Daddyji is at first glance a biographical portrait of Amolak Ram Mehta a distinguished Indian public-health officer written by his son Ved Mehta but in reality as the story unfolds it is seen to be a recreation in crystalline detail of a whole world―the everyday life of pre-Partition Lahore. Daddyji (1972) is the first book in Mehta’s extraordinary series of memoirs Continents of Exile.