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1. Mss Eur F226

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Mss Eur F226
Title:
Memoirs of former members of the Indian Political Service or their wives
Scope & Content:
Indian Political Service Collection: memoirs of some thirty-five former members of the Indian Political Service, or their wives, describing their experiences, chiefly in the period 1920-1947, as political officers in the Indian States, the North-West Frontier Province, Baluchistan, or the Residen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920-1947
Extent:
35 items

2. Mss Eur F226/1

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Mss Eur F226/1
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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.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929-1940
Extent:
Unspecified

3. Mss Eur F226/2

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Mss Eur F226/2
Title:
Memoir of John Evelyn Arnold Bazalgette
Scope & Content:
The file is a memoir of the career of Major John Evelyn Arnold Bazalgette, covering his service in the British Army and in India and the Persian Gulf. The file consists of three parts. The first part is a draft of a short memoir entitled ‘Jack of all trades’, which recounts Bazalgette’s experie...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 20th century-1984
Extent:

3 items (550 folios)

4. Mss Eur F226/3

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Mss Eur F226/3
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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
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929-1946
Extent:
Unspecified

5. Mss Eur F226/4

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Mss Eur F226/4
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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
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1936-1943
Extent:
Unspecified

6. Mss Eur F226/5

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Mss Eur F226/5
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BROWNSDON, Maj Thomas Edward (b 1910), IPS 1936, Secretary to the Resident, Mysore 1947 Memoir of his career in India, diary of his life thereafter, and photographs: Indian Army, Hyderabad, Lucknow, journey round the world, Quetta, Panjgur (Makran), Afghanistan, Tank (N.W.F.P.), United Nations...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1932-1967
Extent:
Unspecified

7. Mss Eur F226/6

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Mss Eur F226/6
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CHAUNCY, Maj Frederick Charles Leslie (b 1904), IPS 1930, Political Agent, Chhattisgarh States 1945-47 Letter, dated 7 Jul 1983, containing anecdotes of his career in the IPS and later: Khoramshahr, Sharjah
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930-1944
Extent:
Unspecified

8. Mss Eur F226/7

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Mss Eur F226/7
Title:
Memoirs and Recollections of An Officer of the Indian Political Service
Scope & Content:
This file contains a photocopy of a typewritten draft of Sir John Richard Cotton's (b 1909) memoirs of his time in the Indian military and civil service. The memoirs, which were written when the author was 'in his seventy-fourth year', cover his time in the Indian Army, at Aden, Ethiopia, Attock...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1983?
Extent:

1 file (78 folios)

9. Mss Eur F226/8

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Mss Eur F226/8
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Scope & Content:
DRING, Lt-Col Sir (Arthur) John (b 1902), IPS 1927, Chief Secretary, N.W.F.P. 1947, Prime Minister Bahawalpur State 1948-52 Anecdotes of career in IPS: Charsadda, Lord and Lady Willingdon, Sir George Cunningham, South Waziristan; Deputy Commissioner, Peshawar 1945; Nehru's visit to the Frontie...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1927
Extent:
Unspecified

10. Mss Eur F226/9

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Mss Eur F226/9
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GUERITZ, Mrs M E, wife of Maj John Elton Fortescue Geuritz (b 1911), IPS 1946, Assistant Political Agent, Chhattisgarh States 1946-47 Recollections of Raipur and Chattisgarh States
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1946-1947
Extent:
Unspecified