The book contains the correspondence of Mahatma Gandhi with three Danish women-Esther (Feering) Menon, Anne Marie Petersen and Ellen Horup-who admired him as a person and supported the movement he led for the independence of India. The close friendship of Mahatma Gandhi with these women is a significant episode in the relations between India and Denmark.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR E.S. Reddy
E.S. Reddy, former Assistant Secretary-General of the U.N. and director of its Centre against Apartheid, has devoted much of his time since retirement in 1985 to research and writing on Mahatma Gandhi. He is the author of Gandhiji: Vision of a Free South Africa (New Delhi, 1995); editor of Mahatma Gandhi: Letters to Americans (New York and Mumbai, 1998); and co-editor of Gandhi and South Africa 1914-1918 (Ahmedabad, 1993), Passive Resistance-1946 (Durban, 1996), The Mahatma and the Poetess (Mumbai, 1998), and Message of the Mahatma through the Prism of Nellore (Chennai, 2005).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Holger Terp
Holger Terp, librarian, co-founder, editor and webmaster of The Danish Peace Academy, Copenhagen. He has been a conscientious objector and active in Danish peace groups since 1980; founder of the Danish website "Peace Commission of 1998; corresponding member of the Gandhi Information Center (Berlin) since 2003; Board member of the Danish Peace Council since 2005; author of peace bibliographies as e.g. "Peace in Print", writings about the History of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom between 1915 and 1924 and the Danish Peace History.
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