Friendships of 'Largeness and Freedom'

Andrews, Tagore, and Gandhi : An Epistolary Account, 1912-1940

Edited by Uma Das Gupta

This book is a story of friendship between three remarkable individuals drawn from their lifelong work for India's freedom

Friendships of 'Largeness and Freedom'

Andrews, Tagore, and Gandhi : An Epistolary Account, 1912-1940

Edited by Uma Das Gupta

Description

This book is a story of friendship between three remarkable individuals drawn from their lifelong work for India's freedom. They were Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and the Anglican missionary, Charles Freer Andrews, who became a most loving friend to both Tagore and Gandhi. The universal principles they applied in attaining that goal have given us an alternative legacy. It is the legacy of a nationalism that worked with complete restraint, a legacy that cried halt to the movement whenever it turned violent, that proclaimed the way forward to be in self-suffering and not in hatred of the enemy.

Friendships of 'Largeness and Freedom'

Andrews, Tagore, and Gandhi : An Epistolary Account, 1912-1940

Edited by Uma Das Gupta

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction

1. Their Friendship, Their Struggles
2. South Africa and India's Honour
3. Santiniketan and Phoenix Schools
4. World War I
5. Dilemmas, Depressions, Uplifts
6. Simla, Britain, India
7. Rowlatt Bills and After
8. Non-Cooperation
9. Their Differences
10. Movement in the 1920s
11. Movement South Africa
12. Movement in the 1930s
13. Gandhi's Work, Gandhi's Message, Andrews, Tagore
14. Tagore's Works, Tagore's Message, Andrews, Gandhi

Appendices
Bibliography
Index

Friendships of 'Largeness and Freedom'

Andrews, Tagore, and Gandhi : An Epistolary Account, 1912-1940

Edited by Uma Das Gupta

Author Information

Edited by Uma Das Gupta, Former Research Professor, Social Science Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Uma Das Gupta is a Former Research Professor, Social Science Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Served the United States Educational Foundation in India as Director for Eastern India. Held Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard University and Columbia University. Held National Fellowship at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.

Friendships of 'Largeness and Freedom'

Andrews, Tagore, and Gandhi : An Epistolary Account, 1912-1940

Edited by Uma Das Gupta

Reviews and Awards

"This captivating book is the first collection ever published of the letters Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, and Charles Andrews wrote to one another, turn by turn, over nearly 30 years. Each of these remarkable people speaks openly and freely to the two others- their very closest friends- about matters simultaneously of enormous political moment and intense personal importance." - Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, The Hindu

"I must congratulate the editor for a selection of letters which leads deep into the heart of India's struggle for political, social and emotional independence through the minds of three of modern India's greatest men." - Martin Kämpchen, The Telegraph, Kolkata

"This book is the product of dedicated scholarship and historical grasp of a critical period of Indian history. It succeeds in its laudable exercise of bringing together the letters (1912-1940) that provide us an insight into the intermeshing public as well as private dialogues of three key figures, each in his own distinct way driven by the question of political, moral and spiritual dimensions of India's freedom... The author claims that 'there has been no work till now on the three correspondents together as in this volume.' Stated with characteristic humility, this is an absolute truth which sustains the originality of this work." - Shirshendu Chakravarti, Dehli

"a collection of love and longing, of fellowship and loneliness, of a quest for truth and beauty. And it is these qualities that draws us in to it, giving a timelessness and universality that even the most beauteous of non-cooperation cannot achieve." - Tridip Suhrid, ^{he Indian Express}

"the three correspondents enable us to look at the Indian nationalist movement 'differently' and to find in them some of the seminal ideas that went into the making of the modern Indian nation. The volume is surely a collector's item." - Somdatta Mandal, The Statesman