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From: International Bulletin of Missionary Research
Date: 19930101
Author:Sharpe, Eric J.

Despite his cameo clerical-collared appearance in the Gandhi film, one tends to forget that Charles Freer Andrews (1871-1940) was ever a missionary in the conventional sense. In 1914, when he relinquished his teaching post at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, to join Rabindranath Tagore at Shantiniketan, he had been a missionary for a decade--a turbulent decade in modern Indian history. From the moment he set foot in India and found himself a sahib, he had been working up to some such gesture.

Andrews, far more than most of his missionary contemporaries, was a personal meeting point ...

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