A memoir written by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career in the Royal Artillery, Rajputana, Sialkot, Persia, North West Frontier Province, Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf, and Kuwait. Typescript with manuscript corrections.
TRENCH, Mrs Mary Chenevix, daughter of Lt-Col George Kirkbride (b 1894), IPS 1922, Political Agent in Mewar (Udaipur) and Southern Rajputana States 1943-47. (i) Recollections entitled 'A Child's experience of Gilgit, 1934-37', (ii) 'The Winter of 46-47 in Udaipur': diaries kept while staying o...
BREMNER, Mrs Anne, wife of Lt-Col Claude Urquhart Bremner (1891-1965), IPS 1919, British Consul, Portuguese possessions in India 1940-43 'India during the British Raj': recollections of Kathiawar, Quetta, Goa
MAGOR, Maj Edward Walter Moyle (b 1911), IPS 1937, Under Secretary, Baroda and Gujarat States 1946-47 'Some reminiscences of service in the Indian Political Service': Ajmer and Ajmer-Merwara, Orissa States, Kolhapur and Deccan States, Gujarat States
PEARSON, Sir Francis Fenwick, 1st Bt (b 1911), IPS 1936, Chief Minister, Manipur State 1945-47 'Reminiscences of an Indian Political Officer': brief recollections of service in Indian Army; A.D.C. to Lord and Lady Willingdon, Rajkot, Under-Secretary, Foreign and Political Dept, Manipur, later ...
BISCOE, Maj Dudley Hugh (b 1909), IPS 1934, Secretary to Resident, Punjab Hill States 1946 'I was in the Indian Political Service': memoirs of career in British Army in India, and of Moradabad, Quetta, Mysore, Fort Sandeman, Orissa States, Chhattisgarh States
HALL, Mrs Margery, wife of Maj Harold Percival Hall (b 1913), IPS 1937, Director of Food and Civil Supplies, Baluchistan 1945-47 'And the nights were more terrible than the days': autobiography by Mrs Hall: voyage to India, social and army life in India, Quetta, moral laxity among Europeans, J...
KAPUR, Maj Balraj Krishna (b 1910), IPS 1936, Deputy Secretary, External Affairs Dept 1946-47 Brief memoir of his career in IPS: North West Frontier Province
BARNES, Mrs M O, wife of Maj Humphrey Aston Barnes (1900-40), IPS 1927, Political Agent, Zhob 1939-40. Recollections of N.W.F.P.: Charsadda, Peshawar, South Waziristan; with copies attached of two letters from M K Gandhi to Barnes.