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In May, 1893, a 24-year old attorney arrived at Durban on a years 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 this young
attorney a voice that would guide them to a new dawn.
In The Girmitiya Saga, Giriraj Kishore retraces the socio-political background
of the 19 and 20
In May, 1893, a 24-year old attorney arrived at Durban on a years 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 this young
attorney a voice that would guide them to a new dawn.
In The Girmitiya Saga, Giriraj Kishore retraces the socio-political background
of the 19 and 20