Jagadish Chandra wrote to Rabindranath from London that he had sent a book namely John Chinaman and asked him to read the book.He also remarked, "we are painting ourselves with European dust keeping aside our gold." Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, professor of King's College of Cambridge and London School of Economics was a Rhodes Scholar. He while moving in China wrote this book and published it in the name of a Chinese knowing English.
Rabinranath read this book without knowing the writer of the book and wrote a summary of the book thinking that he was Chinese.Before one year Rabindranath wrote two essays, Difference of Society and Mother land, which were published in Bangadarshan. In the essays he narrated the opressions done in China by the European Imperiolists. Moreover he became acquianted with the Japanese great man Kakujo Okakura who wrote the book "Asia is one". Rabindranath came to understand the heritage of the country and the relation between China and India. It should be mentioned here that Surendranath Thakur in an eassay East and West, published in Bharati, expressed the similar ideas.
In 1912, when Rabindranath went to England he stayed for two days in the house of Dickinson and well acquianted with him.
In 1913 Dickinson visited Jorasanko and Shantiniketan.
