The pioneers on the Truro and Belvedere/ The four Vedas

Truro and Belvedere, Vedas
Collection: 
Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre
Creator: 
Singh
S S and Ranji S. Nowbath
Resource Type: 
Articles
Language: 
English
Coverage: 
South Africa
File Type: 
Document
Extent: 
3 pages
Rights Holder: 
UKZN Ghandi-Luthuli Documentation Centre

THE first batch of indentured Indians arrived in Natal in the paddle-steamer, the S.S. " Truro " The ship left Madras on October 13, 1860, and reached Durban on November 16, 1860. The disembarkation took place on November 17. The boat weighed approximately 1,970 gross tons and was about 217 feet long. The passengers slept in open berths.

THE literal meaning of the word Veda is both "knowledge" and " supreme knowledge " . Secondarily, the term is applied to four books of scriptures belonging to the ancient Indo-Aryans who crossed the Indus and settled on the Indo-Gangetic Plain, prob-ably· at some period between 2000 and 1500 B.C

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