TY - BOOK AU - Hidayatullah, M TI - My own Boswell / SN - 9788175342606 U1 - 923.4 PY - 1981/// CY - Gurgaon PB - LexisNexis Publications, KW - Judges-India-Biography KW - Vice-Presidents-India-Biography N1 - CONTENTS Preface 1. My Ancestors 2. My Parents 3. I Go to School 4. Morris College Nagpur (1922-1926) 5. London (1926-1927) 6. Trinity College Cambridge (1927-1930) 7. Cultural Advancement 8. Holidays 9. I Join the Bar 10. The Judicial Commissioner's Court 11. The Bar at Nagpur 12. Law Lecturership (1934-1942) 13. I Gain More Experience 14. Government Pleader 15. Advocate General (1943-1946) 16. Difficult Times Ahead 17. High Court Judge Nagpur (1946-1954) 18. Chief Justice Nagpur High Court (1954-56) 19. Reorganisation of Madhya Pradesh (1956) 20. To Jabalpur (1st November 1956) 21. Work Ahead (1957) 22. Promotion Ahead (1958) 23. To The Supreme Court (Nov. 1958) 24. The Supreme Court (December 1958) 25. Years of Worry and Sorrow (1959, 1960) 26. Judge, Supreme Court (1958-1968) 27. Chief Justice of India (25 Feb. 1968) 28. A Great Man Dies (3 May 1968) 29. I Become Acting President of India 30. Thirty Five Days (20 July 1969/24 Aug. 1969) 31. Nixon Arrives 32. Chief Justice of India (1968-1970) 33. After Retirement 34. The Sending Appendices Index S N2 - This book grips interest from the beginning to the end. It is a model of writing, moderate but courageous, wide but pithy, instructive but never dull and above all fully human and natural ER -