1. There were six definitions or groups of Indians in Natal, “Indentured Indian” - One who had been introduced, under the provisions of the various Acts dealing with Indian Immigration, by the Immigration Trust Board, “Re-indentured Indian” - One whose time had expired since the operation of Law 17, 1895 and had thereof elected to re-indenture himself under the provisions of that Act, “Free Indian”- this being one who had completed his indenture prior to the coming into operation of Law 17, 1895, and who was therefore not liable to the payment of £3 license, and had forfeited his right to a return passage, but may have regained same by indenturing under Law 42, 1905. “Time Expired Indian” - One whose indenture had expired subsequent to the operation of Law 17, 1895, “Colonial Born Indian” - The child born in Natal, of the “Free Indian,” or of a “Time Expired Indian” who elected to pay £3 license and remain in the Colony without re-indenture under Law 17, 1895, or, of an Indian who arrived in the Colony at his own expense, as an ordinary Colonist, and independently of the Indian Immigration Trust Board. The latter description is that of a “Free Immigrant”. See Y.S. Meer, Documents of Indentured Labourers, 1852-1917. (Durban: Institute of Black Research, 1980), 636
2. Census Report of the Colony of Natal, 17 April 1904 (Pietermaritzburg: P. Davis and Sons, 1905).
3. Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: the World That Slaves Made (New York: Vintage Press, 1976), 361.
4. Nigel Penn, Rogues, Rebels and Runaways: Eighteenth Century Cape Characters (Cape Town: David Philip, 1999), 1.
5. For more on this see David William Cohen, Burying SM: the Politics of Knowledge and the Sociology of Power in Africa (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1992), and David William Cohen, The Combing of History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), and Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992) and Carlo Ginzburg,“Witches and Shamans”, New Left Review, July/August 1993, 200, 75–85.