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In a strange land
pp. 23-38
Abstract
South Africa at the end of the nineteenth century was a settler state with the foci of power divided between Boers and British. The first settlers arrived at the Cape in 1652, Hollanders by lineage and farmers by occupation. A large number were members of the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk and believed firmly that they had a covenant with the Lord, extending this to their relation to the land. After the English arrived more than a century later, in 1795, with all the advantages of cultural and technological superiority, the scene was set for a "racial conflict" which, well into the twentieth century, connoted specifically the relation between the two main groups of white settlers.
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Chatterjee Margaret (1992) Gandhi and his Jewish friends. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Pages: 23-38
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12740-5_2
Full citation:
Chatterjee Margaret (1992) In a strange land, In: Gandhi and his Jewish friends, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 23–38.