Sarath Kumar Ghosh

Submitted by obl7 on
Other names

Sarath Kumar Ghose

Prince Sarath Ghosh

1
Date of birth
Precise DOB unknown
Y
Location

Cambridge

2
About

Sarath Kumar Ghosh was a writer and novelist who had been educated in Cambridge. He was the nephew of the Raja of 'Ghoshpara' according to publicity put out by his American publishers, J. B. Pond Lyceum Bureau.

3
Published works

1001 Indian Nights (London: Heinemann, 1904)

The Prince of Destiny: The New Krishna (London: Rebman, 1909)

The Verdict of the Gods (New York: Dodd Mead, 1905)

The Wonders of the Jungle (New York: D. C. Heath, 1915)

Contributions to periodicals

Cornhill Magazine

'The Romance of the Kohinoor', Harper's Magazine (March 1902)

'A Thousand Years After', Harper's Magazine (July 1903)

'The Chohan Bride', Harper's Magazine (April 1901)


Reviews

The Manchester Guardian (17 November 1909)

The New York Times

Secondary works

Mukherjee, Meenakshi, The Perishable Empire: Essays on Indian Writing in English (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000)

Tickell, Alex, 'Writing the Nation's Destiny: Indian Fiction in English before 1910', Third World Quarterly, 26.3 (2005), pp. 525-541

4
Example

Publisher's Preface to Prince of Destiny (1909)

Extract

When the author of this romance finished his education in Great Britain and began his literary career, his style and action were so pure as to cause an eminent English critic to say that many distinguished English novelists might well envy him his command of English prose. Nay a leading London review averred, 'We cannot be persuaded to believe that Sarath Kumar Ghosh is anything but an Englishman in masquerade'. In view of that the publishers of this romance deemed it expedient to present the author's portrait in the British edition in a dress representative of India, in order to convince readers that he is truly Indian.

Archive source

Correspondence regarding Ghosh's offer to write the official book on the Prince of Wales' tour of India, 1902-1903, L/PJ/6/610, Asian and African Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras