jpdaa.blogg.se - Mahatma gandhi full name

A new act was promulgated by Transvaal govt in 1906 as per this Act, every male Asian had to register himself and produce on-demand a thumb-printed certificate of identity.

He helped found the Natal Indian Congress in 1894, and through this organization, he molded the Indian community of South Africa into a unified political force.

He asked Joseph Chamberlain, the British Colonial Secretary, to reconsider his position on this bill. Gandhi witnessed racism, prejudice, injustice against himself and Indians in South Africa, after witnessing all this, Gandhi extended his original period of stay in South Africa to help Indians in opposing a bill to deny them the right to vote.