Pioneers of Satyagraha

by E.S. Reddy, Kalpana Hiralal

Enuga S. Reddy and Kalpana Hiralal have, with focused attention and total commitment to accuracy and objectivity, vivified a great passage in the history of decolonization and the great Afro-Asian awakening. They tell us how the struggles of the people of Indian origin in South Africa began in the first decade of the twentieth century, deepening and widening with each phase in its progress, flowing into the much larger movement for the dismantling of apartheid on that land. They have enriched our knowledge of the panoramic sweep of what is seen as Gandhi's historic struggle, to show how ably and definingly he was supported and inspired by his fellow satyagrahis, who included amazingly gifted and courageous women, and like the men in it, came from all the Indian communities living there. The book is a masterpiece of historiography, documentation and insightful research, placing on the table little known and less understood facts. -Gopalkrishna Gandhi

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Published June 20, 2017