Christianity

C. F. Andrews

About: 

C. F. Andrews was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1897. In 1904, Andrews went to Delhi as a missionary to take up a post at St Stephen's College where he soon became Principal. He supported the appointment of S. K. Rudra as Principal of St Stephen's College in 1907, the first Indian Principal. In 1912, Andrews returned to England and met Rabindranath Tagore at William Rothenstein's house in London. This began a friendship that led Andrews to base himself in Santiniketan from 1914, having renounced his priesthood in the same year. Andrews was involved in the editing of various Tagore publications and acted as his representative to the publisher Macmillan. Before this, in 1914, Andrews went to South Africa and met Mohandas Gandhi. They too became close friends.

Andrews became involved with the Indian National Congress and travelled the world to investigate the conditions of Indians in places such as Fiji, Kenya and Guiana. In 1931, he accompanied Gandhi to the Second Round Table Conference in London. He wrote a number of books on India, Gandhi and Christ. Andrews returned to the Anglican Church in 1936. The royalties from his autobiography, What I Owe to Christ (1932), were donated to Tagore's ashram in Santiniketan.

Published works: 

Christ and Labour (London: Student Christian Movement, 1924)

The Opium Evil in India (London: Student Christian Movement, 1926)

Letters to a Friend: Rabindranath Tagore's Letters to C. F. Andrews (1928)

Mahatma Gandhi at Work (New York: Macmillan, 1931)

Christ in Silence (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1933)

What I Owe to Christ (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1932)

 

Christ and Prayer

 

(London: Student Christian Movement, 1937)

Sadhu Sundar Singh (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937)

The Rise and Growth of Congress in India (1938)

The True India: A Plea for Understanding (London: Allen & Unwin, 1939)

The Good Shepherd (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1940)

The Sermon on the Mount (London: Allen & Unwin, 1942)

Mahatma Gandhi's Ideas (1949)

Date of birth: 
12 Feb 1871
Contributions to periodicals: 

The Listener

Modern Review

New Statesman

Secondary works: 

Chaturvedi, B. and Sykes, M., Charles Freer Andrews (London: Allen & Unwin, 1949)

Gandhi, Leela, Affective Communities. Anticolonial Thought and the Politics of Friendship (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2006)

Gracie, David M. (ed.), Gandhi and Charlie: The Story of a Friendship (Cambridge, Mass.: Cowley, 1989)

O'Connor, Daniel, A Clear Star: C. F. Andrews and India 1904-1914 (New Delhi: Chronicle Books, 2005)

Tinker, Hugh, ‘Andrews, Charles Freer (1871-1940)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/38830]

Tinker, Hugh, The Ordeal of Love: C. F. Andrews and India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1979)

Visvanathan, Susan, 'S. K. Rudra, C. F. Andrews, and M. K. Gandhi: Friendship, Dialogue and Interiority in the Question of Indian Nationalism', Economic and Political Weekly, 24 August 2002, pp. 3532-41

Archive source: 

Correspondence and papers, Mss Eur D113, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras

Correspondence with E. J. Thompson, Bodleian Library, Oxford

Correspondence with Gandhi and Tagore, McGregor-Ross Collection, Rhodes House, Oxford

Tagore Archives, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan

Bishop's College, Kolkata

Correspondence, National Archives of India, New Delhi

Gandhi Smarek Sanghrahlaya Samiti, Rajghat, Delhi

Deenbandhu Memorial Papers, St Stephen's College Library, Delhi

City of birth: 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Country of birth: 
England
Other names: 

Charles Freer Andrews

Charlie Andrews

Date of death: 
05 Apr 1940
Location of death: 
Calcutta, India
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Jaipal Singh

About: 

Jaipal Singh was the son of a Bihari adivasi (tribal) farmer. He studied at St Paul's School in Ranchi (Bihar) and was taken under the wing of the Principal, Canon Cosgrave. He was baptized and in November 1918 accompanied Canon Cosgrave back to England - the Canon having retired from the Ranchi school to take up the parish of Darlington. Jaipal Singh arrived in England in the aftermaths of the First World War and initially stayed in Darlington with the Canon. Three wealthy unmarried women, the Forsters, helped to take care of Jaipal Singh financially. He was sent to St Augustine's College in Canterbury to train for the priesthood, but after two terms, Bishop Arthur Mesacknight, the warden, sent him to Oxford - using his connections with Dr James, the president of St John's College.

