Percival Spear

Career

In 1943 he became deputy secretary to the government of India in the department of information and broadcasting. He also served for a time in 1944 as government whip in the Federal Assembly, the precursor to independent India"s Parliament. He was awarded the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1946.

Achievements

• An accomplished historian of modern Indian social history, he taught at both Cambridge University and Saint Stephen"s College with great distinction.