Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre
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Letter from Mair to Phyllis Naidoo. |
Letter from Mair to Phyllis Naidoo. |
| Early Indian Indentured Labour |
Individual images of early Indian Indentured labourers in the Colony of Natal |
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| Early Indian Settlers |
Early Indian Settlers |
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| Early Indenture Indian families |
Image of early Indentured Indian Labour in the Colony of Natal |
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| Indian Family outside hut |
Beyond indenture and until the 1960s, the majority of the descendants of the Indian indentured continued to experience abnormal family life ... |
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| Sugar cane fields |
Labourers on the Cane fields |
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| Arrival of Indians |
The Coolies Here from the Natal Mercury", ... However, we published intelligence which left no doubt as to the speedy arrival of the ... who boarded the Truro at daylight, and found that the Indian was in ... |
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| Sugar Cane Cutting |
he majority of Indian South Africans are the descendants of indentured workers brought to Natal between 1860 and 1911 to develop the sugar indus |
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| Workers planting sugar cane |
Sugar cane flourished so much in Natal that the first mill was set up on the ... Indenture is a type of debt servitude, but is different from slavery. ... But it was not all that sweet for the sugar plantation workers once they arrived. |
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| Painting of Sugar and other occupations of Indentured Indians in Natal |
By 1904, there were over 1 300 employers of indentured Indians in Natal. |
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| Painting Arrival of Indians |
Painting of Arrival of Indians in Natal |
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| Natal Sugar Belt |
The Natal Coastal Belt,owing to its peculiar environment and comparative isolation from the remainder of the country, presents ... rise until 1960, and absolute decline only occurred in ... the North coast, twenty-seven sugar mills were in opera-. |
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| Indians disembarking |
The arrival and settlement of Indentured Indians in Natal inevitably paved way for 'free' ... When he attempted to disembark at the Point, together ... |
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| Indian Immigrants at the Bluff, Durban |
rrival of the first indentured Indians, an event that was to have far-reaching results for the ... labour and would thus be a useful immigrant in the colony where ... brought ashore in small boats and then transferred to the Depot on the. Bluff. |
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| Immigrants arriving at Port Natal in 1900 |
The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa. It was proclaimed a British ... The next step was taken by the settlers at the port, |
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| Arrival of Indians in Boats |
THE INDENTURED IMMIGRANTS WHO SPOKE TAMIL AND TELUGU ... THIS 2 X 2 METRE MURAL FORMS A SPECIAL TRIBUTE ... |
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| Indenture labourers arrive in boats in Port Natal |
Approximately 152,184 indentured Indians arrived under the scheme of indenture ... The ports of Madras and Calcutta served as the points of embarkation. ... |
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| Places Indians came from |
Between 1842 and 1870 a total of 525,482 Indians emigrated to the British and French Colonies. |
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| Areas Indenture Indians emigrated |
Between 1842 and 1870 a total of 525,482 Indians emigrated to the British and French Colonies. |
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| Sugar cane crusher |
Farmer over looks the Sugarcane crusher in the early 1900s |