Abstract
After the First World War, most Indian students, academics, artists and religious evangels would have found ready for them in London a niche within one or another established expatriate milieu. But their predecessors, the intellectual itinerants of the 1890s, negotiated more precarious, more solitary trans- Suez pilgrimages. They also enjoyed greater novelty of experience, liberality of association and – privilege of the exile – freedom to explore occult identities and ideological positions. Theirs was an experimental generation, the metropolis their laboratory. The most prominent among them, the barrister-turned- activist M. K. Gandhi, memorably subtitled his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | India in Britain |
| Subtitle of host publication | South Asian Networks and Connections, 1858-1950 |
| Editors | Susheila Nasta |
| Place of Publication | Basingstoke |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |