About the Author Percival Spear was an English historian who spent much of his life teaching modern Indian social history. He taught at both Cambridge University and St Stephen's College with great distinction. He passed away in 1982. Margaret Spear, Percival Spear's wife, came to India in 1933. In 1940 she joined the staff of the Director-General of Information in India, later to become part of the Department of Information and Broadcasting. She left India in 1944. Narayani Gupta has loved in Delhi since 1946, the year after the Spears left teh city. She taught history at Jamia Millia Islamia, and has worked on the history of Delhi
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