Old Diaspora were deeply involved in Indian Nationalism, says historian Ajay Mahurkar

While Brindavan’s campaign found an echo in the religiously oriented nationalism of the first decade of the twentieth century and perhaps provided the symbolic impetus for abolition of indentured labour system, Manilall Doctor’s campaign perhaps helped to broadbase the mass economic nationalism of the subsequent decades of the twentieth century, says historian Ajay Mahurkar Historian Ajay Mahurkar, while delivering a talk on &ldquo