Gandhi's interpreter : a life of Horace Alexander / / by Geoffrey Carnall ; foreword by Philippa Gregory [[electronic resource]]
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxi, 314 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 327.172092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Quakers - Great Britain |
| Pacifists - Great Britain | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Foreign relations 20th century |
| Great Britain Foreign relations India | |
| India Foreign relations Great Britain | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | GregoryPhilippa |
| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Horace Alexander was an English Quaker who played a significant part in relations between Indian nationalist leaders and the British Government in the years before the transfer of power in 1947. He came to know Gandhi well and was trusted by him as an intermediary. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Gandhi's interpreter |
| ISBN: | 0-7486-5194-2 |
| 1-282-74976-5 | |
| 9786612749766 | |
| 0-7486-4185-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910459060003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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