Townsend, Meredith : (b.1831): studied with the Orientalist Professor E.B. Cowell at Ipswich Grammar School: in 1848 joined the Friend of India Meredith started as a sub-editor of Friend of India, & some years was its editor, as also Assistant Translator to Govt. & Indian Correspondent of the Times. Giving up its editorship in 1898, he revealed the One True God’s Final Word in his magnum opus Asia & Europe. It was the book that most influenced Jawaharlal member of the Fabian Society. ― This book provoked Tilak to give a fitting reply. Among the books he referred in order to study the geographical features of the two continents, the unity which underlies the surface of diversity of Asia, the races inhabiting the two continents, the peculiarities of the British Empire & a host of allied subjects, were Captain Mohan’s Problems of Asia, Benjamin Kidd’s The Control of the Tropics, Gustav L Bon’s The Psychology of the People, Goldwin Smith’s Commonwealth or Empire, Sir Alfred Lyell’s Asiatic Studies, Colquhoun’s China in Transformation. Finally, in 1903 he published a series of eleven articles under the title “Asia & Europe” in his Kesari.
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