Mahatma Gandhi

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 ,...

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)...

AB resigned as President of the Home Rule League of India, and was succeeded by Gandhi .

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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...