| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary Setting | Hélène Cixous | Cixous had, by 2001, written five plays for Mnouchkine
's Théâtre du Soleil
, besides translating Greek tragedies for them in the early nineties. Running-Johnson, Cynthia. “Cixous’s Left and Right Hands of Writing in <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Tambours sur la digue</span> and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Osnabrück</span>”;. French Forum, Vol. 26 , No. 3, pp. 111-22. 111 |
| Literary responses | Pearl S. Buck | It is said that Jawaharlal Nehru
read this book aloud to Mahatma Gandhi
when the latter was ill in bed, and made him laugh out loud. Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster. xi |
| Textual Production | Vera Brittain | She had made good use of her opportunities for observation when, two years earlier, she travelled to the Gandhi
Memorial Conference or World Pacifist Meeting
. British Book News. British Council. (1952): 112 |
| politics | Annie Besant | AB
resigned as President of the Home Rule League
of India, and was succeeded by Gandhi
. Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 317 |
| politics | Annie Besant | Friends in England put pressure on the government and secured her release after 94 days. Her popularity among the Indian people was high; huge crowds turned out from Adyar to Madras to mark her release... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Annie Besant | Among its favourite topics were Gandhi
and pacifism. |
| Reception | Annie Besant | The play (which went on to tour Britain for six weeks) portrayed Besant as a charismatic though not infallible idealist. It was advertised with a photo showing her with Gandhi
. |
| Friends, Associates | Stella Benson | |
| politics | Stella Benson | When she did an interview with Gandhi
, the Governor of Bengal warned her not to present him in too sympathetic a light, since he was already seen as a potential problem by the British... |
| Textual Production | Eva Mary Bell | Giving her name on the title-page as John Travers (Mrs. G. H. Bell), EMB
published another Indian novel, A Servant When He Reigneth, dedicated to Sir Michael
and Lady O'Dwyer
, friends of... |
| Travel | Eva Mary Bell | When EMB
first travelled to India, presumably with her husband, it was to live in Ferozepore or Firozpur in the Punjab (now close to the border with Pakistan). She was in Ludhiana, Punjab, for... |
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