Daddyji

Book 1 in Ved Mehta's Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian family in the twentieth century. From 1930s India to 1950s Oxford and literary New York in the 1960s-80s this is the story of the post-colonial twentieth century as uniquely experienced and vividly recounted by Ved Mehta. . On its surface Daddyji serves as a lucid biographical portrait of Amolak Ram Mehta an esteemed Indian public servant written by his son. But as Ved Mehta's story unwinds it becomes apparent that something else is being recreated - the intricacies and intimacies of a lost world of pre-Partition Lahore.