COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Thrown out of a 1st class train car and beaten
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Being removed from a restaurant in Durban with his family
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Not being allowed to live in certain parts of the city of Pretoria
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Having his law license removed because of his race
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Detailed explanation-1: -Settling in Natal, he was subjected to racism and South African laws that restricted the rights of Indian laborers. Gandhi later recalled one such incident, in which he was removed from a first-class railway compartment and thrown off a train, as his moment of truth.
Detailed explanation-2: -While he worked there, Gandhi saw the way Indian people were treated by the British colonizers. The racism and exploitation that Gandhi saw motivated him to become an independence activist for India.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gandhi fought with mixed success against South Africa’s system of discrimination. He founded the Natal Indian Congress, and his writings exposed to the world the injustices suffered by Indians and others. In 1906 satyagraha (“devotion to truth”) was born as a technique of nonviolent resistance.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was the first Satyagraha movement led by Gandhi in India and is considered a historically important revolt in the Indian Independence Movement.
Detailed explanation-5: -He organized and, with the help of a Dr. Booth, trained an Indian Ambulance Corps of 1, 100 volunteers and offered its services to the Government. The corps under Gandhi’s leadership rendered valuable service and was mentioned in dispatches.In 1901, at the end of the war, Gandhi wanted to return to India.