Across time and Continents

This volume is to honour Victor Kiernan, one of the most distinguished Marxist historians alive-a member, along with Eric Hobsbawn, of the famous British Communist Party Historians’ Group of the 1940s, consisting of E.P. Thompson, Christopher Hill, Rodney Hilton, George Rude, A.L. Morton and others. Kiernan, as Christopher Hill observed, ‘is one of the most versatile of British historians’, and his interests spread across time and continents. Reproduced here is a selection of Kiernan’s historical writings of India, on the Urdu poets Faiz and Iqbal, his reminiscences of his India years. The volume also contains an appreciation of the historian and the man by Eric Hobsbawn; a lengthy study of Kiernan’s work by Harvey J. Kaye; and Introduction by the Editor. Across time and Continents is a delightful introduction to an outstanding historian of the Marxist school, one of the finest writers of English prose, and a fighter for a better world.