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Article: India's Relations with South Africa During the Post-Apartheid Era.
- Article from:
- Journal of Asian and African Studies
- Article date:
- August 1, 1999
- Author:
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Introduction
Even before gaining its independence from Great Britain in 1947, India made the elimination of racism in South Africa a principal foreign policy objective. When the United Nations General Assembly met for the first time in October 1946, India, a self-governing territory within the British Empire, introduced the issue of the unjust treatment of Indians in South Africa, thereby putting the White minority government's racial practices on the international agenda. The quest for racial equality in South Africa and India's struggle against British colonial domination were linked by Mahatma Gandhi's activities in both countries. For more than twenty years, ...