcher-bearer Corps in the Zulu ‘rebellion’, 97 ff. Indian traders enter South Africa, 22; their relations with Negroes, 24 ff.; disfranchised in Natal, 29; restrictions imposed upon them, 30 Iyengar, Bhashyam, 52
JAIL, JOHANNESBURG, author’s experiences in, 149 ff.; clothing in, 149, 150; diet in, 152 ff. Jail, Pretoria, 220 Jail, Volksrust, 220, 311 Jameson, Dr, his raid on Johannesburg, 68 Java, 13 Johannesburg, 3, 4, 19, 68 ff., 85, 96, 97, 98, 111, 130, 149, 154, 157, 178, 184, 202, 213 ff., 234, 239, 262 ff. John King of Portugal, 5 Joshi, H. I., 98 Juhu, xiv, xv
KACHHALIA, A. M., 132 ff., 148, 173, 179, 192 ff., 213, 308, 320 Kallenbach, H., 178 ff., 234, 236, 238, 240 ff., 248-9, 257, 262 ff., 269, 295, 298, 302-3, 304, 310-11, 313, 322 Kashmir, 3 Kenilworth Castle, s. s., 228 Kheda, Satyagraha in, xiii Khllafat wrong, Satyagraha against, xiii Kildonan Castle, s. s., 231 Kitchener, Lord, 16, 18, 80, 182 Kitchin, Herbert, 141, 180 Klerksdorp, 262 Kohinoor, the, 4 Koran, the, 242 Kotval, P. K., 247, 248 Kruger, President, 15, 33, 68 Krugersdorp, 262
LADYSMITH 71, 77, 78 ff. Lansdowne, Lord, 32, 81 Laughton, F. A., 55 Lawley, 235, 254 Lawley, Sir Arthur, 85 Lazarus, D., 287, 290 Locations, Indians segregated In, 35 Lukin, General, 316, 317 Lutavan, 255
MADANJIT VYAVAHARIK, 175 ff. Madeira, 120, 124, 126 Madras, 49, 52, 223, 315 Madras Standard, the, 52 Majuba Hill, 14 Malays, the, 13, 36 Marathi, Gokhale requested to speak in, 265-6 Mariannhill, Trappist monastery at, 240 Maritzburg = Pietermaritzburg q. v. Mauritius, 22, 23, 147 Meat excluded from Tolstoy Farm, 236-7 Medh, S. B., 98, 216 Mehta, Dr Pranjivan Jagjivan, 212 Mehta, Sir Pherozeshah Merwanji, 50, 283 Mehtab, Bai Fatma, 297 Merriman, 37, 228 Milk, the propriety of rejecting, 257 Milner, Lord, 17 ff., 69, 70, 85, 86, 89, 93, 154, 181 Mir Alam, 167 ff., 187, 204 Mirabai, 297 Molteno, Miss, 182 Molteno, Sir John, 36 Moodaley, Jack, 185-6 ​Morley, Lord, 32, 118, 228 Moses, 16 Motilal, the Vadhvan worker, xi Mudallar, K. M., 281 Mudaliar, Valliamma, 283-4 Mudalingam, Mrs R. A., 278
NADERI, s. s., 52 ff. Nagappan, Swami, 224 £f. Naidoo, Mrs A. P., 278 Naidoo, Mrs P. K., 213 Naidoo, Mrs Thambi, 278 Naidoo, P. K., 223, 295, 303, 304 Naidoo, Thambi, 147, 148, 156, 167, 238 Nanabhai Harldas, Mr Justice, 55 Narayanswaml, 225 Natal, 4, 5, 19, 21 ff.; Indians’ grievances in, 26 ff., 37, 52, 53, 87; passim Natal Indian Congress, the, founded, 45 ff. Natal Indian Educational Association founded, 47 Natal Mercury, the, 43 Natesan, G. A., 223 Navajivan, 51 Nawabkhan, 153 Nazar, M. H., 55, 67, 80, 141 Negroes, the, of South Africa, 8; their physique, 8-9; huts, 9; clothing, 10; food innocent of spices or condiments, 10-11; languages, 11; religion, 11; truthfulness, 11; timidity, 11-12; ‘civilization’ leads them into vice and disease, 12-3, 21; their relations with Indian and European traders, 24 Newcastle, 279, 282, 286, 293, 295 Norton, Mr, 52
ORANGE FREE STATE = Orangia q. v. Orangia, 5, 14, 25; Indian grievances in, 35 ff. Orloff, the, 4
PALMFORD, 302 Parbhusingh, an Indian, assigned most responsible work at the siege of Ladysmith, 79 Parsi Rustomji, 56 ff., 185, 216, 223, 281 Passive Resistance, phrase first used to denote the Indian struggle but since given up, 109-10; distinguished from Satyagraha, 111 Patel, M. H., 281 Patel, R. M., 281 Peace Preservation Ordinance, 94 Pearson, Willie, 177, 270, 322 Permanent funds, the impropriety of managing public bodies with, 129 Petit, Mrs Jaiji, xii Phillips, Rev. Charles, 181 Phoenix, 97, 98, 141, 177, 184 ff., 219, 234, 274, 278, 315, 320 Phuka, the cruel practice of, 257 Pietermaritzburg, 4; author pushed out of the train at, 42, 43 Pietermaritzburg jail, 283 Pillai Parameshvaran, 52 Pillay, Miss B. M., 278 Pillay, Miss Minachl, 278 Pillay, Mrs K. C., 278 Pillay, Mrs K. Murugasa, 278 Pillay, Mrs N., 278 Pillay, Mrs N. S., 278 Pioneer, the, 50 Polak, H. S. L., 142, 177, 306 ff., 322 ff. ​Poll-tax on Indian labourers, 28 Poona, 50 ff. Porbandar, 23, 41, 52 Portugal, 5 Portuguese, the, 4 Potchefstroom, 262 Pretoria, 4, 41, 42 ff., 81 ff., 130, 148, 157, 218, 261, 267 ff., 325, 327 Pretoria News, the, 181 Progression, law of, applicable to all righteous movements, 208-10 Punjab wrong, the Satyagraha against, xiii
