Introduction by Colin Palmer
PART 1: THE STUDENT
1. Portrait of a Colonial Society: Trinidad in 1911
2. Life with Father
3. Education of a Young Colonial
4. At Oxford
PART 2: THE TEACHER
5. ‘Negro Oxford’
6. West Indian Travel
7. Research in West Indian History
8. West Indian and American Affairs
9. The Anglo-American Caribbean Commission
10. The Indian University
11. Colonial Problems
PART 3: THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVANT
12. The Caribbean Commission
13. Intellectual Pursuits
14. The Nationalist Backlash
15. Colonialism! There’s the Enemy
PART 4: THE PRIME MINISTER
(a) The First Mandate
16. I Cast Down My Bucket
17. Adviser to the Workers
18. The Birth of the P.N.M.
19. The 1956 General Election
20. Constitution Reform
21. Federation
22. Chaguaramas
(i) The Federal Capital Site
(ii) The London Conference
(iii) The Chaguaramas Joint Commission
(iv) The 1941 Agreement
(v) The Legal Aspect of the Agreement
(vi) The Public Campaign
(vii) April 22, 1960
(viii) The Tobago Conference
23. Member of the Legislative Council
24. The Party Organisation
25. Intellectual Pursuits
(b) The Second Mandate
26. The 1961 General Election
27. Independence
28. External Affairs
29. Direct Democracy
30. Member of Parliament
31. The Party in the Era of Independence
32. Intellectual Pursuits
(c) The Third Mandate
33. The 1966 General Election
34. The Reality of Independence
Index