Jaipal Singh matriculated at St John's College, Oxford, in Michaelmas 1922. He was awarded the Hertfordshire Scholarship of forty pounds by Bishop Knight and the Forsters bore most of the rest of his Oxford bills. Jaipal Singh studied PPE and was awarded a 4th in 1926. He was elected Secretary in 1924 and then President in 1925 of the St John's College Debating Society. He was a member of the Essay Society, a member of the college football XI in 1925-6, and the college hockey XI throughout his time at the college. Jaipal Singh also represented the University Hockey XI in Varsity matches from 1924 to 1926 and hence was awarded a hockey Blue. Jaipal Singh started the Oxford Hermits - a sports society for 'Asiatics' in Oxford - they mainly played hockey. Jaipal Singh then took the Indian Civil Service (ICS) exams, and was a probationary student at St John's.

In the meantime, Singh was involved in Indian students' hockey tours of Europe and the formation of the India Hockey Federation. In 1928, he captained the India Hockey Team at the Amsterdam Olympics. They won all their games without conceding a goal, and were awarded the gold medal. He often frequented Veeraswamy's restaurant in Regent Street and the victorious team were also feted at the restaurant and at 21 Cromwell Road.

Having taken part in the Olympics, Singh's ICS training was delayed and he then decided to quit the ICS. Through the Darlington MP, Lord Pake Pense, Singh was introduced to Viscount Bearstead, Chairman of Shell Transport and Trading Company who arranged for a job for Singh with the Burnham-Shell Oil Storage and Distributing Company of India. He was the first Indian to be appointed to a covenanted mercantile assistant in Royal Dutch Shell group, and after a probationary period in London was sent to Calcutta. In Calcutta, Singh met many British officials, clergymen and Indians through his contacts from his time in Britain. He met and married Tara Majumdar, the daughter of P. K. and Agnes Majumdar and grand-daughter of W. C. Bonnerjee. Singh took up a number of educational posts, including a position teaching commerce at Achimota College, Gold Coast, and then soon got involved in politics back in India. Singh presided over the All-India Adibasi Mahasabha, an organization that campaigned for tribal rights. After Indian independence the party became the Jharkand Party and saw their aims realized in 2000 when Jharkand was designated a separate state from Bihar.  

Date of birth: 
03 Jan 1903
Connections: 

Canon Cosgrave (mentor), Verrier Elwin (friend from Oriel College), Lord Irwin (congratulated him personally through telegram for his olympics' success), Iftikhar Ali Khan (Nawab of Pataudi), Janaki Agnes Majumdar (mother-in-law), J. C. Masterman (brother of the historian, who 'godfathered' Singh when he was at Oxford), Lilamani Naidu (daughter of Sarojini Naidu, who was also studying PPE at the same time as Singh; they often sat together - she was at Lady Margaret Hall).

Contributions to periodicals: 

Wrote hockey reports for the Isis (Oxford University journal)

Reviews: 

See reports of Oxford hockey matches and the olympics in various newspapers, including The Times

Secondary works: 

Katyayan, Rashmi (ed.), and Singh, Marang Gomke Jaipal, Lo Bir Sendra: An Autobiography (Kokar, Ranchi: Prabhat Khabar, 2004)

Archive source: 

St John's College Debating Society minute book, Essay Society minute book and Hockey XI photos, St John's College Archives, Oxford

City of birth: 
Takra Pahantoli, Bihar
Country of birth: 
India
Other names: 

Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh

Locations

Darlington DL3 7TH
United Kingdom
54° 33' 0.3888" N, 1° 33' 40.644" W
St John's College, Oxford, OX1 3JP
United Kingdom
51° 45' 23.076" N, 1° 15' 32.6412" W
St Augustine's College CT1 1PF
United Kingdom
51° 15' 57.888" N, 1° 4' 43.3056" E
Date of death: 
20 Mar 1970
Location of death: 
Delhi, India
Date of 1st arrival in Britain: 
01 Dec 1918
Precise 1st arrival date unknown: 
Y

