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Excerpt from Labour and Other Questions in South Africa: Being Mainly Considerations on the Rational and Profitable Treatment of the Coloured Races Living There The tour in South Africa, of which some account is given in the following notes, was undertaken for purely commercial reasons by a gentleman who has large business interests in India. The author, having lived in India for many years, is naturally interested in the welfare of the people of that country, for whom he has much sympathy. He was greatly astonished at the extent to which the Indians have contributed to the prosperity and well-being of South Africa. Nothing that he had seen or heard had given him any idea that such was the case, and many, if not most, Englishmen are no doubt as ill-informed as he was on the subject. He was not less surprised to notice the treatment meted out to Indians and other coloured races in the South African colonies - a treatment which, in his opinion, is as impolitic as it is unjust. This aspect of South African policy being very little noticed in the home press, and its bearing on the future of the colonies being consequently insufficiently appreciated, it occurred to the author that the publication of his notes might be useful in bringing to light the disabilities under which coloured races generally - the educated Hindu in common with the Kaffir - suffer in the South African dominions of His Majesty. The importance of the question has lately, moreover, been greatly increased by the proposal to introduce Asiatic labour on a large scale into the Transvaal. These considerations are the author's excuse for publishing this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing im