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women he’d dispatched
:
Star
, Nov. 1, 1913.
    23    
The procession
: Bhana and Pachai,
Documentary History of Indian South Africans
, p. 143.
    24    “
They struck not
”: Ibid., pp. 142–43.
    25    
Here a reporter
: “The Great March: Mr. Gandhi at Work,”
Indian Opinion
, Nov. 19, 1913.
    26    
Gandhi, in the thick
: “What the British Press Says,”
Indian Opinion
, Nov. 19, 1913.
    27    
Later he wrote
: Gandhi,
Satyagraha in South Africa
, pp. 296, 299.
    28    “
General Smuts will have
”: Ibid., p. 300.
    29    “
He gave me strokes
”: Desai and Vahed,
Inside Indenture
, p. 372.
    30    “
Any government worth its salt
”:
Transvaal Leader
, Oct. 29, 1913.
    31    
The Natal Coal Owners Association
: Desai and Vahed,
Inside Indenture
, p. 369.
    32    
Taking their cues
:
The Star
, Nov. 10, 1913.
    33    
spread of the strike’s seeming flood tide
: Desai and Vahed,
Inside Indenture
, p. 393.
    34    
The first walkout
:
Transvaal Leader
, Nov. 5 and 8, 1913.
    35    
At the height of the unrest
: Report on Durban Police dated November 17 by Chief Magistrate Percy Binns, National Archives, Pretoria.
    36    
Rajmohan Gandhi suggests
: Rajmohan Gandhi,
Gandhi
, p. 167.
    37    “
The leaders of the movement
”: “Progress of the Strike: The Durban Conference,”
Indian Opinion
, Oct. 29, 1913.
    38    
Nevertheless, Vahed and Desai
: Desai and Vahed,
Inside Indenture
, p. 384.
    39    
The plantation to which the food:
In the apartheid era, a black township was laid out on lands that had belonged to the old Campbell estate. It was called KwaMashu. Few of its inhabitants were likely to know that “Mashu” was a Zulu rendering of “Marshall,” a tribute to the white planter who introduced Gandhi to Dube.
    40    
He’d told his supporters
:
CWMG
, vol. 12, p. 298.
    41    “
carnival of violence”:
The full text ofMarshall Campbell’s letter to Gandhi dated Dec. 30, 1913, can be found at the Killie Campbell Library in Durban in a file that also contains a letter from Colin Campbell to his brother William and a subsequent letter from William to his father. None of these letters shed any lighton the question of what the supposed ballistic examination showed about who fired the bullet that killed the indentured laborer Patchappen, if it was not the planter’s son.
    42    “
In all our struggles
”: Ibid., pp. 298–99.
    43    
By his own testimony
:
Transvaal Leader
, Nov. 28 and 29 and Dec. 19 and 23, 1913.
    44    
If he’d not been in jail
: Desai and Vahed,
Inside Indenture
, p. 394.
    45    
The Indians had refused
: On November 14, according to Desai and Vahed,
Inside Indenture
, p. 382.
    46    
A detachment of police
: Ibid., p. 383.
    47    
These themes are regularly
:
Transvaal Leader
, Nov. 19, 1913.
    48    “
The Indians were very excited”:
Indian Enquiry Commission Report, presented to Parliament April 1914, p. 8 (available at House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Online, accessible through ProQuest).
    49    “
overwhelmed in numbers
”:
Transvaal Leader
, Nov. 28, 1913.
    50    
The commission that looked
: Indian Enquiry Commission Report, p. 10.
    51    
A witness told Reuters
: Clipping on file in the National Archives, Pretoria.
    52    
An indentured laborer
:
Indian Opinion
, Dec. 12, 1913.
    53    
The British governor-general
: Lord Gladstone’s cable is on file at the National Archives, Pretoria. Contending that Botha and Smuts had reacted to the Indian strikes “with great forbearance,” the governor-general declared: “I deprecate official credence being given to outrageous charges telegraphed to India by those who were responsible for the strikes here.”
    54    
Most of his spare time
:
CWMG
, vol. 12, p. 270.
    55    
He said he’d miss the solitude
: Ibid., p. 272.
    56    
Gandhi used it to prepare
: Ibid., p. 276.
    57    “
How glorious
”: Ibid., p. 274.
    58