A study of William Hailey's career in the Indian civil Service and as an African expert.

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; Bibliography.