British Book News. British Council.
(1952): 112
Mahatma Gandhi
Standard Name: Gandhi, Mahatma
Used Form: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Kamila Shamsie | 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... |
| Textual Production | Vera Brittain | She had made good use of her opportunities for observation when, two years earlier, she travelled to the Gandhi
Memorial Conference or World Pacifist Meeting
. |
| Textual Production | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
published in Bombay the over-600-page work India and the Earthly Paradise, aligning herself with Ghandi
's call for rural communalism. Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press, 1996. 187 Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967. 178 |
| Textual Production | Eva Mary Bell | Giving her name on the title-page as John Travers (Mrs. G. H. Bell), EMB
published another Indian novel, A Servant When He Reigneth, dedicated to Sir Michael
and Lady O'Dwyer
, friends of... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | This book concentrates on those of the princely states which RF
had visited (the majority) and their often highly characterful as well as flamboyantly wealthy rulers. Relying mostly on her own experience, with some digressions... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edith Lyttelton | EL
's account of India is the shortest, but the most transparent in the imperial slant to its attitudes. As she toured New Delhi, she pondered ignorantly [her word] on the whole situation, concluding... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ethel Mannin | This book also significantly revises EM
's earlier opinion on the Spanish Civil War, saying that had Republican Spain shown no resistance, this horror would have been spared. qtd. in Stee, Loretta. “Gandhian Non-Violence in Works of Ethel Mannin and Virginia Woolf”. Literature of Region and Nation: Proceedings of the 6th International Literature of Region and Nation Conference, University of New Brunswick in Saint John, edited by Winnifred M. Bogaards, University of New Brunswick in Saint John, 1998, pp. 163-80. 169 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jan Morris | This time the story begins with Kitchener
's re-taking of Khartoum, and ends with the death in 1965 of Winston Churchill
, presented as the last imperialist. In it JM
appeals to her own... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Annie Besant | Among its favourite topics were Gandhi
and pacifism. |
| Travel | Eva Mary Bell | When EMB
first travelled to India, presumably with her husband, it was to live in Ferozepore or Firozpur in the Punjab (now close to the border with Pakistan). She was in Ludhiana, Punjab, for... |
| Travel | Sarojini Naidu | From about 1912, when she threw herself into politics almost full-time, SN
spent most of her time away from her family. Her political position took her as a delegate on a number of national and... |
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