Womesh chandra bonnerjee biography of william shakespeare
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Dadabhai Naoroji interacted with people from all walks of life: his fellow Parsis and Indians, British politicians, economic thinkers, and writers—but also ordinary British laborers, Indian students in Great Britain, British feminists, American and European anti-colonialists, and colonial subjects from around the world. Below are profiles of just a few individuals who played a prominent role in his life and career.
Bhownaggree, Mancherji (1851-1933): Conservative MP for Bethnal Green between 1895 and 1906 and the second-ever Indian (and Parsi) elected to the British Parliament. Bhownaggree served as the Bombay-based agent for the ruling thakur of Bhavnagar before relocating to London, where he assisted Naoroji in his Central Finsbury campaign. He subsequently found Naoroji too politically radical for his tastes and—with assistance from George Birdwood and Lord Harris, the governor of Bombay—launched his successful campaign in Bethnal Green, aiming to become a Conservative “Member for India.” As an MP, Bhownaggree was reviled by Indian nationalists as an Anglo-Indian stooge, although he did provide critical assistance to Mohandas K. Gandhi in South African affairs.
Birdwood, George (1832-1917): India Office official, scholar of Indian art and history, and a staunch Co
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On the trail of an Auden and a Spender in India: They were not poets, they wanted to scale mountains
Long years before Jawaharlal Nehru pronounced himself as the “last Englishman to rule India,” the nation had ceased to remember the small ministers of colonial maladministration who lived in India. One hardly remembers, for instance, William Makepeace Thackeray – the grandfather of the more famous William Makepeace Thackeray, the novelist – who became infamous in the eighteenth-century as the “elephant hunter of Sylhet”, retiring to London as a wealthy nabob at the age of twenty-seven.
A somewhat less notorious example – and even lesser known – is that of John Talbot Shakespear, a descendant of William Shakespeare, who lived in India in the early nineteenth century, and whose tombstone lies at the Park Street Cemetery in Kolkata, unsung and uncelebrated. Deborah Baker’s The Last Englishmen: Love, War and the End of Empire, although not being about these characters, runs hot on the heels of the Englishmen who lived in India during the last two decades of the British Empire on the subcontinent, but have fast-faded since then from the shared colonial memory of India and Britain.
Brothers of famous poets
The saga begins with Louis MacNeice, the Irish poet and playwright,
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