Zulu resistance to white farm labor drove British importation of Indian indentured workers.

Evidence

In 1906, the Zulu chief Bambatha kaMancinza led his people in an uprising against the British government’s newly imposed one-pound poll tax. The Zulus and the British were old enemies and had fought each other before. In 1879, the Zulus had routed the British Army when it attacked the Zulu kingdom, a victory that put the Zulu on the world map. Eventually, over the years, because they could not match the firepower of British troops, they were conquered and driven off their land. Still, they refused to work on the White man’s farms; which is why bonded, indentured labour was shipped in from India. Time and again, the Zulus had risen up. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 199

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Zulu refusal to work on White farms drove the import of Indian indentured labour (similarity 0.94)
• Indian indentured labour was deliberately used as a counterpoise against Black resistance (similarity 0.82)
• Britain imported then forcibly repatriated Asian laborers in South Africa. (similarity 0.81)
• Indian indentured labor reproduced subcontinental caste hierarchy, muting collective resistance (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Indian indentured labour was deliberately used as a counterpoise against Black resistance #corroborates (0.85) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1146
• Africans’ mass labor withdrawal triggered the planters’ importation of immigrant labor #corroborates (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1139
• Xhosa and Zulu resistance in southern Africa defined the nineteenth-century anti-colonial struggle #expands (0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 823