IOR/R/15/2/1462

The file contains Government of India circulars and notices issued mainly by the External Affairs Department, 1945-1947, regarding the rules and procedures to be followed, mainly in relation to travel, for example, the return passages of officers on home leave and their families, between Britain and India, 1945.

Other circulars and publications in the file are:

• Rest House Rules for offices on tour, 1945;
• A booklet called Civil appointments in India and Burma: Indian Civil Service, Indian Political Service, Indian Police, Burma Civil Service (Class 1), Burma Police (Class 1), Burma Frontier Service: recruitment regulations and conditions of service for War Service candidates, published 1945;
• A notice published in The Gazette of India, issue dated 11 January 1946, being the formal notice of the termination of war between Britain and Siam (later Bangkok);
• Notice of the annual Indian Political Service dinner in London, 1947;
• A Finance Department notice about the wartime closure of Suspense Accounts.

The file also contains two circular letters, 1946, advertising the sale of uniforms by two officers leaving the service of the Government of India: Sir George Gillian and Sir Arthur Lothian.

There is also a copy of the nil return submitted by the Political Agent, Bahrain to the Government of India, War Department, Army Branch, New Delhi in 1945, in relation to reporting the number of military officers serving in civil departments.