Parsee Rustomjee was born in India in 1861 to an Orthodox Parsi Zoroastrian family.
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14 Facts About Parsee Rustomjee
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Parsee Rustomjee soon became close associates soon after Gandhi's arrival in 1893.
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Parsee Rustomjee crossed into the Transvaal by rail to protest the racialist Immigration Restriction acts including the Transvaal Asiatic Registration Act.
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Parsee Rustomjee described himself in the Court at Volksrust as a general merchant in Natal, where he was a considerable property owner with large business interests throughout South Africa.
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Parsee Rustomjee considered himself to have vested rights as a pre-war resident of the Transvaal.
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Parsee Rustomjee said he initially arrived in the Transvaal in 1893 and owned three properties there which had been expropriated by the Johannesburg municipality in 1904.
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Parsee Rustomjee walked about with an eye-shade, his sight being affected, he complained of side ache and constitutional disease.
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Parsee Rustomjee visited Durban in February 1910 to recuperate from his illness.
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Parsee Rustomjee was greeted by some five hundred people at Durban station and more as he returned home.
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Parsee Rustomjee suffered great persecution during his imprisonment at the Pietermaritzburg jail.
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Parsee Rustomjee was deprived of his Zoroastrian girdle and undershirt.
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Parsee Rustomjee went on a hunger strike until these were restored back to his possession.
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Parsee Rustomjee was eventually given back his girdle and undershirt after protests in both India and South Africa.
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Parsee Rustomjee was moved to Durban prison where he was assaulted twice by 'native' warders.
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