Moon was born 13 November 1905 in
Mayfair, London to a cardiologist,
Robert Oswald Moon who wrote about
philosophy and
Greek medicine as well as diseases of the heart. Dr Moon also stood several times as a Liberal candidate for parliament. Yuan wrote that "Moon was a sober observer of the British dominion in India. He thought it had done some good and some bad things, and that its eventual demise was long overdue." Yuan continued that after being "dismissed by the British government for being too sympathetic toward Indian nationalists" Moon "later spent 14 years holding important positions within the government of independent India at the invitation of its new rulers." Yuan described Moon's magnum opus as
The British Conquest and Dominion of India (1989). In a 2023 book review of David Veveer's book,
The Great Defiance: How the World Took On the British Empire, Yuan criticised Veveer's depiction of Moon alongside "all the British villains in Veevers’ account". Yuan described Moon as "a mild-mannered colonial civil servant and historian", and states that Veveer condemned "Moon for committing “a gross erasure of the people of India from his story”, relying on a quotation which does not reflect what Moon actually wrote." ==Works==