Mahatma Gandhi

She continued with self-education after she left school, through the M. L. Sultan Library , a local institution donated to the community by a wealthy merchant of Indian origin, which filled a gap for coloured...

BH found that Cape Coloured people were far more politically aware than those in Durban, conscious of and increasingly resistant to being subject as a group to discriminatory laws. They also had an internal class...

Among those drafted to form the Mandate's Honorary Council in Britain were prominent politicians, clergy, feminists, and writers such as Margaret Ashton , Margaret Bondfield , Vera Brittain , Arthur Henderson , Laurence Housman ,...

Despite this unfavourable mainstream review, the work exerted a lasting influence in vegetarian and alternative religious circles: After first reading Henry Salt 's Plea for Vegetarianism, Mahatma Gandhi went on to rank AK 's...

EL 's account of India is the shortest, but the most transparent in the imperial slant to its attitudes. As she toured New Delhi, she pondered ignorantly [her word] on the whole situation, concluding...

Reynolds was a friend of Mahatma Gandhi , and had been entrusted with Gandhi's historic letter to the British viceroy during the Civil Disobedience Campaign.EM herself met, through the Independent Labour Party

This book also significantly revises EM 's earlier opinion on the Spanish Civil War, saying that had Republican Spain shown no resistance, this horror would have been spared. She argues passionately for a Gandhi

This time the story begins with Kitchener 's re-taking of Khartoum, and ends with the death in 1965 of Winston Churchill , presented as the last imperialist. In it JM appeals to her own...

SN first met Mahatma Gandhi in London when he came to organise an ambulance unit soon after the outbreak of the First World War.

Mahatma Gandhi and several of his followers, including SN , were arrested and imprisoned the day after he gave his Quit India speech before thousands of people in Bombay.

From about 1912, when she threw herself into politics almost full-time, SN spent most of her time away from her family. Her political position took her as a delegate on a number of national and...

EN 's aristocratic lineage brought her into contact with many notable government and royal figures. As a young girl, she often visited the fifteenth-century Château de Breteuil, not far from Paris, home of her...

On 9 September 1915Gandhi celebrated FN 's work in Indian Opinion. He reported that it is said she did an amount of work which big and strong men were unable to do.

SP published in Bombay the over-600-page work India and the Earthly Paradise, aligning herself with Ghandi 's call for rural communalism.

Not surprisingly, Rathbone's progressive ideals about women and feminist activism were weighed down by the cultural contexts (British and international) in which she was immersed. She had an imperfect understanding of the ways in which...