"Alien Homage": Edward Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore

by E. P. Thompson

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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 (OUP 1992), 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 this stormy friendship, but also offers fresh insights into Anglo-Indian relations in the first show more quarter of this century. show less

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E.P. Thompson (1924-1993) is among the most acclaimed historians of the twentieth century. He is known for his works The Making of the English Working Class, William Morris, and the Poverty of Theory, among others. Cal Winslow is a Fellow in Environmental History in the Geography Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director show more of the Mendocino Institute, a more for profit research and educational center. He was trained at Antioch College and Warwick University where he studied under the direction of E.P. Thompson. His most recent book is Labor's Civil War in California. show less

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Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Biography & Memoir
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891.4414Literature & rhetoricLiteratures of other languagesEast Indo-European and Celtic literaturesModern Indic languagesBengaliPoetry1845–1895
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PK1725 .T3 .T46Language and LiteratureIndo-Iranian languages and literaturesIndo-Iranian philology and literatureIndo-Aryan languagesModern Indo-Aryan languagesParticular languages and dialectsBengali
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