Joseph Salter

About: 

Joseph Salter was a missionary based in the East End of London who focused his energies on 'Asiatics'. He worked for the London City Mission. Salter was the first and resident missionary at the Strangers' Home for Asiatics, Asians and South Sea Islanders, founded in 1857. The Maharaja Duleep Singh was one of the main benefactors for the Home. Salter wrote two books about his work with ex-lascars and other immigrants through this Home and his work in the area. He dedicated his first book to Duleep Singh. Salter gave various ethnographic sketches of the different people he met through his missionary work. He met Indians from the upper classes as well working class. He studied Hindi with the valet of Meer Jafur, the son of a courtier to the Gaekwad of Baroda, in order to evangelize to London-based Indians. Salter also helped establish the Ayahs' Home in Aldgate.

Published works: 

The Asiatic in England: Sketches of Sixteen Years among Orientals (London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1873)

The East in the West (London: S. W. Partridge & Co., 1896)

Connections: 
Secondary works: 

Fisher, Michael, Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain 1600-1857 (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004)

Mathur, Saloni, India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007)

Visram, Rozina, Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History (London: Pluto Press, 2002)

Archive source: 

L/PJ/6/2122, India Office Records, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras

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E. B. Bhose

About: 

E. B. Bhose was a missionary in charge of lascars in Britain. He was originally from Bengal and had worked with coolies in the West Indies before arriving in Britain. He was part of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.

In 1887, Bhose was appointed chaplain at St Luke's Lascar Mission in Victoria Docks. His mission room was also used as a Sunday school and a club room for leisure activities. Bhose visited lascars on the ships. He wrote regular mission reports which noted the observance of Muslim festivals by lascars in the ports. He died in 1905.

Contributions to periodicals: 

St Andrew's Waterside Church Mission Reports

Secondary works: 

Barrett, Daniel William, Sketches of Church Life in the Counties of Essex and Hertfordshire (London: Skeffington & Son, 1902)

Miller, Robert, From Shore to Shore (R. Miller, 1989)

Visram, Rozina, Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History (London: Pluto Press, 2002)

Other names: 

Reverend E. B. Bhose

Location

St Luke's Lascar Mission E16 1SL
United Kingdom
51° 30' 44.5644" N, 0° 0' 52.7868" E
Date of death: 
01 Mar 1905
Precise date of death unknown: 
Y
Location of death: 
England
Location: 

St Luke's Lascar Mission, Victoria Docks, London

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Pandita Ramabai

About: 

Pandita Ramabai was born in 1858 and orphaned in the famine of 1876-7. She came from a Marathi Brahmin family and was married in 1880 to a Brahmo Samajist, Bipin Behari Das Medhavi. He died nineteen months later, leaving her widowed with a baby daughter. Ramabai lectured on Sanskrit and the position of women in India and hence the title 'Pandita' was conferred onto her. Dr W. W. Hunter admired her work and spoke of her in lectures in Edinburgh, making her known in Britain. Ramabai was considering converting to Christianity and so the Society of St John the Evangelist at Poona made arrangements for her to go to England to answer her questions about the Christian faith.

In 1883, Ramabai arrived in Wantage to stay with the community of St Mary the Virgin. She also intended to study medicine. In September 1883, Ramabai and her daughter, Manorana, were baptized at Wantage. In 1884, Ramabai went to teach Sanskrit to women intending to become missionaries in India at Cheltenham Ladies' College, where she stayed until 1886. She then travelled to America and returned to India.

In March 1889, Ramabai opened a school in Bombay for women, and especially for widows. She received financial support from the Ramabai Association in America and from friends in England such as Dorothea Beale. In 1897, her daughter, Manorana, returned to Wantage to study medicine. Meanwhile, Ramabai moved her school to land she bought near Poona, now Pune. This place was known as Mukti Mission. Mukti was largely self-supporting with nearly 2000 people living there and with American and European helpers. Ramabai publicized the plight of the Hindu widow but also campaigned for Hindi to be the national language of India. Manorana died in 1921 and Ramabai died a year later in 1922.

