Francis Robinson's academic romance with the subcontinent began when he was doing research for his doctoral thesis at Trinity College Cambridge. He has often reminded me that we were contemporaries—or near contemporaries—at Cambridge, but I do not remember having met him then. I do recall that his supervisor was my friend, the historian Anil Seal, who was a fellow of Trinity College.

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致弗朗西斯·罗宾逊

弗朗西斯·罗宾逊与次大陆的学术恋情始于他在剑桥三一学院为博士论文做研究时。他经常提醒我，我们在剑桥是同时代的人，或者接近同一代人，但我不记得当时见过他。我确实记得他的导师是我的朋友、历史学家阿尼尔·希尔（Anil Seal），他是三一学院的研究员。