Penderel Moon
Sir Edward Penderel Moon,OBE (1905–1987) was a British administrator in India and a writer. He served as a finance minister for theBahawalpur Statein the British Raj. AfterIndia's independence,he stayed on in India and worked as the chief commissioner ofHimachal Pradesh,as chief commissioner ofManipurstate.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Moon was born 13 November 1905 inMayfair, Londonto a cardiologist,Robert Oswald Moonwho wrote aboutphilosophyandGreek medicineas well as diseases of the heart. Dr Moon also stood several times as a Liberal candidate for parliament.[1]He followed in his father's footsteps, first toWinchester College,then toNew College, Oxford.In 1927, he was elected a prize fellow ofAll Souls College, Oxford.He joined theIndian Civil Servicein 1929, being posted to the Punjab.
He wrote several books onBritish rule in IndiaincludingDivide and Quit.[2][3]
Works
[edit]- Strangers in India(1944)[4]
- The Future of India(1945)
- Warren Hastings and British India(1947)
- Divide and Quit(1961)[5]
- Gandhi and Modern India(1968)[6]
- Wavell: The Viceroy's Journal(editor, 1973)
- The British Conquest and Dominion of India: 1858-1947(1989)[7]
References
[edit]- ^abMason, Philip. "Moon, Sir (Edward) Penderel (1905–1987), administrator in India and writer."Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.23 Sep. 2004.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39897.
- ^"Sir Edward Penderel Moon (1932)".The Friday Times.22 November 2013.
- ^"'Moon' reappears ".The Statesman.27 November 2016. Archived fromthe originalon 29 November 2016.
- ^Mills, Lennox A. (18 December 1945)."Strangers in India. By Penderel Moon. (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock. 1945. Pp. vii, 184. $2.00.)".American Political Science Review.39(6): 1229–1230.doi:10.2307/1949690.JSTOR1949690.
- ^"Book Reviews: Divide and Quit. Penderel Moon (and others)".International Relations.2(5): 345–347. 18 April 1962.doi:10.1177/004711786200200527.
- ^Brown, Judith M. (18 September 1970)."Gandhi and Modern India. By Penderel Moon (Review)".The Historical Journal.13(3): 566–568.doi:10.1017/S0018246X00009390.
- ^Zinkin, Maurice (18 November 1989)."Book Reviews: The British Conquest and Dominion of India by Sir Penderel Moon. London: Duckworth, 1989 1235 pp. £60".International Relations.9(6): 555–557.doi:10.1177/004711788900900607.
Further reading
[edit]- Zachariah, Benjamin (2001), "Rewriting imperial mythologies: The strange case of Penderel Moon",South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies,24(2): 53–72,doi:10.1080/00856400108723450
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