An American in Gandhi's India: The Biography of Satyanand StokesIndiana University Press, 2008 - 373 من الصفحات Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr., a son of a prominent Philadelphia family, was a 21-year-old Quaker missionary when he arrived in India in 1904 to work in a home for lepers. He soon became disillusioned with the foreign missionary community and began a new spiritual quest, adopting Indian dress, forgoing the privileges of a Westerner in colonial India, and founding a mendicant religious brotherhood. Later in life he married a Rajput Christian girl, converted to Hinduism, and adopted a new name. Stokes became a leader in Gandhi's independence movement in the 1920s, and was the only American jailed by the British for this cause. He is most often remembered in India, however, as the man who introduced American Delicious apples to the Himalayas. An American in Gandhi's India draws on oral history and interviews as well as Stokes's books, journals, and letters. Sharma's fascinating account offers a rare glimpse into a century of interaction between India and the United States. |
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Prologue | 1 |
1 A Journey of No Return | 3 |
2 The Quest Begins | 14 |
3 The Ascetic | 26 |
4 Visit Home | 38 |
5 The Brotherhood in India | 51 |
6 Alternate Path | 59 |
7 An Inner Struggle | 65 |
19 A School in My Garden | 206 |
20 Came to Teach and Stayed to Learn | 221 |
21 Satyakamvadi | 237 |
22 The Burdens Increase | 254 |
23 Marketing the Fruits of Labor | 266 |
24 World War II and After | 275 |
25 The Vedantist | 283 |
26 Eventide | 294 |
8 Home at Last a Family Man | 77 |
9 War on Two Fronts | 92 |
10 For the Rights of Men Begar | 103 |
11 Joining the Freedom Struggle | 114 |
12 The Fight Continues | 123 |
13 In Khadi | 132 |
14 Following the National Trail | 139 |
15 Arrest and Trial | 146 |
16 Guest of the British Empire | 156 |
17 Debates with GandhiTest of Friendship | 187 |
18 Johnny Appleseed of the Himalayas | 198 |
Epilogue | 304 |
Acknowledgments | 315 |
Appendix 1 Folk Song Composed on the Occasion of Stokes Marriage | 319 |
Appendix 2 Stokes Written Statement | 321 |
Appendix 3 Verses Written in Jail | 328 |
Glossary | 331 |
Notes | 335 |
Bibliography | 359 |
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back cover | 375 |