In May, 1893, a 24-year old attorney arrived at Durban on a year's Girmit (Contract) to fight a lawsuit for Dada Abdullah and Co. thrown out of the train to Pretoria, he was to taste the racial discrimination that plagued the land at that time. Subsequent experiences in South Africa sensitized him to the plight of the Girmitiyas (Bonded Labours). Suspended between despair and a hope for an implausible escape to their promised land, the Girmitiyas found in ...
