About the Book

These tales are true stories about American missionaries and British colonists, who were able to inspire the people in northeastern India  with Anglo-American  educational ideals and ideas. 

This is not a history in the true sense of the term but is as authentic as an historical account. This is not a collection of biographies but is as revealing. The author has kept the historical and biographical events in tact without  in any way twisting the events or the characters of the historic personalities.

This is not a fiction but the author has  injected some fictional elements to give a better understanding of the time, the people, and the strength of the souls that he is trying to reveal. 

About the Author

Dilip K. Datta, a professor of mathematics at University of Rhode Island, is an academician with varied interests.  He is a native of Assam, in northeastern India, but his academic pursuits have taken him all over the world.

Prof. Datta is the author of the highly acclaimed Math Education At Its Best: The Potsdam Model, about which Professor Ken Ross, a former President of the Mathematical Association of America wrote to him, “Thanks for putting this book together. You’ve done us all a service.”  With the present book, Prof. Datta has done us all a service by bringing out some tales about the positive fusion of the East and the West.  He has also authored several books in the Assamese language.