Tyranny of colour

THIS book was originally published in 1937 in the Gujarati language under the title of "RANGDWESH-NO DURGA." Its reception by the Press was enthusiastic and unique. The unanimous opinion was that the book was the first of its kind published in the Gujarati literature. Some reviewers stressed the importance of such a work being translated into English to educate public opinion on the Indian problem in South Africa. A number of friends in South Africa endorsed the view. "THE TYRANNY OF COLOUR" is undoubtedly a response to their well-meant desire.

The book is carefully revised, re-written to a certain extent, and brought up-to-date by the addition of three new chapters. Instead of two in the original, this book appears in a single volume only. The first volume is condensed and takes the place of the introductory section of this work.

"THE TYRANNY OF COLOUR" lays no claim to an exhaustive study of the South African Indian problem, but it does have the humble privi lege of presenting the requisite background for a minute study of the problem by an abler author. The following pages attempt to describe the historical events of a century, and dispassionately comment on more than sixty discriminatory

enactments against the Asiatics in South Africa since 1860.

"THE TYRANNY OF COLOUR" may claim to be the first big effort to study the most complicated Asiatic problem and to present the Indian case from the national, imperial and international standpoints.