What started as an experiment in 1904 for the rights of mine and sugarcane workers, as also the liberation of women, became an important tool that eventually helped India gain independence from the British.
The settlement of some 100 acres in the northern quarters of Durban was vandalized in 1985 by right-wing vigilantes at the peak of apartheid violence in South Africa. Sarvodaya, as the settlement is called, was rebuilt and re-inaugurated in 2000. The area around it is called Bhambayi, after Bombay.
