Mahatma Gandhi

Their main topic of discussion was Indian nationalists' endorsement of Gandhi 's non-violent opposition to the war. In her correspondence Rathbone reveals an instinctive readiness to defend British cultural superiority, along with assuming the necessity...

Her review concedes that elements of Mayo's argument and approach were flawed, but insists that the book drew valuable attention to India's social problems, especially child marriage. Using quotations and statistics from the League of Nations

In June 1921, they moved the Fellowship Services to the Guildhouse, Eccleston Square, where MR continued to preach until she resigned in December 1936. She resigned because, she said, I have to choose; and...

In IndiaMR was granted a private interview with Mahatma Gandhi : they talked about British colonialism. She met him again later in London.

ES noticed many changes in Indian life and society. When confronted with a washerman who overcharged, she comments on a new outlook in India, where a labourer had always been worthy of his hire, and...

OS did not support the use of violence. As a pacifist, she disapproved of Emmeline Pankhurst 's militant feminism. (She was a personal friend, however, of Sylvia Pankhurst .) She supported Gandhi 's satyagraha movement...

Vivian's later career takes her to Peshawar, where political tensions are running high, and where Qayuum Gul's young brother, Najeeb, has confronted a racial barrier to learning archaeology rather as she had confronted a...

The title refers to the custom of marking thresholds with the imprint of a bloody hand, to invoke the goddess Kali as a protection against lesser malicious spirits. The novel opens with a strong scene...

Meanwhile, because members of Constable 's were serving in the armed forces, HW went back to work in publishing. She became assistant editor of the Conservative monthly the Nineteenth Century and After (published by Constable)...

She also notes that Jacques wrote in an effort to clear his mind and heart, to understand if he could the causes of his country's capitulation. The writing may be politically muddled (the...

It is hard to separate the topic of AW 's travel from that of her activism, since most her travelling is undertaken to further specific causes. In 2003 she was arrested for protesting against the...