Published works: 

The High-Caste Hindu Woman (London: Bell & Sons, 1888)

A Testimony (Kedgaon: Mukti Mission, 1917)

Date of birth: 
23 Apr 1858
Connections: 

Dorothea Beale, Sister Geraldine, Dr W. W. Hunter, Anandibai Joshi (cousin), Max MüllerKeshub Chunder Sen (in Calcutta).

Contributions to periodicals: 

The Cheltenham Ladies' College Magazine

Secondary works: 

Burton, Antoinette, At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998) 

Dyer, Helen S., Pandita Ramabai. The Story of Her Life (London: Morgan & Scott, 1900) 

Kosambi, Meera, Pandita Ramabai Through Her Own Words (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000) 

MacNicol, Nicol, Pandita Ramabai (Calcutta: Association Press, 1926) 

Sengupta, Padmini S., Pandita Ramabai Saraswati: Her Life and Work (Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1970)

Shah, A. B. (ed.), The Letters and Correspondence of Pandita Ramabai, compiled by Sister Geraldine (Bombay: Maharashtra State, 1977)

Symonds, Richard, ‘Ramabai, Pandita Mary Saraswati (1858–1922)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/56710]

Tharu, Susie and Lalita, K. (eds.), Women Writing in India. Volume 1: 600 BC to the Early Twentieth Century (Delhi: Osford University Press, 1991)

Archive source: 

Articles in Cheltenham Ladies' College Magazine and other material, Cheltenham Ladies' College Archive, Cheltenham

City of birth: 
Gangamul, near Mangalore
Country of birth: 
India
Other names: 

Pandita Mary Saraswati Ramabai

Locations

Cheltenham Ladies College GL50 3EP
United Kingdom
51° 53' 26.2788" N, 2° 5' 12.4656" W
Wantage OX12 8DZ
United Kingdom
51° 36' 33.3468" N, 1° 23' 59.6148" W
Date of death: 
05 Apr 1922
Location of death: 
Mukti, India
Date of 1st arrival in Britain: 
01 Jan 1883
Precise 1st arrival date unknown: 
Y
Dates of time spent in Britain: 

1883-6

Location: 

Wantage (1883-4)

Cheltenham Ladies' College, Cheltenham (1884-6)

Michael Madhusudan Dutt

About: 

Born in 1824, Madhusudan Dutt was the son of a lawyer. In 1830, he moved to Calcutta and later studied at Hindu College where he began to write poetry in English and Bengali. In 1842, his poems began to be published in literary magazines in India. He sent some to the editors of Blackwood's Magazine and Bentley's Miscellany in Britain but they were not published. He greatly admired Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley and had a fierce ambition to visit England. Dutt began to consider conversion to Christianity when his father proposed an arranged marriage to a Hindu girl. In 1843, Dutt ran away from home and was baptised. He moved to Madras and married an orphan called Rebecca.

Having returned to Calcutta, Dutt published the epic historical poem Meghnad-Badh-Kabya in Bengali, for which he is most famous. Having found little success in his poetry written in English, Dutt's works in Bengali were more favourably received. Dutt's Bengali poetry and plays influenced and encouraged others like Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and later Rabindranath Tagore.

He still had a strong desire to go to Britain and so raised enough money to leave in 1862. Initially he stayed with Manomohun Ghose and Satyendranath Tagore in London and was admitted to Gray's Inn. His second wife, Henrietta, and children joined him in 1863. Beset by financial difficulties and facing racial prejudice, they moved to Versailles. Dutt continued to return to London to attend the Bar dinners and lived in Shepherds Bush for a while. He was called to the Bar on 17 November 1866. Dutt sailed back to India in 1867 and tried to pursue a legal career. He died in 1873.

Published works: 

Works include:-

The Captive Ladie (1849)

Krishna Kumari (1861)

Meghnad-Badh-Kabya (1861)

Ratnavali (1858)

Sermista (1859)

Date of birth: 
25 Jan 1824
Connections: 

Manomohun Ghose (lawyer), Dr Theodore Goldstrucker (Professor of Sanskrit at UCL), Satyendranath Tagore, I. C. Vidyasagar.

