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MAHATMA GANDHI (1869-1948)
Samuel Hilton BARBER. Transvaal Gold Law, Cape Town: T. Maskew Miller, [1904], 8°, front free endpaper SIGNED AND DATED 17/11/04 BY GANDHI AND WITH HIS ATTORNEY BUSINESS STAMP, original cloth gilt (lightly scuffed).

Lot Essay

Chapter IV, paragraph 133 states: "No coloured person may be a licence holder, or in any way connected with the working of the diggings, but shall be allowed only as a workman in the service of whites." In the present copy from Gandhi's attorney's office, a number of such discriminatory laws are highlighted in pencil. Gandhi, having studied Law in London, led the Indian community in South Africa against racial discrimination and, in 1894, had set up the first non-white South African political association. He went on to become India's greatest statesman.

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