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Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Sir John Hall: M.D., K. C. B., F. R. C. S
When that well-known anglo-indian authority, Sir George Birdwood, introduced Mr. Mitra, in his Preface to the latter's Indian Problems,* to the British public as a distinguished scholar and a fair-minded and well-balanced writer, perhaps even he did not think that after a brief stay of six years in this country his Hindu friend would gain such an insight into European politics, and command such public confidence, as to rescue the memory of a Crimean veteran from oblivion after the lapse of half a century - no ordinary task even for a British-born author with all the advantages of hereditary Occidental culture and associations. For a Hindu, to whom our very language is a foreign element - to say nothing of our Western history and traditions - the under taking would appear stupendous, if not impossible. But Mr. Mitra has surmounted every Obstacle, and may now enjoy the proud distinction of being the first Hindu biographer of a distinguished.
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