Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ix
A Note on the Spelling of Sanskrit Words xi
Preface xiii
Part 1
1 Dhaka and Mandalay 3
2 The Rivers of Bengal 19
3 School Without Walls 35
4 The Company of Grandparents 57
5 A World of Arguments 79
6 The Presence of the Past 93
Part 2
7 The Last Famine 113
8 Bengal and the Idea of Bangladesh 122
9 Resistance and Division 138
10 Britain and India 155
Part 3
11 The Urbanity of Calcutta 173
12 College Street 190
13 What to Make of Marx 207
14 An Early Battle 223
15 To England 239
Part 4
16 The Gates of Trinity 255
17 Friends and Circles 264
18 What Economics? 282
19 Where is Europe? 295
20 Conversation and Politics 308
21 Between Cambridge and Calcutta 326
22 Dobb, Sraffa and Robertson 342
23 American Encounters 357
24 Cambridge Re-examined 368
Part 5
25 Persuasion and Cooperation 383
26 Near and Far 395
Notes 409
Name Index 426
Subject Index 443