Chandrika Kaul - M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and Society: New Perspectives

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To commemorate Gandhis 150th birth anniversary in October 2019, David Bulla and I organised an international conference in St Andrews and early versions of all but two of the chapters in this book were delivered as papers on that occasion. I am grateful to the School of History for the award of a conference grant and to David (University of Augusta) for putting the conference programme together. Lorna Harris played a stellar role in arranging the myriad practical details of the conference, Margaret MacDonald helped with the registration, and Emma Morris was an excellent researcher. I am very grateful for their assistance.

I would like to thank Palgrave Macmillan for permission to use select material from my Chaps.. My deep thanks to Dr Malcolm Dunstan for his support, and for permission to cite from E.C. Dunstans unpublished memoirs, as well as to Louise North for granting permission from the BBC Written Archives Centre. BBC copyright content is reproduced courtesy of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Last, but by no means least, I owe a massive thank you to Emily Russell and her assistant Joe Johnson at Palgrave Macmillan, for their prompt and unstinting support. The final stages of the research for these chapters were undertaken during the challenging circumstances of the international lockdown due to Covid-19. We would be grateful for the indulgence of you, the reader, for any errors of fact or shortcomings in interpretation.