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Mahatma Gandhi – His Life & TimesIn hot blushes on their cheek.Rise like lions after slumberIn unvanquishable number-Shake your chains to earth like dewWhich in sleep has fallen on you—Ye are many, they are few.Those were the followers, the Indian civil resisters in South Africa.In 1949, the Indian population of South Africa was a quarter of" a million, ofwhom two hundred thousand lived in the Province of Natal. Though they hadmultiplied and prospered, they still did not have the franchise or guaranteedcivil rights. They Were subject to white and Zulu violence. Their condition wasprecarious. Manilal Gandhi's Indian Opinion of February > noted that in 1914passive resistance was 'only suspended' and 'may have to be reintroduced'.Every generation re-enacts the battle for its rights—or it loses them. But whileindividuals in several continents have practised passive resistance, nobodyexcept Mohandas K. Gandhi has ever led a successful, non-violent, mass, civildisobedience campaign. He possessed the personal qualities which aroused thenecessary qualities in the community.www.mkgandhi.org Page 137