ABSTRACT

The whole scene of the passive resistance struggle after Mr. G.K. Gokhale’s departure suddenly shifted from the Transvaal to Natal. In this chapter, the author recapitulates the chief events in Natal during those exciting days, together with the march into the Transvaal. Then, in conclusion, Mahatma Gandhi’s own words are used to describe the scene in the Transvaal and at the Cape, where the whole struggle was brought to an end by the signing of the Agreement between Mr. Gandhi and General Smuts. In the year 1913, after Mr. Gokhale had returned to India, the promise of the abolition of the £3 poll tax, levied from indentured labourers who had served their five years’ indenture, was not carried out. A judgment delivered in the Supreme Court on March 13, 1913, treated all Hindu and Muhammadan marriages as illegal and made the children of such marriages illegitimate.