ABSTRACT

The Europeans believed that as the Transvaal was under the British flag, the old laws of the Boer Republic directed against the Indians could be enforced. The goods stocked in the shops had been unceremoniously appropriated by the late Boer Government. A deputation waited upon Mr. Chamberlain in Natal. The officers in charge were some of the adventurers who had accompanied the army from India to South Africa during the war, and had settled there in order to try the luck. Many of us had hoped that the position of Indians throughout South Africa would improve after the Boer War. The goods stocked in the shops had been unceremoniously appropriated by the late Boer Government. Nevertheless, the deputation waited on him, in order that no legitimate step for obtaining redress might be omitted, whether by oversight or through a sense of wounded self-respect.