Charles Freer Andrews first came to India in 1904 and even in his lifetime he was being turned into a saint, a fate similar to that of this greatest friend, Gandhi. This book gets behind that obfuscation. Others have studied the story of his later development but this is the first closely researched account of the period between 1904 and 1914, which traces Andrews’ transformation into a significant player in modern Indian history. Arriving as a young missionary to teach at. St. Stephen’s College Delhi, at the high noon of the Empire, Andrews underwent a profound transformation. His Christianity was challenged and changed in the process, as he entered into deep relationships with Gandhi and Tagore and other Hindu and Muslim friends and committed himself to Indian freedom. In all this, we see the emergence of what Gandhi called ‘the pattern of the ideal missionary’, in an intercultural context between Raj and Swaraj.
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