Mother of Mayavati: The Story of Charlotte Sevier and Advaita Ashrama

In E. M. Forster s Passage to India, and again in Paul Scott s Jewel in the Crown, we encounter a certain kind of remarkable British woman who seems utterly immune to the ignorance and prejudice of the British colonial mindset and who embraces India with all of her being. She falls in love with its people,its travails, its beauty, and above all else the profundity of its spiritual tradition. Charlotte Sevier was such a woman.