Fascinating new starting points and avenues for investigating the emergence of a cosmopolitan club of anticolonial intellectuals.

H-Soz-Kult

This global history of M.N. Roy and many of his allies (as well as critics) offers an exciting angle into the internationalism of Indian anti-colonial revolutionaries by offering an analysis of “smooth, distinguished cosmopolitanism,” exemplified by culinary and sartorial choices, clandestine spaces, and sensual pleasures of exiles and itinerants.

Neilesh Bose, Associate Professor of History and Canada Research Chair, University of Victoria, Canada

This is a thoroughly fascinating book. It challenges fundamental assumptions of what makes a cosmopolitan person while being a new model of intellectual history. By looking at M. N. Roy's border crossing, global thinking, and subversive practices, Leonie Wolters offers original insights into intellectual globalization – and how one individual served an ideology that claimed universal meaning.

Jeremy Adelman, Director Global History Lab, University of Cambridge, UK