Ramanujan was persuaded by Hardy to return to India with the hope
that he would recover soon and return to take up the Trinity College
Fellowship awarded to him for five years.
After
completing nearly five years at Cambridge, early in 1919, when
Ramanujan appeared to have recovered sufficiently to withstand
the rigours of a long voyage to India, he left England on 27th
February 1919 by S.S. Nagoya. Four weeks later on 27th March he
arrived at Bombay and soon after at Madras, thin, pale and emaciated,
but with a scientific standing and reputation such as no Indian
enjoyed ever before.
