Passage from India by Mary Phillips
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Passage from India - How India / Indians First Settled in South Africa by Mary Phillips
Hardcover
Publisher: Purnell Pub., Great Britian, England, UK., 1974 first edition.
Condition: Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The DJ has some limited signs of wear and tear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
Story of Indian migration and settlement in South Africa, starting in 1860, as skilled craftsmen and artisans fell victim to poverty and famine during Britain's industrial revolution. Forty-eight pages, illustrated.
Dust Jacket. First Edition By This Publisher,. 48 pages.Large Oversized Hardcover; Many Full Page Color Photo's;
"Indians were first settled in South Africa in 1860. The expansion of Britain's influence in the mid-ninteenth century coincided with her industrial revolution and the necessity of finding fresh outlets for the vast quantity of her newly mass-manufacted 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 thoursand years, had thrived on her dominant position in world trade. Countless thousands of her maninly 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 inthe 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.
