Kissory Chand Mittra

Entrepreneur, reformist and politicker, Dwarkanath Tagore lived at an exigent time in his country's history, the so-called preparatory period of the 19 century during which the British were consolidating their colonial regime in India.

The first of its kind, Mittra's Memoir of Dwarkanath Tagore is indispensable for understanding the discourse of the 19 century colonial rule in India.