Indians in the Colonies

��BECIPROOITY BETWEEN INDIA AND THE DOMINIONS

At the Madras Provincial Conference held at Nellore -in June, 1915, Mr. G. A. Natesan moved a resolution thanking Mr. and Mrs Gandhi for the invaluable services they had rendered to the Motherland by their heroic struggle in South Africa. Mr. Gandhi, in acknowledging the thanks of the Gonference t spoke as follows :

In BO far a<* sentiment erib^ra in bo tha claims of In- dia, with regard bo the a&abua of Indians in tine Empire, ib aeema possible bhab by a measure of, reciprocal treats- man b as between India and feh^ Dominiona thifj difficulty joould be aurmoanfeed. Given an oubleb for Indian emigranba in E*ab Africa, it ought nob to be beyond the powers of abateaman.ahip to arrange thab India should have the power to exclude white men of the working class, juab aa the Domiaiona exclude ludiaoa, ,Or rabher ib might; be arranged thab bha numbar of la iiaaB to be admitted to any one of the white Skates of the Empire should bear a relative proportion to the white population of the Ssate. As a matter of faob, if the proportion agreed on ia to avoid the neoeaaiby for removing some of 'the Aaiabioa now in the Dominion?, ib will have to be something lika twioe aa great aa the number of the whites in India in relation to the total population. The existing white oommuni&y in India, inclusive of troops^

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