AN INDIAN FOR ALL SEASONS

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A colonial intellectual
K. C. SIVARAMAKRISHNAN
The British accused him of alternating between adulation of the British and sedition .

AN INDIAN FOR ALL SEASONS - R.C. DUTT: Meenakshi Mukherjee; Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd., 11, Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi-110017. Rs. 399.
This is a comprehensive biography about one of the stalwarts in Indian history, whose beginnings were somewhat uncertain. Barely 20 years old, Romesh Chunder Dutt set out, without informing his family, on a slow boat from Calcutta to Diamond Harbour and thence to catch a steamer to London. To study and compete for the ICS, “the heaven-born service,” was the objective.




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