The Missionary and the Maharajas: Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe and the Making of Modern Kashmir

by Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe

Book Overview

Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe polarised opinion in early 20th century India through his unconventional methods of "educating" Kashmiris and, through them, changing the social order of a society steeped in what he saw as old superstitions. He was a man of contradictions: an ordained Priest and a violent boxer; a supposed educator who supported imperialism; a missionary who made very few converts and a friend of Kashmir's political reformers. He made enemies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350345814
• ISBN13: 9781350345812
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"