The Rev., C. F. ANDREWS
After a distinguished career at Cambridge, tonight's speaker joined the Cambridge Brotherhood, Delhi, in 1904, and was a Fellow of Punjab University in 1908. In 1931 he joined Rabindranath Tagore 's Institution at Santiniketan, Bengal, of which he is now Vice-President. He went to South Africa to help in the Smuts-Gandhi Agreement, 1913 to 1914, and to Fiji concerning the Abolition of Indentured Indian Labour in 1915 and 1917. He was Adviser to the Indian Delegation at the Kenya Conversations held in London in 1923, and he went to South Africa again in 1925 to help in the Indo-Union Agreement, which was signed in January, 1927. Two years later he visited British Guiana with reference to East Indian settlers.
It will thus be seen that the Rev.
C. F. Andrews has devoted his life to India. He is the first speaker in this series who has made India his home. Among numerous publications, he has written three books on Mahatma Gandhi , whose personal friend he is : ' The Indians' Problems ', ' India and the Simon Report' published in 1930, and ' Sadhu Sundar Singh ', published last year.