TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whitehead,Andrew
TI  - Lives of Freda: the political, spiritual and personal journeys of Freda Bedi 
SN  - 9789388070751
U1  - 294.3923092 WHI 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Speaking Tiger
KW  - Bedi, Freda,
KW  - Buddhist women
KW  - India
KW  - Biography
KW  - Buddhist nuns
KW  - Nationalists
KW  - English
KW  - fast
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Gratis
Rs.499/-; Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-345) and index; Tibetan Buddhist terms -- Prologue : putting on the robes -- The Suicide Club -- The gates of the world -- Everything that was good in us -- Your people shall be my people -- The huts beyond model town -- A martyr awaiting execution -- Behind the mud walls -- From a woman's window -- Bengal lamenting -- Kashmir in disguise -- A new world -- Buddha and Baba -- Brave and wonderful people -- The Young Lamas' Home School -- A nun's life -- Seeding the west -- Sister and mother -- Postscript; Also available as an e-book
N2  - From the moment she married a handsome young Sikh at a registry office in Oxford in 1933, Freda Bedi, nee Houlston, regarded herself as Indian, even though it was another year before she set foot in the country. She was English by birth and upbringing - and Indian by marriage, cultural affinity and political loyalty. Later, she travelled the world as a revered Buddhist teacher, but India would remain her home to the end
ER  -