12 March 2014 Thomas Jewell Bennett: an early supporter of Indian Home Rule 'Private letters are like gold-dust', I was told when my family donated to the British Library a small collection of letters and printed documents belonging to my great-uncle by marriage, Sir Thomas Jewell Bennett (1852-1925). As editor and principal proprietor of The Times of India, 1894-1901, he modernised and expanded the business until it would come to be regarded as the leading newspaper in Asia. (snip) http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2014/03/thomas-jewell-bennett-an-early-supporter-of-indian-home-rule.html ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar