Alien Homage: Edward Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore - Hardcover

Thompson, E. P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195630114 ISBN 13: 9780195630114

Publisher: OUP India, 1993

Synopsis

Edward (E.J.) Thompson first met Rabindranath Tagore on the day the poet learned he had won the Nobel Prize in 1913, and became closely involved with him and his circle during the preparation of "Rabindranath Tagore: Poet and Dramatist", the first major English-language study of his writings. Drawing on his father's letters and journals, eminent historian E.P. Thompson not only traces their stormy friendship, but also offers fresh insights into Anglo-Indian relations in the first quarter of this century.

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Review

Dr Thompson has written a surprisingly detached and objective study in Alien Homage. The correspondence he had recently unearthed does provide a highly interesting picture of what he inelegantly calls the "interface" between Bengali and British cultures, especially before and after the last turn of the century. (Times Literary Supplement)

It is the great achievement of E.P. Thompson's book that it so credibly contest that too predictable model. Thompson pere in fact emerges from `Alien Homage' as a highly complex figure, ... a deeply challenging intervention in current debates about the nature of colonial literary cultures. (R.J. Dingley. University of New England, New South Wales. Notes and Queries)

About the Author

The late E.P. Thompson was an eminent British historian; author of The Making of the English Working Classes and Customs in Common

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP India
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195630114
• ISBN 13: 9780195630114
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 185