Gandhi in South Africa

@article{Power1969GandhiIS,
  title={Gandhi in South Africa},
  author={Paul F. Power},
  journal={The Journal of Modern African Studies},
  year={1969},
  volume={7},
  pages={441 - 455},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154872727}
}
The centenary of Mahatma Gandhi's birth during 1969 (October 2) provides a reason for reassessments of the Indian leader's thought and career. Among the matters which deserve reconsideration is his South African phase, which began in 1893, on his arrival in Natal as a fledgling barrister, and ended in 1914, when he left for India by way of England to begin his main work as an Indian nationalist. A reappraisal of this period is needed principally because there is a tendency in biographical… 
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