Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Johannesburg in India. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
While the Government is successful in repressing the Indian protesters, the public outcry stemming from the harsh methods employed by the South African Government in the face of peaceful Indian protesters finally forced South African General Jan Chr
While the Government is successful in repressing the Indian protesters, the public outcry stemming from the harsh methods employed by the South African Government in the face of peaceful Indian protesters finally forced South African General Jan Chr
Calls on his fellow Indians to defy the new law and suffer the punishments for doing so, rather than resist through violent means
Start of a seven-year struggle in which thousands of Indians were jailed (including Gandhi), flogged, or even shot, for striking, refusing to register, burning their registration cards, or engaging in other forms of non-violent resistance.
The Transvaal Government promulgates a new Act compelling registration of the colonys Indian population, at a mass protest meeting Gandhi adopts his evolving methodology of satyagraha (devotion to the truth), or non-violent protest.
Calls on his fellow Indians to defy the new law and suffer the punishments for doing so, rather than resist through violent means
Start of a seven-year struggle in which thousands of Indians were jailed (including Gandhi), flogged, or even shot, for striking, refusing to register, burning their registration cards, or engaging in other forms of non-violent resistance.
The Transvaal Government promulgates a new Act compelling registration of the colonys Indian population, at a mass protest meeting Gandhi adopts his evolving methodology of satyagraha (devotion to the truth), or non-violent protest.
Provenance
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