ABSTRACT

Reading through the pages of Indian Opinion, one is often momentarily disorientated as time and space between ‘South Africa’ and ‘India’ combine in unexpected ways. A headline, ‘Loyalty of Native Chiefs’, refers not to local African rulers as I first assumed but to the princely states (Indian Opinion July 30 1903). Under the headline, ‘The National Congress and Indians in South Africa’, a report of Dec. 13 1903 indicated that a meeting was to be held at ‘Tata Mansions, Waudby Road’. Are we in Durban or Bombay? An article in the edition of Sept. 26 1910 reads:

Mr GA Natesan writes in the Indian Review [a Madras publication]:- A cable from South Africa brings the news that the British Indians in the Transvaal are taking a vow of passive resistance as a protest against the recent Asiatic Amendment Bill.