My Fellowship in 1971 enabled me to spend the winter of that year in the Indian Punjab, staying with Sikh families in villages from where the children I was then teaching in Huddersfield had recently migrated. My draft report happened to be seen by an Oxford University Press editor, who recommended it for publication – Sikh Children in Britain, published in 1974.

While that publication, and my subsequent career in teaching and teaching teachers, were greatly informed by what I'd learnt, I would say it was much more a profoundly life-changing experience, shaping my own outlook on Western and other ways of living and thinking, and on the benefits and costs of Westernisation.