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Amery, Leo First Lord of the Admiralty (1922-1924), Secretary of State for the Colonies (1924-1929), and Secretary of State for India and Burma (1940-1945) -
Gandhi, Mahatma Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and nonviolence leader who led India's successful independence campaign from the British Empire in the twentieth century. -
Napier, Robert, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala British Indian Army officer in the nineteenth century. Napier fought in several colonial conflicts in India and China, as well as leading the British expedition to Abyssinia from 1867 to 1868. -
Orwell, George English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name 'George Orwell'. Eric Arthur Blair was born in Motihari, Bengal in 1903 to Richard Walmesley Blair, an Indian Civil Service agent, and Ida Mabel Blair. Orwell's great-great-grandfather, Charles Blair, was an absentee slave-owner of two estates in Jamaica. Orwell had a complex relationship to the British Empire and class society in twentieth century Britain. From 1922 to 1927, he served as a police officer with the Imperial Indian Police in colonial Burma. Orwell would later recount his colonial experiences in several writings, including the novel Burmese Days (1934) and the essays 'A Hanging' (1931) and 'Shooting an Elephant' (1936). -
Roberts, Frederick, 1st Earl Roberts British military commander in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Roberts served as Commander-in-Chief, Madras Army (1880-1885), Commander-in-Chief, India (1885-1893), Commander-in-Chief, Ireland (1895-1900), Commander-in-Chief of British Forces in South Africa (1900), and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces (1904). -
Tagore, Rabindranath Bengali-Indian poet, dramatist, writer, educationist and artist, the first winner of the Nobel Prize from India. Tagore founded Vishwabharati University, at Shantiniketan, India, to apply his principles of alternative pedagogy. He inspired Leonard Elmhirst to found the Dartington Hall in Devon, premised on similar educational principles.