Phillips Talbot’s India fellowship coincided with the country’s independence movement. He witnessed the partition of India and Pakistan and got to know the leaders of both new countries, including Mahatma Gandhi. His fellowship began in 1938 and ended in 1950, interrupted by World War II, during which he served in naval intelligence. Previously a reporter for the Chicago Daily News, after his fellowship he went on to help found and run the insti…
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