Passage From India - Mary Phillips SIGNED ( Indians in South Africa)

Hardcover with DJ. Purnell & Sons 1974. 48 pages.

A few small nicks to edge of dust cover. Inscribed on ffep and also signed by author. ( see pics below). Please feel free to ask questions.

" This is the author's description of how Indians were first settled in South Africa in 1860.

The expansion of Britain's influence in the mid-nineteenth century coincided with her industrial revolution and the necessity of finding fresh outlets for the large quantity of her newly mass-manufactured goods which would supply her with much needed foreign exchange. As a direct result of this expansion, millions of India's skilled craftsmen and artisans became completely redundant in a country which, for two thousand years, had thrived on her dominant position in world trade. Countless thousands of her mainly peasant population were gradually reduced to poverty and experienced the resultant wave of famine.

Descendants of those generations of proud craftsmen, through force of tragic circumstances, bound themselves for a five-year term to work for unknown masters in the tropical plantations of the world. With the abolition of slavery this discovery of so economical a source of man-power was indeed a windfall and no plantation owner failed to take advantage of it"

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