Foreigners role in the Indian struggle for freedom

Several foreigners made India their homeland and participated in various movements.

(i) A.O. Hume was founded INC in 1885. He was a liberal British Civil Servant sympathetic to India’s freedom struggle and worked for Congress in India. He is known as ‘Father of Indian Ornithology’. 

(ii) Annie Besant of Ireland, founded Home Rule League and the Theosophical society in India. She also edited ‘New India and Commonwealth’. 

(iii)Sister Nivedita was Scots-Irish social worker, author and disciple of Swami Vivekananda. She had close associates with the Ramakrishna Mission during its inception. Her epitaph reads “Here reposes Sister Nivedita who gave her all to India”. 

(iv)C.F. Andrews worked with Gandhi in South Africa and also in India. He was known as “Deenbandhu”, and he denounced Begari in Himachal. He organized relief operation for Orissa flood victims and earthquakes of Bihar.

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