Question: Anglo-Indian or Indian-born British travel writer, educator and social activist had her story loosely adapted into an American animated musical film directed by Richard Rich? 

Context articles: Richard Grant (writer)
The Scarecrow (2000 film)
Animated Stories from the Bible
Anna Leonowens
The Swan Princess
Hugh Thomson (writer)
Brian Schofield
The Fox and the Hound
Farrukh Dhondy
The King and I (1999 film)

Richard Grant (born 1963) is a freelance British travel writer based in Mississippi.
 He was born in Malaysia, lived in Kuwait as a boy and then moved to London.
 He went to school in Hammersmith and received a history degree from University College, London.
 After graduation, he worked as a security guard, a janitor, a house painter and a club DJ before moving to America where he lived a nomadic life in the American West, eventually settling in Tucson, Arizona, as a base from which to travel.
 He supported himself by writing articles for "Men's Journal", "Esquire" and "Details", among others.
 Grant and now wife, Mariah, moved to New York City briefly, before relocation to Pluto, Mississippi.
The Scarecrow is a 2000 animated musical fantasy film, written and directed by Brian Nissen and Richard Rich, and based on the Nathaniel Hawthorne short story "Feathertop" and the Percy MacKaye play "The Scarecrow".
 It features the voices of Corey Feldman and Belinda Montgomery.
Animated Stories from the Bible (also known as Animated Stories from the Old Testament) is an American animated video series produced by Nest Family Entertainment and Rich Animation Studios.
 The series was directed by former Disney director Richard Rich.
Anna Harriette Leonowens (born Anna Harriet Emma Edwards; 5 November 1831 – 19 January 1915) was an Anglo-Indian or Indian-born British travel writer, educator and social activist.
The Swan Princess is a 1994 American animated musical fantasy film based on the ballet "Swan Lake".
 Featuring the voice talents of Howard McGillin, Michelle Nicastro, Jack Palance, John Cleese, Steven Wright, Sandy Duncan, James Arrington, Joel McKinnon Miller, Mark Harelik, Brian Nissen, Steve Vinovich, and Dakin Matthews, the film is directed by a former Disney animation director, Richard Rich, with a music score by Lex de Azevedo.
 This film was originally owned by Sony Wonder.
 However, when New Line Cinema merged with Warner Bros. in March 2008, this was sold to Warner Bros. (though the home video distribution of "The Swan Princess" was kept by Sony Wonder).
 It was released theatrically on November 18, 1994, where it received mixed reviews from critics.
 The film has been followed by six direct-to-video sequels.
Hugh Thomson {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} is a British travel writer, film maker and explorer.
 His "The Green Road Into Trees: A Walk Through England" won the 2014 Wainwright Prize for nature and travel writing.
Brian Schofield is a British travel writer.
 His work has appeared in "The Sunday Times", "The Independent on Sunday", "GQ", "Arena", "Condé Nast Traveller" and the "New Statesman".
 In 2003, he won the best British Travel Writer covering North America.
 His first book, published in 2008, is called "Selling Your Father’s Bones" and follows the 1877 exodus of the Nez Perce Native American tribe through Oregon, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.
 Schofield spent three months travelling through the American Northwest in a 1983 Dodge Camper van to research the book.
The Fox and the Hound is a 1981 American animated drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions and loosely based on the novel of the same name by Daniel P. Mannix.
 The 24th Disney animated feature film, the film tells the story of two unlikely friends, a red fox named Tod and a hound dog named Copper, who struggle to preserve their friendship despite their emerging instincts and the surrounding social pressures demanding them to be adversaries.
 Directed by Ted Berman, Richard Rich, and Art Stevens, the film features the voices of Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey, Jack Albertson, Sandy Duncan, Jeanette Nolan, Pat Buttram, John Fiedler, John McIntire, Dick Bakalyan, Paul Winchell, Keith Mitchell, and Corey Feldman.
Farrukh Dhondy (born Poona, India, in 1944) is an Indian-born British writer, playwright, screenwriter and left-wing activist of Parsi descent, who resides in the United Kingdom.
 He is well known not only for his writing, but also for his film and TV work.
The King and I is a 1999 American animated musical film directed by Richard Rich and written by Peter Bakalian, Jacqueline Feather, and David Seidler, loosely adapted from the Anna Leonowens story, and uses songs and some of the character names from Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's stage musical of the same name.