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Mahatma Gandhi
Standard Name: Gandhi, Mahatma
Used Form: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Alice Walker | 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... |
| politics | Eleanor Rathbone | 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... |
| politics | Eleanor Rathbone | 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... |
| politics | Bessie Head | 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... |
| politics | Ethel Savi | 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... |
| 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... |
| politics | Olive Schreiner | 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... |
| politics | Annie Besant | |
| 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... |
| Occupation | Maude Royden | 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... |
| Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | 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
,... |
| Occupation | Helen Waddell | |
| 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 |
| 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. Dossey, Barbara Montgomery. Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer. Springhouse Corporation. 414-15 |
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