Quakers in India

<p>First published in 1980 <i>Quakers in India </i>is an account of the Quaker encounter with India from the day the first Quaker-owned ship sailed from Liverpool for Calcutta in 1815 until more than a century later. Quakers both Indian and expatriate shared the joys and the sufferings of the final struggle which brought two new nations to birth in 1947. It is a book about people many of them forgotten who have been rediscovered and brought back to life with their vision courage and blind spots by a piece of historical detective work contagious in its enthusiasm.</p><p>The author British by birth writes out of a lifetime spent in India and from an Indian standpoint. The fact that she herself first met Quakers in India in the context of the religious and cultural dialogue stimulated by their contact with the Indian ferment of the twenties and thirties of the 1900s gives her book a unique flavour. An objective historical study it will be a beneficial read for students and researchers of History and general readers interested in the topic.</p>