The book is the result of a careful study of Charan Singh's personal collection of political files coupled with a series of extensive interviews with politicians, public personalities, and the local people. This book is much more than the biography of an important politician-it is also an analysis of issues, movements, and political conflicts that marked the late pre-Independence and early post-Independence era. This book is volume I of a multi-volume work on The Politics of Northern India: 1937 to 1987.