Mahatma gandhi south africa history of colonization

'The best part of my life' is how Gandhi described his days in South Africa twenty-five years after he had left it.

It was certainly the most formative period of his career. Without the challenges, the trials, and the opportunities that his South African experience brought him, it is unlikely that his personality and politics could have been cast in the unique mould which made him one of the most charismatic and creative leaders of the twentieth century.

Curiously, it was an accident that provided the impulse for Gandhi's visit to South Africa in Two years earlier, he had returned from England after qualifying as a barrister.

Gandhi in south africa wikipedia

He started his legal career in Bombay, but made little headway, and decided to settle at Rajkot in Gujarat to make a modest living. He, however, fell foul of Ollivant, the British Political Agent in Rajkot, in whose court most of his work lay.

It was at this time that Dada Abdullah, an Indian merchant in Natal, offered to engage him for a ci