Imperial powers reconciled with white settlers while excluding Indians from the settlement

Evidence

This was not to be. The Boers managed to outmanoeuvre and out-brotherhood Gandhi. In 1902, they signed the Treaty of Vereeniging with the British. According to the treaty, the Boer republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State became colonies of the British Empire under the sovereignty of the British Crown. In return, the British government agreed to give the colonies self-rule. The Boers became the British government’s brutal lieutenants. Jan Smuts, once a dreaded Boer ‘terrorist’, switched sides and eventually led the British Army of South Africa in the First World War. The White folks made peace. They divided the diamonds, the gold and the land between themselves. Blacks, Indians and ‘coloureds’ were left out of the equation. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 197

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to A Midwife’s Tale-era insight about whites solidifying racial hierarchy, and to the broader pattern in The Reluctant Fundamentalist of the colonized being excluded from white settlements.
• QUESTION: This white reconciliation at the expense of Indians is a core trigger for Gandhi’s South Africa awakening — worth checking how it fed caste critique.