London and Paris: Through Indian Spectacles

London and Paris through Indian Spectacles was first published by Vaijayanthi Press, Chennai in 1897. An edition edited by GP’s son G P Sekhar was published in the 1930s. The present reprint is based on this later edition. London and Paris Through Indian Spectacles (1897) by G Parmeswaran Pillai is the third title in the series of reprints of rare or out of print Indian English books published by the Sahitya Akademi. The series was mooted by the English Advisory Board (1998-2003) of the Akademi. The Project was inspired by the idea to make available such Indian English books of value as are not only out of print today but are hard to acquire or have been forgotten. These books may or may not be of great literary or historic importance but their study, for a varietyof reasons, is likely not just to be desirable, but also crucial to the understanding of recent Indian literary and cultural history.