The Village, The Town and The Metropolis

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Memoirs of a Social ScientistMihir Rakshit The book relates to author's memoirs, his place of birth in a remote village in Chittagong, now in Bangladesh, and his places of education, first in a village then in a mufassil town and then in two cities, Calcutta and metropolitan London.The author remembers with great pleasure the imposing building of Serampore College, facing the Ganges with the greenery of the Barrackpore cantonment from where the first shot was fired in India's First War of Independence in 1857.In particular the author dwells at length on two triumvirates of the arts faculty, one in the economics department and the other across English, history and economics.Three years the author spent at London School of Economics (LSE) had the greatest impact on his life in terms of knowledge and worldview.The author was happy to discover that Julius Caesar was also an author and added to his collection Caesar's two books, The Civil War and The Conquest of Gaulle.This book contains his memoirs which in a sense is the narrative of the twentieth Century background of the epoch-making institutions where he studied and taught economics. Publication Anustup [] Find more information below