ABSTRACT
Despite all his efforts, Gandhi was powerless to stop the promulgation of a new law on immigration. The conditions were intolerable because the Indians who arrived in the country on a five-year contract could not take on another contract if they wished to stay on in the country. During the years before the Boer wars, that turned everything upside down, he could always oppose a single law, a much higher legislation, that of the British Empire. A cable dated 14 September was printed in the dailies in Natal, violently criticizing the brochure that 'claims that the Indians in Natal are the butt of the worst violence, treated like animals and unable to change their situation. With the new challenges and fresh affronts that the Indians were soon going to be faced with, Gandhi could not but leave India again to renew the fight against the Boers.
