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.

Yuan wrote that "Moon was a sober observer of the British dominion in India. He thought it had done some good and some bad things, and that its eventual demise was long overdue." Yuan continued that after being "dismissed by the British government for being too sympathetic toward Indian nationalists" Moon "later spent 14 years holding important positions within the government of independent India at the invitation of its new rulers." Yuan described Moon's magnum opus as The British Conquest and Dominion of India (1989). 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)