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Indian Passive Resistance meeting (woman addressing the crowd), 1946

Indian Passive Resistance meeting (woman addressing the crowd), 1946

Passive Resistance 1946 was the second resistance movement waged by Indians in the country; the first was waged by Gandhi at the beginning of the century. The 1946 Campaign was seminal in the gestation of the anti-apartheid front, at home and abroad. it was the forerunner to the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign, organised jointly by the South African Indian Congress and African National Congress; it placed the issue of racism on the sanctions against South Africa. Women were greatly involved in the Campaign

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Mayibuye Centre