A Difficult Friendship: Letters of Edward Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore 1913 - 1940

This volume throws new light on the personality traits of two eminent individuals - Edward Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore, documenting the remarkable relationship between them in most welcome detail. The letters they wrote to each other contain much value and interest about contemporary British-Indian cultural and political history, and highlight various twists and turns in the East-West cultural relations.