India Old And New

Deprecatory comments in Chirol’s book, Indian Unrest, resulted in a civil suit being brought against him in London by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, in the Indian independence movement. Although Tilak ultimately lost the suit, Chirol ended up spending almost two years in India on account of it, missing the bulk of WorldWar l. Chirol died in London in 1929 and was missed by many