Pub Date : 2018-08-09DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199481217.003.0005
The letters in this chapter are about how lonely and tired, ill and depressed, the three friends would get from time to time. They were incessantly fighting against odds, personal and national, but never doubting their innate faith in God nor losing their spirit of self-scrutiny. In both moral and practical ways they idealized prayaschit or atonement and practised self-suffering. In August 1920 Tagore described their predicament to Andrews when he wrote: ‘The most difficult problem is ours, which is how to gain our freedom of soul in spite of the crampedness of outward circumstances, how to ignore the perpetual insult of our destiny to be able to uphold the dignity of man.’
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Pub Date : 2018-08-09DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199481217.003.0002
A new Immigration Bill passed by the Government of South Africa in March 1913 made things worse for the Natal Indians by adversely affecting even their existing rights. Gandhi saw the writing on the wall. He knew this to be a deliberate attempt to rid South Africa of its resident Indian population. The three friends were in no doubt that the Indian problem in South Africa was driven by racism. Given that premise, Andrews was overcome with joy when he discovered copies of Tagore’s Gitanjali (Song Offerings) verses in several houses in Durban and Pretoria. He was also pleased at being asked to speak about Tagore’s poetry to audiences there. His experience in South Africa confirmed what Tagore’s ideas could do in fractured environments.
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Pub Date : 2018-08-09DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199481217.003.0003
After meeting Tagore in 1912, Andrews was seriously considering moving to Santiniketan to help with Tagore’s school there. He came to visit the Santiniketan school for the first time in March 1913 and then again in July. Tagore was still in England but his elder brother Dwijendranath, who was everybody’s Barodada (elder brother), lived in Santiniketan. He and Andrews were greatly drawn to one another as the joyous letters Andrews wrote from his visits to the school convey. Andrews moved to Santiniketan in 1914 on leaving missionary service altogether. Another former missionary William Pearson was also teaching at Santiniketan. In November 1914 Gandhi’s boys from the Phoenix School also came to Santiniketan after leaving South Africa. On 12 November 1914 Pearson wrote to Gandhi: ‘Your big family arrived here last Saturday from the Gurukul all very well and happy.’
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