ABSTRACT
Khizr inherited the paternalistic outlook and trappings of power associated with a feudal chief. His army service strengthened devotion to the Crown. For two decades he lived the conventional existence of a large Punjabi landowner. In 1937, however he received instantaneous promotion to Ministerial rank in the Unionist Government of Sikander Hayat Khan. Within five years he had assumed leadership of the Unionist Party and Government. What kind of party did he inherit? How did its values and outlook fit with those which he had acquired at Aitchison and Kalra?
