An off-colour question, very often, ripples through the sensitive reader and the humble writer feels lost in a barrage of lofty questions: why this book? Why has he taken in the conservative radicals of Bengal? The response is not long in coming. Despite diffusion of a lot of literature on social and political thinking of India most masterminds of Bengal have been looked down upon by academics on both sides of the globe, more often with a sense of rejection than ...
