Reginald Arthur Reynolds (1905 - 16 December 1958) was a British

United Kingdom

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 left wing writer.

A Quaker, he was General Secretary of the No More War Movement

No More War Movement

The No More War Movement was a pacifist and socialist organisation in the United Kingdom.The Movement was founded in 1921 as a successor to the No-Conscription Fellowship. It became the British section of War Resisters International. Chaired by Fenner Brockway, it asked members to strive for...

 1933-1937.

He was perhaps best known as a critic of British imperialism in India

India

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, and for his 1937 work The White Sahibs in India. For many years he was also New Statesman

New Statesman

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's weekly satirical poet.

He married the left wing novelist Ethel Mannin

Ethel Mannin

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 in 1938.

He was a conscientious objector

Conscientious objector

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 during the Second World War, when he worked in Air Raid Precautions

Air Raid Precautions

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 and in a mobile hospital unit.

Works

• India, Gandhi and world peace (1931)
• Police and peasantry in India (1932)
• Gandhi's fast: its cause and significance (1932)
• The white sahibs in India (1937)
• Prison anthology / edited with A. G. Stock (1938)
• Why India? (1942)
• Cleanliness and Godliness: or The Further Metamorphosis. A discussion of the problems of sanitation raised by Sir John Harington, etc. (1943)
• The new Indian rope trick: or What became of the debt? (1943)
• The fallow ground of the heart (1945)
• Og and other ogres (1946)
• The wisdom of John Woolman: with a selection from his writings as a guide to the seekers of today (1948)
• British pamphleteers (edited with George Orwell
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  ) (1948)
• Beards: Their Social Standing, Religious Involvements, Decorative Possibilities, and Value in Offence and Defence Through the Ages (1949)
• Beards: an omnium gatherum (1950)
• Beds: with many noteworthy instances of lying on, under, or about them (1951)
• To Live in Mankind: A Quest for Gandhi (1951)
• Beware of Africans: a pilgrimage from Cairo to the Cape (1955)
• My Life and Crimes (1956)
• John Somervell Hoyland (1958)
• John Woolman and the 20th century (1958)
• The true book about Mahatma Gandhi (1959)
• The loadstone (1960)

Biography

• Robert Hunter, Reg and Ethel
• Autobiography, My life and crimes (1956)