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Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Octavo. 174pp.Illustrated. Glossy pictorial wrappers reproducing a photograph of Dr. Goonam on front cover. A fine copy. Rear cover has publisher's ISBN label affixed in lower corner as issued. Dr. K Goonam (Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo) [1906-1999], suffragette and political activist, was one of the first South African Indian women to become a medical doctor. She participated in the Passive Resistance movement (1946-1948), and was a member of the Natal Indian Congress (elected vice-president). Following imprisonment for her political activities, she left South Africa for exile in England, returning to South Africa in 1990; she voted in the first democratic elections in South Africa, in 1994.An autobiography of a first generation South African of Indian descent, who was born in Durban, South Africa (in 1906), became a political activist, advocating for suffrage, and studied medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland. She returned to Durban, South Africa in 1936, where she practiced medicine; she also led, with other Doctors, the 1946 Indian Passive Resistance Campaign against the anti-Indian Land Act, for which she was imprisoned. Very uncommon.