The commonality among these foreign writers was that all of them authored influential books and critical commentaries on Indian society, economic distress, and colonial politics during the British Raj. Catherine Mayo wrote the controversial 'Mother India' (1927); Aldous Huxley penned observations on India in 'Jesting Pilate' (1926); Deenabandhu C.F. Andrews wrote extensively championing Indian nationalism and labor rights; and William Digby documented Britain's economic exploitation of India in his landmark work 'Prosperous British India' (1901).