Author Description

An extraordinary work of scholarship about the Viceroys of India by an Indian who lived through the British Raj. Thoroughly and meticulously researched in the days before the Internet, the author won the acclaim and commendation from Buckingham Palace, Lady Patricia Knatchbull, the elder daughter of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Jan Morris, the eminent Welsh historian, and Debrett's among others. Published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of India's Independence, the author's unique slant on the history of the Viceroys offers amusement, dry wit and an acute eye that could only come from an Indian wryly observing the British in rule. Published as an original manuscript owing to the great complexity of the formatting and exacting attention to detail.