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| 1894 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Natal Indian Congress Party |  |
| Founds the Natal Indian Congress Party, molds the Indian community of SouthAfrica into a homogeneous political force |
| At the onset of the SouthAfrican War, Gandhi argues that Indians must support the war effort in order to legitimize their claims to full citizenship, organizing a volunteer ambulance corps of 300 free Indians and 800 indentured labourers |
| Johannesburg While the Government is successful in repressing the Indian protesters, the public outcry stemming from the harsh methods employed by the SouthAfrican Government in the face of peaceful Indian protesters finally forced SouthAfrican General Jan Chr |
| 11th Sep Johannesburg Calls on his fellow Indians to defy the new law and suffer the punishments for doing so, rather than resist through violent means |
| 11th Sep Johannesburg Start of a seven-year struggle in which thousands of Indians were jailed (including Gandhi), flogged, or even shot, for striking, refusing to register, burning their registration cards, or engaging in other forms of non-violent resistance |
| 11th Sep Johannesburg The Transvaal Government promulgates a new Act compelling registration of the colony's Indian population, at a mass protest meeting Gandhi adopts his evolving methodology of satyagraha (devotion to the truth), or non-violent protest |
| 1906 | Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand SatyagrahaIndia | |
| Johannesburg While the Government is successful in repressing the Indian protesters, the public outcry stemming from the harsh methods employed by the SouthAfrican Government in the face of peaceful Indian protesters finally forced SouthAfrican General Jan Chr |
| 11th Sep Johannesburg Calls on his fellow Indians to defy the new law and suffer the punishments for doing so, rather than resist through violent means |
| 11th Sep Johannesburg Start of a seven-year struggle in which thousands of Indians were jailed (including Gandhi), flogged, or even shot, for striking, refusing to register, burning their registration cards, or engaging in other forms of non-violent resistance |
| 11th Sep Johannesburg The Transvaal Government promulgates a new Act compelling registration of the colony's Indian population, at a mass protest meeting Gandhi adopts his evolving methodology of satyagraha (devotion to the truth), or non-violent protest |
| 1920 | Shastri, Lal Bahadur Natal Indian Congress Party | |
| Appointed Member of the Indian National Congress |
