The letters of Sushila Gandhi: From press worker to managing trustee of Phoenix settlement in South Africa, 1927 to 1977

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dc.contributor.authorMesthrie, UD
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-29T13:10:01Z
dc.date.available2023-03-29T13:10:01Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractOn 18 March 1949, Sita Gandhi, the eldest daughter of Manilal and Sushila Gandhi, responded to a request for information from Louis Fischer who was writing his biography of Mohandas Gandhi. The 21 years old had taken over clerical responsibilities in the printing press at Phoenix Settlement where her father edited and published Indian Opinion, the paper Gandhi started in 1903 during his South African stay. With impeccable English and beautiful handwriting, signaling the importance of awaiting her father�s return from India, she added: �My mother doesn�t write English �� (Louis Fischer Papers, Box 3). Language, thus, coldly cut Fischer from accessing Sushila and rendered her muteen_US
dc.identifier.citationDhupelia-Mesthrie, U. (2023). The letters of Sushila Gandhi: From press worker to managing trustee of Phoenix settlement in South Africa, 1927 to 1977 . Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 30(1), 11-32.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0971-5215, 0973-0672
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/8699
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_US
dc.subjectGandhien_US
dc.subjectPhoenixen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectIndian opinionen_US
dc.subjectAutobiographyen_US
dc.subjectCultureen_US
dc.subjectRaceen_US
dc.titleThe letters of Sushila Gandhi: From press worker to managing trustee of Phoenix settlement in South Africa, 1927 to 1977en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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