by Francis Watson
Twenty-six letters from Rabindranath Tagore to Sir William Rothenstein have been published in the Journal of the Royal Society for India. Pakistan, and Ceylon at the same time as the Rothenstein Collection of Indian paintings has been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum's Indian Section. This talk considers the effects of Tagore's fricnd,hip with Rothenstein on the development of Indian nationhood and on the relations between India and Britain.