‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… years. In 1894 merchants formed the Natal Indian Congress (NIC), with Gandhi as secretary, to protect their trade, franchise and residence rights. Each of the NIC’s six presidents between 1894 and 1913 was a prominent … merchants. [16] Until 1899 the strategy of Gandhi and the NIC was primarily one of writing letters to local newspapers …