About this website

I am not Richard Bornat or Dick Toms.

They were, respectively, my Uncle and Great Uncle.

Dick wrote and published "Another's Harvest" in Bengal in 1943, and Richard re-published it on the Internet in 2006.

Like Richard, I had not been aware of Dick's book on India, but I did read it when he did the hard work of rescuing it from a poor photocopy, laying it out properly with LaTex and publishing it as a PDF file.

Like him I was struck by the subject, a first-hand account of Bengal three years after the terrible famine, and towards the end of "British India."

When Richard died on 8th January 2006, I was reminded of my intention of putting "Another's Harvest" onto a website. The work of creating this website is trivial compared to what Richard did in rescuing the work from poor photocopies.