Witness to Free India : 4-Volume Memoirs of Governor, Vol. I. Springs of Travancore

Contents: Prologue. I. Down the memory lanes -- a rambling recollection: 1. Down the memory lanes. 2. Passage to college and ripples of Freedom Movement. 3. From Travancore to Cochin: Budding political activism. 4. Loyola College Madras. II. From Travancore to India -- The broadening canvas: 5. The broadening universe of North India. 6. Lucknow University and constitution-making New Delhi. 7. Plunge into social work: the awakening Kerala. 8. Professional beginnings. 9. Towards Vinobaji\'s Bhoodan Movement. 10. The promising days of Nehruji\'s Bharat Sevak Samaj. 11. BSS II -- The Kerala scene. 12. My early political ideas and party affiliations. III. Seeking the wider world: 13. Moscow -- exposure to World Youth Movement. 14. From Moscow to Peking. 15. Through the People\'s Republic of China. 16. Through Vietnam. 17. China Again. 18. From Peking to Hong Kong. IV. Encounter with the US and the West: 19. BSS III -- The Kerala Phase 1958-1963. 20. Passages to the United States. 21. My looming future -- between US and India. 22. Travancore Springs the Last Phase 1967-1981. 23. Epilogue.

"What emerges here refreshingly anew is the Christian universe of Central Kerala, its heritage and values in quest of Kerala\'s and India\'s future. From that vantage point is this a renewed \'Discovery of India\' verily on the footprints of Jawaharlal Nehru.

The muddied politics of Kerala, its pathological instabilities and insecurities from the beginning, all aggravated with the birth of Kerala Congress and such other communal parties and factions, also loom large from the background, all climaxing in the last chapter, Travancore Springs: The Last Phase 1967-1981."