Philosopher Basanta Kumar Mallik (1879–1958), MA Philosophy (Calcutta University), worked as tutor and administrator in Nepal and did further studies in law and anthropology at Oxford, where he also wrote a philosophical thesis on Freedom. When he finally returned to Oxford he lectured through the war years and wrote several philosophical books including The Real & the Negative (London: George Allen & Unwin 1940), Related Multiplicity (Oxford: Hall the Publisher, 1952), Non Absolutes (London: Vincent Stuart, 1956) and Mythology & Possibility (London: Vincent Stuart, 1960). Other works include The Individual and the Group (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1939) and The Towering Wave (Vincent Stuart Publishers, 1953, republished by D.K. Printworld, 2014).