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Suspended between many uncertainties and nervously awaiting a new government in a matter of days, Britain can still be proud of one prized asset — the welfare state that makes it the world’s envy. Not many know, however, that it was born — literally so — in India.
William, Lord Beveridge, its creator, was the son of Henry Beveridge of the Bengal cadre of the Indian Civil Service, a formidable historian and Persian scholar whose sympathy for Indian nationalists cost him the judgeship he hoped for. His scholarly wife, Annette Akroyd, came to India to further female education and ran a
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