Sykes, Marjorie

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Name (Latin)
Sykes, Marjorie
Date of birth
1905-05-11
Date of death
1995-08-17
Place of birth
Tamil Nadu (India)
Gender
female
Biographical or Historical Data
b. 1905
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 18465430
Wikidata: Q18917706
Library of congress: n 50012699
Sources of Information
  • Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1905)
  • LC man. auth. cd.(hdg.: Sykes, Marjorie, 1905-; citation: Rabindranath Tagore, 1944: of the teaching staff of Visva-bharati, 1939-42; letter from author: b. May 11, 1905, Kotagiri, Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu; has trans. books from Bengali and Hindi [Miss])
  • Her Rabindranath Tagore, 1944.

Wikipedia description:

Marjorie Sykes (11 May 1905 – 17 August 1995) was a British-born Indian educator who went to live in India in the 1920s and joined the Indian independence movement, spending most of the remainder of her life in India. She wrote many books and became acquainted with many of the leading figures in Indian politics and culture, including Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi.

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