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27) 01/19
Mahatma Gandhi – Pushed out of Train
(FIRST CLASS COACH. SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAYS. INTERIOR.NIGHT. ]
ung
every
Featuring the young Indian; it is the
right.
Gandhi -
- a full head of hair, a somewhat
living pleasure to senses
He is lost in his book and there is a slight
mile on his face as though what he reads
dogw interest
rigues and surprises him. He grins suddenly
some insight, then looks out of the window,
eighing the idea. As he does a European
uses the compartment and stops dead on seeing an Indian face in the First
Station TI
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Well, we’re coming up to the station,” announces tour guide Shiney Bright to the people eagerly awaiting to disembark. It might be unique that a group of Indian travellers wants to see a railway station — of all places. But then, this is Pietermaritzburg.
The platforms of the station are empty — they aren’t expecting any trains anytime soon — but a trip there is bound to make any Indian traveller patriotic. It was at Pietermaritzburg station that a young lawyer named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was pushed out of a first-class compartment, thus prompting him to think about race and colour prejudices. This nondescript, not-so-busy station in South Africa is known worldwide today as the ‘Birthplace of Sathyagraha
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