Penderel Moon
# 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 the Bahawalpur State in the British Raj. After India's independence, he stayed on in India and worked as the chief commissioner of Himachal Pradesh, as chief commissioner of Manipur state.

## Life and career

Moon was born 13 November 1905 in Mayfair, London to a cardiologist, Robert Oswald Moon who wrote about philosophy and Greek medicine as well as diseases of the heart. Dr Moon also stood several times as a Liberal candidate for parliament. He followed in his father's footsteps, first to Winchester College, then to New College, Oxford. In 1927, he was elected a prize fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1929, being posted to the Punjab.

He wrote several books on British rule in India including Divide and Quit.

## Works

* Strangers in India (1944)
* The Future of India (1945)
* Warren Hastings and British India (1947)
* Divide and Quit (1961)
* Gandhi and Modern India (1968)
* Wavell: The Viceroy's Journal (editor, 1973)
* The British Conquest and Dominion of India: 1858-1947 (1989)
