South Africa’s Indian population numbers approximately one million, making it the biggest Indian population outside India. Although the first Indian to arrive in South Africa, Kalaga Prabhu, was exiled to the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch for trying to assassinate the king of Mysore in 1771, the vast majority of the country’s Indians now live in KwaZulu-Natal. Their forebears were brought over by the British in the period from 1860 onwards as indentured labour to work the sugar cane. Nowadays Indians form the core of the commerce in much of the province. Mahatma Ghandi spent 20 years in South Africa and it was here that he formed his policy of non-violent protest, after being thrown out of the first-class section of a train.