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The article is considered the life and work of Catherine Mary Heileman, known in India as Sarala Behn. This British woman, who called herself the «Gandhi’s English disciple», made an important contribution to the spread of the ideas of Gandhianism in northern India. For a long time remaining a little-known figure, now she came to the fore relating to the beginning attempts to reconstruct the «feminine principle» in the history of Gandhianism. In 1946, Sarala Behn founded Lakshmi Ashram, which became a stronghold of Gandhian anti-imperialist politics and philosophy in the Himalayas, as well as a center for Gandhian women's education and training of civic activists who have led several social movements in India over the past half century. |
