Daniel O’Connor and his wife arrived in India in 1963, virtually the last days of the Nehruvian era, to live and work at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. This was the beginning of a relationship that was to last almost a decade. Being part of a creative college community that mirrored all the effects of a newly realized post-colonial consciousness and the anxieties and hopes of a nation coming to grips with post-Nehruvian existence, the young couple witnessed ...
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 ...