Khurshedben Naoroji: The singer who preached nonviolence to bandits

Khurshedben Naoroji at a function in Athens in 1924

In her youth, Khurshedben lived in the poshest quarters of Bombay and became an accomplished classical soprano. Family and friends dubbed her "bul" or nightingale.In the early 1920s, she relocated to Paris to study music, but found herself culturally adrift in Europe until she crossed paths with another expatriate woman, Eva Palmer Sikelianos.

Remarkably, "Mother Greece" - as she referred to the country - helped refocus her energies on Mother India. As Sikelianos's biographer Artemis Leontis notes, Khurshedben spoke wistfully about India and about joining Mahatma Gandhi's movement for freedom from the British colonial rule.

For Khurshedben, the answer to this dilemma was obvious - she would approach the dacoits, encourage them to desist from banditry and embrace Gandhian nonviolence.

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