The extraordinary story of an Englishwoman who became Indian; a person born and raised at the heart of Empire who went to jail because she believed in a free India; a Christian girl who became a world renowned Bhiksuni, a Buddhist nun.
From the moment she married a handsome young Sikh at a registry office in Oxford in 1933, Freda Bedi, n e Houlston, regarded herself as Indian, even though it was another year before she set...