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Irish Days, Indian Memories. Conor Mulvagh
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Автор произведения Conor Mulvagh
Издательство Ingram
On top of her Indian sympathies, Mrs Dryhurst was involved in the early days of Bean na hÉireann, thus providing another tangible link between the paper and the case of Dhingra. The Dhingra case sent a clear signal, especially to Indians in London, that Irish advanced nationalists, especially or even exclusively suffragists at this point, found common cause in the plights of Ireland and India. In the case of Dryhurst, these activists were even willing to work outside the law in offering practical assistance to Indian political activists. In a history in which so few concrete links can be established, the case of Irish nationalist-feminists and their solidarity with Madan Lal Dhingra provides the most likely avenue of approach between Irish and Indian activists in London at a time when Britain was becoming a cold house for incoming Indian students. It would seem this type of connection may well have played a role in the decision of Indian law students to travel to Ireland to undertake their studies four years later in 1913.
The other strong Indo-Irish connection at around this time centred on Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet who came to the attention of W. B. Yeats in 1912. Yeats was captivated by Tagore’s writings which he read in translation ‘in railway trains, or on the top of omnibuses and in restaurants, and I have often had to close [the manuscript] lest some stranger would see how much it moved me’.11 Yeats championed Tagore, writing a laudatory introduction to his collection of poems published by the India Society in London in the autumn of 1912. In his exploration of the Yeats–Tagore relationship, Malcolm Sen records that Tagore’s collection was reprinted a dozen times within a year. Yeats’ introduction, notes Sen, is ‘exemplary of western conceptions of the Orient’.12 Arguably what Yeats found in Tagore’s writings was an apparent spiritual simplicity reminiscent of what he had ‘discovered’ in the west of Ireland years previously. In any case, Yeats’ patronage was instrumental to Tagore being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, a full decade before Yeats himself was bestowed with the same honour. Given the international prominence which the award gave to Tagore in 1913, this is just one other possible reason why Ireland may have sparked the interest of prospective law students either at home or lingering in London and contemplating their choices of institution. In a concluding note on Tagore and Ireland, in 2011, a bust of the poet was presented to the Irish government by the government of India and was put on display in Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green.13 Perhaps appropriately, the site chosen for the bust is directly across the road from the original premises of UCD where Giri and his Indian classmates would have studied almost a century beforehand.
Chapter 3
Indian Law Students Arrive in Ireland
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