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An American in Gandhi's India : the biography of Satyanand Stokes / Asha Sharma ; with Nandini Sharma ; foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Van Pelt Library DS480.45 .S4674 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sharma, Asha.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stokes, Samuel, 1882-1946.
- Stokes, Samuel.
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
- History.
- Hindu converts from Christianity.
- Friends and associates.
- Political activists.
- Apple growers.
- Americans.
- India--Politics and government--1919-1947.
- India.
- Politics and government.
- Americans--India--Biography.
- Missionaries--India--Biography.
- Missionaries.
- India--Himachal Pradesh.
- Apple growers--India--Himachal Pradesh--Biography.
- Social workers--India--Biography.
- Social workers.
- Political activists--India--Biography.
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948--Friends and associates.
- Gandhi.
- Hindu converts from Christianity--India--Biography.
- India--History--20th century--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 373 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr., son of a prominent Philadelphia family of Quaker heritage, was just 21 years old 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 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. Asha Sharma's fascinating account offers a rare glimpse into a century of interaction between India and the United States.
- Contents:
- 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
- 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 Gandhi-Test of Friendship 187
- 18 Johnny Appleseed of the Himalayas 198
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- First published: New Delhi : Penguin Books India ; New York, NY : Penguin Putnam, 1999, with title An American in khadi : the definitive biography of Satyanand Stokes.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-363) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253351586
- 0253351588
- 9780253219909
- 0253219906
- OCLC:
- 177008291
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