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The author is president emeritus at Asia Society, New York. In 1938, he was awarded a scholarship to learn about India. He came here and started writing for the Chicago Daily and covered India until 1950. In 2002, he was awarded the Padma Shree. This is his account, mostly in the form of dispatches, of those 12 years. The despatches cover student life at Aligarh, life in a Vedic ashram in Lahore, Muslim society in Kashmir, life in Shantiniketan, Sevagram, Noakhali (where he walked with Gandhiji), Congress and Muslim League sessions, their negotiations with Mountbatten, and so on.

For those looking for something new about this already well researched period, there is nothing much. Nevertheless, the volume can serve as handy reference volume for those looking for an American perspective on the times.

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AN AMERICAN WITNESS TO INDIA'S PARTITION

Phillips Talbots
Rs 720
440 PAGES
Sage