Gandhi,Dinabandhu and Din-sevak

Abstract

Despite Anglican Christianity’s frequent close association with the state, there have always been some, inspired by Christianity’s founder, who have taken a more independent line, none more strikingly so than two English missionaries in India, C.F. Andrews and Verrier Elwin, who broke with prevailing loyalties and in the strength of profound friendships with Gandhi, identified with Indian interests and nationalist aspirations during the half century prior to Indian Independence.