QUINN, LEUNG, 146, 156
RAGHU NARASU, 304 Rahimkhan, 304 Rajendraprasad, Babu, xii Rajkot, xii Raju Govindu, 281 Rama Sundara, Pandit, 137 Ramzan on Tolstoy Farm, 247 Ranade, Mahadev Govind, 50 Redmond, 119 Reuter sends exaggerated summary of the author’s speeches to South Africa, 52 Rickshaw, the author spared the shame of a—ride, 58 Ripon, Lord, 29, 44, 46 Ritch, L. W., 119, 120, 124, 177, 260 Roberts, Lord, 14 Robertson, Sir Benjamin, 327, 330, 331, 333 Rose Innes, Sir James, 323 Roosevelt, President, 92 Rowlatt Act, the, xiii; Satyagraha against, xiii Royeppen, Joseph, 219, 238 Royeppen, Solomon, 281 Rule, the golden, for the interpretation of agreements, 18
SAIYAD IBRAHIM, 286 Sandals made on Tolstoy Farm, 240-1 Sanitary arrangements on Tolstoy Farm, 239-40 Sarvajanik Sabha, 51 ff. Satyagraha, advent of, 102 ff.; implications of, xiv, 17, 92-3, 187-8, 209-10, 285, 306; invention of the term, 109-10; distinguished from passive resistance, 111: fresh association organized for, 128 ff. Satyagraha in India in respect of Viramgam customs, xi, xii; as regards the stopping of indentured 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, 253; their chivalry, 325-6 Saunders, 52 Saurashtra, xi, 23, 41 Savage, Dr, 97 Schlesin, Miss Sonja, 178 ff., 295, 320 Schreiner, Olive, 37, 182 ff. Schreiner, W. P., 36, 37, 262, 323 Searle, Mr Justice, 276 ff. Selborne, Lord, 32, 81, 85 Servants, no domestic—on Tolstoy Farm, 236 Shelat, U. M., 98 Shukadeva, 10 Sinha, Ramnarayan, 304 Smuts, General, 15, 17, 90, 130 ff., 154 ff.; his breach of faith (?), 189 ff.; 207 ff., 228 ff., 267, 272, 300, 306, 321 ff. ​Snakes on Tolstoy Farm, 252 ff. Socrates, 298 Sodha, Ratansi Muljl, 216 Sodha, Revashankar R,, 281 Solomon, Sir Richard, 124 ff. Sorabji Rustomji, 317 South Africa, climate, 3; geography, 4 ff.; cereals, fruits etc., 5, 6; cattle, 6; landscape, 6; rivers, 6 ff.; agriculture, 7; seasons and rainfall, 7; the Negroes of, 8 ff.; area and population, 8 ff.; the Dutch in, 13 ff.; the Malays in, 13; Indians in, 21 ff. Standerton, 307 Stead, W. T., 17, 182 Stent, Vere, 181 Subrahmanyam, G., 52 Subrahmanyam, Indian labourer, assaulted by his master, 53 Surat, 23 Swaraj, the fight for, xiii, xiv Swazis, the, 8 Symonds, 121
TAAL, THE BOER LANGUAGE, 15 Table Mountain, 6 Tagore, Maharaja J. M., 52 Taib Haji Khanmamad, Indian firm in Pretoria, 41 Tamil, 102, 141, 241, 243, 279 Tata, Sir Ratanjl, 232 Teaching children on Tolstoy Farm, 241 Teakworth, 307 Telugu, 102, 241, 243, 279 Testament, the New, 16 Testament, the Old, 16, 33 Theatre, Empire (Johannesburg), Indians declare Satyagraha at meeting in, 102 ff. Thwaites, Dr, 169 Tibet, 3 Tilak, Lokamanya, 51 ff. Tolstoy, 115, 188 Tolstoy Farm, 133, 232 ff., 298 Transvaal, the, gold and diamond mines in, 4, 14, 25; Indian grievances in, 32 ff., 38, 81, passim Transvaal Immigrants Restriction Act, 206 Transvaal Leader, the, 154, 304 Tulsidas, 286
UNION, THE, OF SOUTH AFRICA, 19
VADHVAN, xi, Vereeniging, the Peace of, 17, 18, 278 Vernon, Police Superintendent, 156, 215 Verulam, 315, 316 Victoria, Queen, 14 Vihari, 238 Viramgam customs cordon, Satyagraha as regards, xi, xii, xiv Volksrust, 214, 218, 290, 297, 299 ff., 310
WASHINGTON, BOOKER T., 92 Weakness, the duty of judging—charitably, 139, 225 Wedderburn, Sir W., 65 ff., 119 West, Albert, 174, 320, 321 West, Miss Ada, 176, 320 White, General, 77 Wylie, Col., 323, 327
YAJNIK, INDULAL, xiv Yeravda Jail, xiv Young India, 51 ​Yusuf Mian, 130, 158, 167, 192, 204
ZANZIBAR, 178, 266, 269 Zulu ‘rebellion’, Indian stret­cher-bearers in, 97 Zulus, the, 8 ff., 21