About the Book: Crossing Paths in America and India: Memories Essays Reviews
A memoir of learning, involvements, and teaching…
Leonard Gordon tracks his connection to India beginning in the 1960s as he
became an outsider/ insider in its society visiting often over six decades. His
entry into the study of nationalism and imperialism was rooted in his coming of
age in a left-wing family in New York and his familys friendship with a pioneer
of South Asians in the U.S., Kumar Goshal.In India he formed friendships with
many notables depicted vividly here including P. Lal, Jamini Roy, Sunil Das,
Satyajit Ray, Nikhil Chakravartty, Nirad C. Chaudhuri,