This thesis highlights the ebbs and flows of the Indian minority's struggles against the systematic and unjust segregation of mankind along racial lines. Their courage and principled resistance as well as their fears as a minority during the period of 1971 to 1985, are captured in this study. It begins by briefly tracing the community's struggles from the early 1860s, against the racist laws that targeted them, to how by the 1950s closer inter-ethnic ties were forged with the other oppressed groups and joint struggles against apartheid were launched. The political and socio-cultural resistance of the community in the province of Natal, during the period concerned, is the subject of detailed scrutiny. Based upon primary materials collected by the author from South Africa, the thesis seeks to capture the dynamics of Indian resistance during these tumultuous years.....