IOR/R/15/2/1456

The file consists almost entirely of Government of India circular letters, memoranda and published notices, issued mainly by the Home Department, about the rules governing the conduct of Government of India employees, especially in relation to:

• Public talks given by Government servants and broadcasted by the Indian State Broadcasting Service or All India Radio, 1936-1943;
• The duty of Government servants in relation to the civil disobedience movement, forbidding them to engage in or influence political movements, propaganda or elections, 1921;
• The disciplinary action to be taken against Government servants who desert their public duty in the face of enemy action, 1942.

The file also contains:

• The Government Servants' Conduct Rules, 1915 and 1935 editions;
• A circular in English and Arabic issued by the Office of the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, dated 22 June 1919, reproducing a 1916 Rule forbidding Private Trade or Employment by full-time Government servants engaged in public duties;
• A circular letter dated 1936 from the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department about rules governing the acceptance of gifts;
• A note dated 1942 by the Political Agent, Bahrain, approving the receipt of wedding gifts from local merchants, by an employee of the Bahrain Agency;
• A circular warning letter dated 1928 from the British Envoy at the Court of Nepal about the dismissal of a clerk from the British Legation office, Nepal, for fraud.