Depends upon what part of India they came from, since it means drastic differences in culture, skin color, economic status, etc. and I also think it depends if Uganda allows them to sell their property or to take any possessions or money with them.
WI: Rhodesia joins the Union of South Africa in 1922?
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Depends upon what part of India they came from, since it means drastic differences in culture, skin color, economic status, etc. and I also think it depends if Uganda allows them to sell their property or to take any possessions or money with them.
They'll be classed as 'Indian', not white. They'll have more rights than black South Africans, but certainly won't be given the same rights as whites.
In OTL South Africa already has a fairly large South Asian community.
I lived in Rhodesia for a while in the early 70s, and there was still a certain disdain for Afrikaaners- not blatant, but jokes about 'rock spiders' and 'hairybacks' being unsophisticated hicks. I worked on Rhodesia Railways, and several local whites expressed concern that I didn't get a better job; the white people working there were looked down as mostly yawpies.
Also a desire to explain ( to foreigners at least) that while they may be racialists, they weren't racists like the Boers. They emphasised Cecil Rhodes' "equal rights for all civilised men".
Also a desire to explain ( to foreigners at least) that while they may be racialists, they weren't racists like the Boers. They emphasised Cecil Rhodes' "equal rights for all civilised men".
Interesting! I have also noted that emphasis on racialism, in various books / media from the era. You can easily find some of the foreign (BBC?) documentaries from Rhodesia on YouTube, if you are interested.
Anyway, my understanding of the Afrikaner minority in Rhodesia was that they were almost entirely rural, that being the reason for immigration (farms!). So not reflecting the changes in Afrikaner society south of the border (urbanisation).