Mahatma Gandhi

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...

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 ,...

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 .

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...