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    Walter Bagehot

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    A great biography of a businessman, essayist, social Darwinist and journalist.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateApr 16, 2013
    ISBN9781473385382
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    Walter Bagehot
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    William Irvine

    William Irvine visited India for the first time in 1978, to rural Bihar as a volunteer worker, staying at a leprosy hospital. It was the start of a lifelong relationship. He read philosophy, his other passion, at Sussex University. He is currently an IT consultant with one of modern India’s technology behemoths.

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