Foreword 1. Prologue 1659 2. Two Centuries of Change 1659–1859 3. The British India Society 1815–1843 4. Some ‘Honest Englishmen’ 1843–1885 5. Indian Initiatives: Quaker Responses 1861–1864 6. Benares and Beyond 1864–1872 7. Quaker Missionaries 1873–1901 8. The Might-Have-Beens 1880–1900 9. The Triple Stream 10. Cross Currents 11. ‘Quakers Embassies’ 12. Points of View
Biography
Marjorie Sykes was British-born Indian educator who went to live in India in the 1920s and joined the Indian independence movement. She wrote many books and became acquainted with leading figures in Indian politics and culture, including Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi.
Review of the first publication:
‘The book gathers together material that is nowhere else gathered together, and marshals it in a form that can be readily assimilated by the non-specialist. It sets in their historical perspective issues, cultural as well as religious, that are perennial and contemporary.’
— Edward Milligan, Quaker historian
