Volume 21 - Issue 01, January 03 - 16, 2004
BOOKS
Re-introducing Kiernan
PARVATHI MENON
Across Time and Continents: A Tribute to Victor G. Kiernan, edited by Prakash Karat; LeftWord Books, New Delhi, 2003; pages 255, price Rs.450.
SOCIAL science scholarship on India will doubtless be enriched by Leftword Books' year-end offering: a splendid collection of essays on India by Victor G. Kiernan, the British Marxist historian and literary critic. Kiernan who in the words of his friend and admirer Eric Hobsbawm has "no parallel amongst twentieth-century historians", has nurtured a special attachment for the subcontinent over the decades, having spent several years in Lahore as a teacher in the 1940s, developing Indian friendships, and writing with insight and erudition on issues that ranged from India's encounter with colonialism to Urdu poetry.
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