why did m.k Gandhi not pay extra five shillings for a bedding when he was travelling from Durban to Pretoria?
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi arrived in South Africa 24 May 1893 to attend to a legal matter of Dada Abdullah Jhaveri. Dada Abdullah, whohailed from Porbandar, knew of M.K. Gandhi and hiredhim, as he apart from being a London trained lawyer also spoke Gujarati. This was a perfect fit for the Durban based merchantkeen to resolve a family commercial dispute.
Within weeks of Mahatma Gandhi’s arrival in Durban, he was asked to travel to Pretoria to settle the dispute. On 7th June 1893, he was thrown off the First Class compartment of a Pretoria bound train in Pietermaritzburg. The young lawyer spent the night in the Waiting Hall on the deserted railway station. The humiliation that he went through convinced him to take on a greater call to fight for the rights of Indians in South Africa. He soon mobilised Indians in Durban and in 1894 the Natal Indian Congress was born to look into the question voting rights for Indians. After three years of stay and struggle in the country, Mahatma Gandhi return to India in 1896. But the same year, on the request of the Natal Indian Congress, he returned to Durban. This time he came with his family.On the arrival of his ship in Durban Harbour, there was a massive protest by the white communitywho would not allow him to disembark.His ship was kept in quarantine for about three weeks and when he was finally allowed to come ashore he was attached by a mob and brutally beaten. His trusted friend and supporter ParsiRustomji came to his safety.