IOR/R/15/2/1436

The file contains Government of India circular letters, memoranda and notices issued mainly by the Home Department and also the Finance Department and the External Affairs Department. The circulars contain rules, regulations, policies and procedures relating to the pay, allowances and other conditions of service of Government of India employees before, during and after the Second World War (1939-1945), including:

• Legal Studies Rules, 1937;
• Reserved Posts (North-West Frontier Province) Rules 1939;
• Appointments to vacancies reserved for Anglo-Indians, 1938-1939;
• Liability to British income tax of Government of India officers going on home leave from India to Great Britain or Northern Ireland, 1938;
• Leave restrictions during wartime conditions, 1942;
• Investigation of fraud and embezzlement of Government money by Government employees, 1943 and 1945;
• Payment of sea passages for officers proceeding on leave from India to the United Kingdom under the Key Leave Scheme, 1944;
• Travelling allowances for employees taking leave in India during the war, for essential rest and recreation, 1944-1947;
• Grant of approval for the employment of retired Government of India employees by commercial firms, 1945;
• Discontinuance of policy of reserving permanent Government of India vacancies for war service candidates, 1945;
• Lifting of war-time restrictions on travellers from India, 1945;
• Resettlement programme for the large number of Government of India temporary employees at the end of the war, 1945 and 1947;
• Grant of priority for sea passages to families wishing to travel from Britain to India, 1946;
• Removal of ban on the retirement, including premature retirement, of Government of India officers, 1945-1946.

The file also contains:

• Correspondence in 1939 between the Political Officer for the Trucial Coast, British Agency, Sharjah and the Political Agent, Bahrain, about a request by Abdullah bin Faris (Secretary to the Sheikh of Sharjah) to become a naturalised British subject, together with an extract about eligibility rules under the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1919;
• Correspondence between the Government of India Home Department, the India Office, London and the Victoria League, London, about hospitality offered by the League to Indian visitors in England, 1938-1939;
• Public Notices issued by the Federal Public Service Commission (India) about holding competitive examinations for the recruitment of assistants and clerks in Government of India departments, 1939.