Preface
1. Early life
2. Colonisation officer, 1901-6
3. From Sargodha to Delhi, 1907-12
4. Chief commissioner of Delhi, 1912-18
5. A report on the Punjab
6. Finance member, 1919-22
7. Home member, 1922-4
8. Governor of the Punjab: the Sikhs, 1924-5
9. Governor of the Punjab: the communal problem, 1924-6
10. Governor of the Punjab: the communal problem, 1927-8
11. Governor of UP, 1928-30
12. Governor of UP: civil disobedience and round table conference, 1930-31
13. Governor of UP: year of crisis
14. Governor of UP: winding down 1932-4
15. Surveyor of Africa, 1935-9
16. Two missions to Africa, 1939-40
17. A report and a vision, 1941-2
18. Adviser and propagandist, 1942-5
19. Indian partition and the onset of African decolonisation, 1945-9
20. Defender of the faith, 1949-69
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