Soon after establishing my Gul Hayat Institute at my native village Khair Muhammad Arija in 1990, I started collecting papers, documents and books of research-value. Once I purchased a few old books on history of India and book seller handed over some Clippings of Newspapers to me as to him they were useless for him. It was amazing for me to note that these Cuttings were from TIMES (Literary Supplement), THE EVENING STANDARD, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH and OBSERVER all of 1926.
OBSERVER (Sunday, January 24, 1926) Cutting was about Review on ‘India’ by F.H.Brown, C.I.E. The book written by Sir Valentine Chirol and included in “ The Modern World” (Voi.V), Edited by H.A.L. Fisher, M.P. As the British Period was my field of interest in research, hence, I started searching for more information about Sir Valentine Chirol and his work on the Indian History. It was my luck that I found Letter by Chirol written in his hand to F.H.Brown, who had reviewed his work.
Sir Valentine Chirol breathed his last on October 22, 1929 in his 78th year. He was born on May 23, 1852 in Huguenot family. He was younger son of the Rev. Alexander Chirol, by his wife Harriet, daughter of the Rev. Denny Ashburnham. His family left France after the Revolution of the Edict of Nantes.
Sir Valentine saw educated mainly in France and Germany, taking his degree at the University of Paris. He saw the march of the German Army into Paris in 1871, and the out-break of the Commune. He outstanding Journalist and born Traveler. He made several Oriental journeys, visited Eastern countries including India which he visited for the first time in 1883. He had a deep admiration for the woek of the British Raj, but also was not blind to its imperfections, especially in regard to education. He strongly showed his sympathy with native
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