Annette Beveridge

Annette Susannah Beveridge (née Akroyd) (1842–1929) was a British Orientalist known for her translation of the Humayun-nama[1] and the Babur-nama.[2]

Annette Beveridge
Born
Annette Susannah Akroyd

(1842-12-13)13 December 1842
Mount Street, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England
Died29 March 1929(1929-03-29) (aged 86)
26 Porchester Square, Bayswater, London, England

Background and education

Annette Akroyd's father William Akroyd was a Unitarian industrialist associated with the establishment of the Bedford College, London in 1849, where she completed her study in 1863.[3]

Work in India
Annette Akroyd with the students of Hindu Mahila Vidyalaya, 1875.

In October 1872 she sailed for British India. Around 1875 she was involved in a public controversy with Keshub Chandra Sen, an Indian philosopher and social reformer who attempted to incorporate Christian theology within the framework of Hindu thought. Akroyd was shocked by her discussions with him and felt that Sen, who spoke up for women's education in England, was a typical Hindu obscurantist back home in India, trying to keep knowledge from the minds of women.[4] This dispute spilled into the native press and had its impact on the Bethune School. Akroyd was also dismayed with Sen's associates such as Bijoy Krishna Goswami, Aghore Nath Gupta and Gour Govinda Ray, who were traditionally Hindu in educational background and resisted the education of women.

"Mr. Sen had a strong prejudice against university education, in fact, against what is generally regarded as high education, of women. He objected to teaching them, for instance, such subjects as Mathematics, Philosophy and Science, whereas the advanced party positively wanted to give their daughters and sisters what is generally regarded as high education. They did not object to their university education and were not disposed to make much difference in point of education between men and women. There was no hope of compromise between two such extreme schools of thought, Accordingly, the radical party proceeded to start a separate female school of their own, called the Hindu Mahila Vidyalaya for the education of the adult young ladies belonging to their party. The successful manner in which they carried on the work of this school under Miss Akroyd, subsequently Mrs. Beveridge, attracted much public notice and was highly praised by the officers of Government. This school did excellent work for many years and was subsequently conducted under the name of the Banga Mahila Vidyalaya and was at last amalgamated with the Bethune College for ladies, to which it furnished some of its most distinguished students."[5]

Translation

Annette Beveridge translated the diaries of the first Mughal Emperor Babur, the Baburnama, publishing it in four books from 1912 to 1922. She used both Persian and Turki sources.[6][7]

She also translated the biography of the second Mughal Emperor, Humayun, from Persian into English. The memoir had been written by his sister Gulbadan Begum, whom Beveridge affectionately called "Princess Rosebud".[8][9] Her other translated works include The key of the hearts of beginners, 1908.

Marriage and children

She married Henry Beveridge of the Indian Civil Service.[10]

The couple had two children: a daughter, Annette Jeanie Beveridge (d. 1956), who married R. H. Tawney,[11] and a son, William Beveridge (1879–1963), a noted economist who gave his name to the report associated with the foundation of the welfare state.[12]

The Beveridges lived at Pitfold, Shottermill, Surrey, England.[12]

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References
  1. Begam Gulbadam; Annette S. Beveridge. The history of Humayun = Humayun-nama. Begam Gulbadam. pp. 249–. GGKEY:NDSD0TGDPA1.
  2. "Beveridge [née Akroyd], Annette Susannah". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53954. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. Kopf, David (1979). The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind. Atlantic Publishers & Distributors. pp. 34–41. ISBN 978-0-691-03125-5.
  4. David Kopf pg. 34-40
  5. "History of the Brahmo Samaj" Sastri:1911:p.258
  6. Babur (1922). Beveridge, Annette Susannah (ed.). The Babur-nama in English (Memoirs of Babur) - Volume I. London: Luzac and Co. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  7. Babur (1922). Beveridge, Annette Susannah (ed.). The Babur-nama in English (Memoirs of Babur) - Volume II. London: Luzac and Co. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  8. Beveridge, Annette Susannah (1898). Life and writings of Gulbadan Begam (Lady Rosebody). Calcutta. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  9. Begam, Gulbaden (1902). Beveridge, Annette Susannah (ed.). The history of Humāyūn (Humāyūn-nāma). London: Royal Asiatic Society. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  10. Margaret MacMillan (2007). Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of the Bristish Empire in India. Random House Trade Paperbacks. pp. 245–. ISBN 978-0-8129-7639-7.
  11. Chapter 2 "Courtship and marriage", of The Life of R. H. Tawney: Socialism and History By Lawrence Goldman
  12. "Henry Beveridge Genealogy". Retrieved 6 November 2010.
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