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An Account of My Journey to England (eBook Edition)

by Ashish J. Mehta

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This travelogue is a revealing account of England in the middle of the Industrial Age over a century and a half ago, as viewed by the author from a nation then colonized by Britain. It highlights the profound and, in some ways, seemingly unbridgeable chasm between Britain—molded by over a century of almost galloping growth in science, technology, and manufacturing—and the barely touched people of his home region of Gujarat in western India. The author’s perceptions on the virtues of democratic social norms in England and the contrasting behavior of British officers in India are intertwined with passion, curiosity, and ethical convictions.

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Format: Universal eBook Format, 119 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Jun 05, 2025)
ISBN10: 1977283780
ISBN13: 9781977283788
Genre: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General

Author Information...

At the time of Mahipatram Rupram Nilkanth’s birth in 1929 in Surat, the city was nominally under a Mughal Nawab but effectively administered by the colonial government of the Bombay Presidency. Mahipatram belonged to the Vadnagara Nagar Grihastha Brahmin community well-known for its millennial association with the upper administrative functions of governments. He was sent to the new Government English School in Surat where his social opinions were influenced by the British teachers he came to know. The visit to England in 1860/61 to learn about teaching methods in schools was sponsored by the Bombay Department of Education. For this act of leaving the shores of Gujarat, he was socially ostracized by his community. Yet, he tirelessly devoted his life to the cause of social reform, particularly in co-founding and working with institutions to shelter orphans and old people, encouraging widow remarriage, and preventing the customary child remarriages. He wrote several works in Gujarati and was twice awarded titles by the government for the leading role he played in guiding social organizations. Ashish J. Mehta, the translator of this work, is a great-great grandson of the author.
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