Secondary works: 

Chaudhury, Rosinka, Gentlemen Poets in Colonial Bengal: Emergent Nationalism and the Orientalist Project (Calcutta: Seagull, 2002)

Datta, Michael Madhusudan, The Slaying of Meghanada: a Ramayana from Colonial Bengal, translated and with an introduction by Clinton B. Seely (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)

Gupta, Kshetra (ed.), Madhusudan Rachanabali (Calcutta: Sahitya Samsad, 1993) [Collected Works in Bengali]

Murshid, Ghulam, Lured by Hope: A Biography of Michael Madhusudan Dutt (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003)

Murshid, Ghulam (ed.), The Heart of a Rebel Poet: Letters of Michael Madhusudan Dutt (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004)

Archive source: 

Exam paper, Society for the Propagation of the Gospels Papers, Rhodes House Archives, Oxford

City of birth: 
Jessore, Bengal
Country of birth: 
India
Current name country of birth: 
Bangladesh
Other names: 

Michael Madhusudan Datta

M. M. Dutt

M. M. S. Dutt

Location

Russell Square, London WC1H 0DB
United Kingdom
51° 31' 38.7516" N, 0° 7' 16.2192" W
Date of death: 
29 Jun 1873
Location of death: 
Calcutta, India
Date of 1st arrival in Britain: 
01 Jul 1862
Precise 1st arrival date unknown: 
Y
Dates of time spent in Britain: 

July 1862 - April 1869

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Cornelia Sorabji

About: 

Cornelia Sorabji was an Indian Parsee Christian who is seen as India’s first female barrister although she was never technically called to the English Bar. She studied for a law degree at Somerville College, Oxford, (1889-93), the first woman to sit the law exams in the country. Despite standing first in university examinations at the Deccan College, Sorabji was not eligible for the Government of India scholarship to study in England. She studied in Britain with the help of funds raised by her British friends the Hobhouses.

When Sorabji first arrived in England she stayed with Elizabeth Adelaide Manning, Secretary of the National Indian Association. Sorabji had met Manning on her visit to India in January of that year. At Oxford, Sorabji developed an enduring friendship with the Master of Baliol College, Benjamin Jowett. This granted her access to members of the upper-classes of British society, and consequently she remained loyal to the British through her career. Sorabji's memoir, India Calling, recalls the number of prominent establishment figures Sorabji met during her time in Britain. Sorabji became a member of Lincoln’s Inn in 1922, having been barred as a woman when a student. Her career was dedicated to the cause of the ‘purdahnashins’ (secluded women) in India. In 1929 upon retirement, Cornelia Sorabji settled in England. She died in her home in Finsbury Park in 1954.

Published works: 

Love and Life Beyond the Purdah (London: Fremantle & Co., 1901)

Sun-Babies: Studies in the Child-Lfe of India (London: John Murray, 1904)

Between the Twilights: Being Studies of Indian Women by One of Themselves (London: Harper, 1908)

Indian Tales of the Great Ones Among Men, Women, and Bird-People (Bombay: Blackie, 1916)

The Purdahnashin, with a foreword by the Countess of Minto (Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co, 1917)

Sun Babies: Studies in Colour (London: Blackie, 1918)

Shubala - A Child Mother (Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1920)

Therefore: An Impression of Sorabji Kharshedji Langrana and His Wife Francina (London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1924)

Gold Mohur Time (London: Alexander Moring, 1930)

Susie Sorabji, Christian-Parsee Educationist of Western India: A Memoir (London: Oxford University Press, 1932)

India Calling: The Memories of Cornelia Sorabji (London: Nisbet & Co., 1934)

India Recalled (London: Nisbet & Co., 1936)

Queen Mary’s Book of India (London: Harrap, 1943)

 

Reprints of her work:

Sorabji, Cornelia, India Calling, ed. by Elleke Boehmer and Naella Grew (Nottingham: Trent Editions, 2004)

Sorabji, Cornelia, Love and Life Behind The Purdah, ed. by Chandani Lokuge (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003)

Example: 

Letter dated March 1890, Mss Eur F165/2

Date of birth: 
01 Nov 1866
Content: 

Letters from Cornelia Sorabji to her parents when in England.

Connections: 

E. J. Beck, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Lord Arthur and Lady Mary Hobhouse, Benjamin Jowett, Elizabeth Adelaide Manning, Max Müller, Monier Monier-Williams, Florence Nightingale, Alice Sorabji Pennell.

