never lost the sense of mission which he shared with his brother, and throughout his life strove to complete the task he had set himself: to emancipate India from foreign rule and win for her culture and philosophy the respect he felt it deserved. In America he associated with fellow exiles like M.N. Roy, the founder of the Communist Party of India, to whom he is said to have suggested the adoption of the pseudonym 'Manabendra'. Forbidden the more satisfying outlet of activism, he poured his feelings into his writing. Consequently, his language is magical and persuasive, and his observation of animals and their ways is accurate and unsentimental. In his work the Gond hunter and the Brahmin child are equals in their travels in the jungle, and Dhan Gopal Mukerji never (unlike Kipling) anthropomorphises the animals or draws a facile moral from them. Although he was acutely conscious of his high caste, he saw it more as a responsibility than a privilege, and neither patronised nor denigrated the so-called lower castes and communities. He was, however, less sound on the subject of women. He writes movingly of child prostitutes in America in the 1910s and 1920s, especially of their plight during the Great Depression, but he also romanticises the life of Rangini, a 'tawaif' (courtesan) encountered in Caste and Outcast. He also praises his mother's and sisters' strict asceticism, all the more so since his mother is at that time a widow, performing all the hard penances prescribed to Hindu widows of her caste. Selected works Rajani, or Songs of the Night (Elder, 1922) Laila Majnu (Elder, 1922) My Brother's Face (Dutton, 1924) The Face of Silence (Dutton, 1926) Ghond, the Hunter (Dutton, 1928), illus. Boris Artzybasheff A Son of Mother India Answers (Dutton, 1928) The Chief of the Herd (Dutton, 1929), illus. Mahlon Blaine Devotional Passages from the Hindu Bible (Dutton, 1929) Hindu Fables for Little Children (Dutton, 1929), illus. Kurt Wiese Visit India With Me (Dutton, 1929) Disillusioned India (Dutton, 1930) Rama: The Hero of India (Dutton, 1930), illus. Edgar Parin D'Aulaire The Song of God: Translation of the Bhagavad-Gita (Dutton, 1931) The Master Monkey (Dutton, 1932), illus. Florence Weber Fierce-face, the Story of a Tiger (Dutton, 1936), illus. Dorothy P. Lathrop References External links Dhan Gopal Mukerji materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) 1890 births 1936 suicides 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American