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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the internationally acclaimed poet and one of the greatest literary figures of our times, was a prolific writer of short stories. The collection presented in this volume are some of his most well known. Translated into English by his close associates and admirers like C.F. Andrews, E.V. Thompson, Pannalall Basu, Prabhat Kumar Mukherji and Sister Nivedita, they represent both the letter and the spirit of Tagore's original Bengali ...
A realistic analysis of Hinduism and Indian Way of life rebuting Miss Mayo's charge.
Set against the backdrop of the mutiny of 1857, Charles Freer Andrews (c. 1871-1940) draws upon the story of Zaka Ullah’s life to briefly trace the cultural history of Delhi from the decline of the Mughal Empire to the emerging nationalist movement in the latter half of the nineteenth century. A teacher at the Delhi, College, and one of the most distinguished scholars of his day, Munshi Zaka Ullah (1832-1911) belonged to that small fraction who, at a time when ...