“Papers of Charlotte Despard”. AIM25: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
Mahatma Gandhi
Standard Name: Gandhi, Mahatma
Used Form: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Connections
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Cultural formation | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Katharine Conway, later KBG
, was born to an English, white, minister's family, who considering their middle-class status were relatively poor. She was the product of her parents' views on equality of educational opportunities for... |
Education | Bessie Head | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Despard | |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Her involvement in socialist circles led her to acquaintance with Sidney
and Beatrice Webb
, Edward Hulton
(editor of the Sunday Chronicle), and Robert Blatchford
, for whom she wrote several articles. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited, 1971. 71 |
Friends, Associates | Ethel Mannin | 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. Huxter, Robert. Reg and Ethel. Sessions Book Trust, 1992. 56 Croft, Andy. “Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 205-25. 217 |
Friends, Associates | Stella Benson | |
Friends, Associates | Sarojini Naidu | SN
first met Mahatma Gandhi
in London when he came to organise an ambulance unit soon after the outbreak of the First World War. Dustoor, Phiroze Edulji. Sarojini Naidu. Rao and Raghavan, 1961. 3 Sengupta, Padmini. Sarojini Naidu: A Biography. Asia Publishing House, 1966. 86-8 |
Friends, Associates | Maude Royden | In IndiaMR
was granted a private interview with Mahatma Gandhi
: they talked about British colonialism. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989. 251 |
Friends, Associates | Elma Napier | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Rathbone | 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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Kingsford | 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... |
Literary responses | Florence Nightingale | 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. qtd. in Dossey, Barbara Montgomery. Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer. Springhouse Corporation, 2000. 414-15 |
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, 2010. xi |
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. “Cixouss Left and Right Hands of Writing in Tambours sur la digue and OsnabrückFrench Forum, Vol. 26 , No. 3, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2001, pp. 111-22. 111 |
Occupation | Helen Waddell |
Timeline
2 October 1869: Indian spiritual and Nationalist leader Mahatma...
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2 October 1869
Indian spiritual and Nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi was born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
in Porbandar, India.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
30 June 1914: Jan Smuts and Mohandas Gandhi agreed by letter...
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30 June 1914
Jan Smuts
and Mohandas Gandhi
agreed by letter that South African law regarding Asiatics would be justly enforced.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 715
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
892
30 March 1919: Mohandas Gandhi proclaimed a hartal (work...
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30 March 1919
Mohandas Gandhi
proclaimed a hartal (work stoppage) as part of satyagraha (passive resistance) against the Rowlatt Acts, which gave the Indian Government sweeping Emergency Powers, aimed especially against sedition.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 838-9
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
1101
September 1920: The civil disobedience campaign against British...
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September 1920
The civil disobedience campaign against British rule in India began; it involved an immense non-cooperation movement, including a boycott of foreign cloth and British imports.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 839-40
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
1102
10 March 1922: Gandhi was arrested and charged with sedition...
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10 March 1922
Gandhi
was arrested and charged with sedition in Amhedabad, India, shortly after calling off his campaigns of civil disobedience and boycotts.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 840-1
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
1102
Thomson, David, and Geoffrey Warner. England in the Twentieth Century, 1914-1979. 2nd ed., Penguin Books, 1981.
75-6
12 March 1930: Gandhi began his campaign of civil disobedience...
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12 March 1930
Gandhi
began his campaign of civil disobedience (peaceful resistance to British rule in India) with the 240-mile Salt March, heading for the sea coast of Gujarat.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Atlas of the British Empire. Facts on File, 1989.
196
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 847
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
1103
Meek, James. “If they’re ill, charge them extra”. London Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2002, pp. 3-5.
3
15 February 1942: Singapore, held by Britain, fell to Japanese...
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15 February 1942
Singapore, held by Britain, fell to Japanese forces.
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
259
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
78, 81
Ali, Tariq. “Bitter Chill of Winter”. London Review of Books, 19 Apr. 2001, pp. 18-27.
21
1 April 1947: Mahatma Gandhi suggested, remarkably for...
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1 April 1947
Mahatma Gandhi
suggested, remarkably for a devout Hindu
, that the first Prime Minister of an independent (and united) India should be the MuslimMuhammad Ali Jinnah
(who after Partition became first premier of Pakistan).
Vedantam, Shankar. “Lost recording of Gandhi uncovered”. Guardian Weekly, 15 Aug. 2008, p. 30.
30
30 January 1948: Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated in Delhi...
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30 January 1948
Mohandas Gandhi
was assassinated in Delhi by a Hindu who claimed to be acting in retribution for Gandhi's part in the partition of India.
“Obituary: Mr. Gandhi, Apostle of Independence”. Times, 31 Jan. 1948, p. 6.
6
1953: The United Nations General Assembly appointed...
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1953
The United Nations General Assembly
appointed its first female president, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
of India.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
31 October 1984: Indira Gandhi, who had been Prime Minister...
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31 October 1984
Indira Gandhi
, who had been Prime Minister of India with only one short break since 1967, was assassinated, shot down in her garden by two of her body-guards who were Sikhs, in retaliation for...
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