Memoirs: 1877-1921

These memoirs by Dr. Sumant Mehta cover the first decades of his life from 1877 to 1921. Toward the end of the Victorian age, at the age of twenty-one he went to the Manchester Medical School in England and returned five years later as a surgeon to his home city of Baroda. It was the most important period in British Indian history during which those who were imbued by the liberal polity in Britain became the first line of opposition to the pervasive colonial rule. For two decades he was ass...