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As the iconic Visva-Bharati University, founded by Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan, enters its centenary year, a unique and interesting documentary titled Shikkhateertho, meaning a pilgrimage of e
In Jesus’ instructions to his disciples from our Gospel reading today, he describes their ministry as being students of God, and ultimately, servants of humanity. Charles Freer Andrews certainly took both to heart in his ministry. What might we learn from the life of the man who was one of the very few who called Mahatma Gandhi “Mohan”, and Gandhi called “Charlie?”
For starters, few people would have predicted that he would have ended up as an Anglican. Andrews was born in 1871 in Newcastle upon Tyne in England to a family who were practitioners of the Catholic Apostolic Church–a sect that believed in prophecy, speaking in tongues, and the regular occurrence of healing miracles–considered to be one of the ancestors of what would come to be known in the United States as Pentecostalism. His father held the title of “angel” (roughly equivalent to a bishop) in Birmingham. Yet he began to embrace Anglicanism in his teenage and college years and was ordained fi
Book Review: How Historians and Intellectuals Justified the British Empire s Conquest
Priya Satia shows persuasively in her book Time s Monster: History, Conscience and Britain s Empire that the Empire s economic exploitation was buttressed by policies that sought to reform and civilise the colonised.
The British Union Jack. Photo: Reuters
History31/Jan/2021
In the 19th century, history and history writing were handmaidens of British imperialism. Historians wrote to justify empire; politicians and public figures used history to rationalise acts of conquest. Dominating the intellectual landscape at that time was the idea of progress which was derived from the Enlightenment and from the development of capitalism subsequent to the Industrial Revolution.