Association of University Women in India, Bengal Branch of the National Council of Women in India, Bengal League of Social Service for Women, Federation of University Women.

Contributions to periodicals: 

Asiatic Review

Atlantic Monthly

Calcutta Review

Contemporary Russia, Empire and Review

The Englishman

Evening News

Indian Magazine

Macmillan's Magazine

The Monthly Review

Nineteenth Century

The Statesman

Temple Bar

The Times

Reviews: 

The Athenæum

Parisianna

The Times

The Times Literary Supplement

 

Extract: 

Next term we are to have two Indian Princesses in residence here – the daughters of Dhuleep Singh. They are to have a maid to look after them & their governess will reside in Town - & we are to call them “Princess”. The sweet Warden was telling me about it & began “I want you to be very good to me next Term & help me make our Princesses happy”. I wonder if they will be snobbish.

Secondary works: 

Adams, Pauline, Somerville for Women: An Oxford College, 1879-1993 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)

Burton, Antoinette, At The Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter In late Victorian Britain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)

Burton, Antoinette, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915 (University of North Carolina Press, 1994)

Burton, Antoinette, Dwelling In The Archive: Women Writing House, Home and History in Late Colonial India (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)

Burton, Antoinette (ed.), Politics And Empire in Victorian Britain (Palgrave, New York, 2001)

Gooptu, Suparna, Cornelia Sorabji - India’s Pioneering Woman Lawyer (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006)

Forbes, Geraldine, Women in Modern India - The New Cambridge History of India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)

Innes, C. L., A History of Black and Asian Writing in Britain, 1700–2000, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Jayawardena, Kumari, The White Woman’s Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia during British Colonial Rule (London: Routledge, 1995)

Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (ed.), A History Of Indian Literature In English (London: Hurst & Company, 2003)

Sarkar, Sonita and De, Esha Niyogi, Trans-status Subjects: Gender in the Globalisation of South and South-East Asia (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002)

Sorabji, Richard, Opening Doors: The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji, Reformer, Lawyer and Champion of Women's Rights in India (London: I. B. Tauris, 2010)

Symonds, Richard, Oxford and Empire: The Lost Cause? (Oxford: Clarendon, 1986)

Tharu, Susie, and Lalitha, K. (eds), Women Writing In India: 600BC To The Present, vol. 1 (New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1991)

Vadgama, K., India In Britain: The Indian Contribution to the British Way of Life (London: R. Royce, 1984)

Visram, Rozina, Ayahs, Lascars and Princes: The Story of Indians in Britain, 1700-1947 (London: Pluto Press, 1986)

Relevance: 

The letters of Cornelia Sorabji to her parents describe her time in Britain as a student and the extract cited here reveals her attitudes towards other South Asians, and in particular here Indian princesses. The extract also reveals the close relationship that Sorabji had with the Warden of her college, Somerville, similar to the close relationship she had with many other British figures of authority.

Archive source: 

 

7MGF, letters to M. G. Fawcett, The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University

L/I/1/1520, India Office Records, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras

Mss Eur F165 (letters), Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras

City of birth: 
Nasik
Country of birth: 
India

Locations

Somerville College Oxford, OX2 6HD
United Kingdom
51° 47' 13.6464" N, 1° 17' 24.6012" W
22 Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn London, WC2A 3UP
United Kingdom
51° 30' 52.6572" N, 0° 6' 40.3056" W
Finsbury Park
London, N4 3EU
United Kingdom
51° 33' 54.2304" N, 0° 5' 51.4644" W
Date of death: 
06 Jul 1954
Location of death: 
Finsbury Park, London
Date of 1st arrival in Britain: 
01 Jan 1889
Precise 1st arrival date unknown: 
Y
Dates of time spent in Britain: 

1889-94 (studied for BCL degree at Somerville College, Oxford, then trained at solicitor’s firm in Lincoln’s Inn, London)
1922-3 (moved to England and stayed at the Halcyon Club, 13/14 Cork Street, London)
1925 (visited England and stayed at the Halcyon Club, London)
1932 (visited England for treatment of deteriorating health)
1938 (settled permanently for England)

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