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UNINA9910784907103321 |
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Autore |
Carnall Geoffrey |
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Titolo |
Gandhi's interpreter : a life of Horace Alexander / / by Geoffrey Carnall ; foreword by Philippa Gregory [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010 |
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0-7486-5194-2 |
1-282-74976-5 |
9786612749766 |
0-7486-4185-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxi, 314 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Quakers - Great Britain |
Pacifists - Great Britain |
Great Britain Foreign relations 20th century |
Great Britain Foreign relations India |
India Foreign relations Great Britain |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The making of an internationalist. Early years ; Cambridge before 1914 ; The First World War -- The humanising of an intellectual. Olive Graham ; Getting married -- The discovery of Gandhi. International studies ; Opium -- Quaker interventions. Tagore at Yearly Meeting, and some consquences ; The Round Table Conference and the India Conciliation Group -- The 1930's. Fritz Berber and the Nazi revolution ; R.A. Butler and India -- The Second World War. War comes again ; Two years of frustration -- To India with the Friends' Ambulance Unit -- Campaigning in Britain and the USA. Six months in Britain ; USA 1945 -- Indian independence and its aftermath. India again ; Partition ; After Gandhi ; Last years in India -- India and the quest for a sustainable world order. After India ; Contentious issues ; Action for peace ; Working for the peaceable kingdom -- Appendix. Fritz Berber in the Second World War. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Horace Alexander was an English Quaker who played a significant part in relations between Indian nationalist leaders and the British |
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