Sir Jeremy Raisman wore several hats in one lifetime - a successful civil servant followed by an equally distinguished corporate career, yet his towering achievements as a statesman for India's cause during the war years of 1939-45 remain unsung. His contributions that dwarfed, by any criterion, those of his predecessors in office are, however, conspicuously ignored by Indian and British historians of the Raj. But it is for his intuitive understanding of India and its economic and political fundamentals, that Sir Jeremy will remain the ideal last Viceroy India never had.
