Mahatma Gandhi

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...

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...

CD met Gandhi in London in 1914, and was also a good friend of Irish patriot Constance Markiewicz .

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. With...

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

In India SB met with Gandhi and developed a friendship with Cornelia Sorabji .

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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.

Cixous had, by 2001, written five plays for Mnouchkine 's Théâtre du Soleil , besides translating Greek tragedies for them in the early nineties. She has said that she values her theatrical writing for...

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)...