C.F Andrews: Friend of India

Paper Type: Book print paper | Size: 185 mm x 125 mm
Black and white; 100 pages; Paperback

ISBN-10: 9381523770 | ISBN-13: 978-93-81523-77-3

Biography, Memoir

150 | 6 | 4.99

Written in 1944, this little book is a survey and estimate of CF Andrews’ life and work in the nearly forty years he lived in India. It describes his human traits, his many abiding friendships and his relationship with India and Indians. Late Prof. Mushirul Hasan’s introduction provides the context within which contemporary readers can understand the relevance of Andrews’ relationship with India.

Nicol Macnicol

Author

After a distinguished career in the University of Glasgow and the Free Church of Scotland Theological College, Nicol Macnicol was appointed to the Western India mission of the Free Church of Scotland (later United Free) and for five years worked in Bombay, being in charge of the Wilson High School and also doing general evangelistic work.

Mushirul Hasan

Editor

Late Professor Mushirul Hasan was an internationally renowned historian, prolific author and former Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He is presently the Director-General of the National Archives of India. Professor Hasan has published books on India’s Partition, on communalism, and on the histories of Islam in South Asia. He has authored Partners in Freedom: Jamia Millia Islamia (2006); The Avadh Punch: Wit and Humour in Colonial North India (2007) and Wit and Wisdom: Pickings from the Parsee Punch (2012); and edited Mutiny Memoirs (2009); Sarojini Naidu: Her Way with Words (2012). He was also editor of the ongoing multi-volume history of the Indian National Congress, brought out by Niyogi Books starting in 2012