It was not without good cause that a friend once described me as a combination of sacred cow and ferocious tiger.”  – Gandhi, Moral and Political Writings, Vol. 1, pp. 28-29 Gandhi was an eccentric and thorny individual even by the standards of his day. When asked to dress in an appropriate manner to have […]

Apart from a mission to the shrine of the apostle Thomas in Mylapore (a suburb of modern Chennai) sent by Alfred the Great in the 880s, there was little direct contact between Britain and South Asia before the 1500s. India was, however, well-known through literature in Latin, Old and Middle English. Indian commodities, most notably […]