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T. Ramakrishna
Writer and poet
Other names
Thottakadu Ramakrishna Pillai
Place of birth
About
A novelist, poet and travel writer, T. Ramakrishna (Pillai) came from South India. He was connected to various high-ranking British officials, who wrote the introductions to his works. Ramakrishna met Lord Tennyson, the Poet Laureate, to whom he dedicated his 1896 book of poems, Tales of Ind and Other Poems.
James Bryce, Sir Andrew H. L. Fraser, Sir M. E. Grant Duff, Lord Tennyson.
Tales of Ind and Other Poems (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896)
Padmini: An Indian Romance, introduction by Rt. Hon. James Bryce, DCL (London: S. Sonnenschein, 1903)
Early Reminiscences of T. Ramakrishna (by himself, for private circulation, 1907)
The Dive for Death: An Indian Romance (London: George Allen & Co., 1911)
Life in an Indian Village, introduction by Rt. Hon. Sir M. E. Grant Duff, GCSI (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1911)
My Visit to the West, introduction by Sir Andrew H. L. Fraser (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1915)
(rev. and ed. with J. L. Wyatt) Caldwell, Robert, A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages, 3rd edn (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1913)
Codell, Julie F., 'Reversing the Grand Tour: Guest Discourse in Indian Travel Narratives', Huntington Library Quarterly 70.1 (2007), pp. 173–89
Image credit
Possibly T. Ramakrishna (Thottakadu Ramakrishna Pillai) by Colin Campbell Ramsay, gelatin silver print, circa 1911, NPG x196011
© National Portrait Gallery, London, Creative Commons, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
