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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.529090  ''Justice And Police In Bengal: 1765-1793''] by  N Majumdar 1960. Full title: ''Justice and Police in Bengal, 1765-1793. A study of the Nizamat in decline''. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.  
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.529090  ''Justice And Police In Bengal: 1765-1793''] by  N Majumdar 1960. Full title: ''Justice and Police in Bengal, 1765-1793. A study of the Nizamat in decline''. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.  
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TA9eAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''An Exposure of the Haunts of Infamy and Dens of Vice in Bombay. Collected from facts''] by Michael Kirwan Joyce, late Bombay Police Force. 1854 Google Books
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TA9eAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''An Exposure of the Haunts of Infamy and Dens of Vice in Bombay. Collected from facts''] by Michael Kirwan Joyce, late Bombay Police Force. 1854 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=x44IAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Report on the Police of the Bombay Presidency for 1857''] 1859 Google Books
*''Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'' [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.107993/page/n3/mode/2up ''No CXVI New Series: Annual Police Report for 1868 Province of Sind''] 1870. Same digital file [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.107993/page/n139/mode/2up  1869]  (1871) ''No CXXII New Series''; [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.107993/page/n309/mode/2up  1870]  (1871) ''No CXXIV New Series'' Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/ourrealdangerini00forj ''Our Real Danger in India''] by C Forjett, late Commissioner of Police of Bombay c 1877. Archive.org.  Includes the author’s views on the causes of the [[Indian Mutiny]]  and his part in the preventative and precautionary measures taken in Bombay during the Mutiny.
*[https://archive.org/details/ourrealdangerini00forj ''Our Real Danger in India''] by C Forjett, late Commissioner of Police of Bombay c 1877. Archive.org.  Includes the author’s views on the causes of the [[Indian Mutiny]]  and his part in the preventative and precautionary measures taken in Bombay during the Mutiny.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/fromenglandtoant00tyrrrich#page/72/mode/2up ''From England to the Antipodes & India - 1846 to 1902, with startling revelations, or 56 years of my life in the Indian Mutiny, Police & Jails''] by Isaac Tyrell 1904, page 73 the author left the 43rd  Regiment of Foot (British Army) in 1860 and joined the Madras Police. Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/fromenglandtoant00tyrrrich#page/72/mode/2up ''From England to the Antipodes & India - 1846 to 1902, with startling revelations, or 56 years of my life in the Indian Mutiny, Police & Jails''] by Isaac Tyrell 1904, page 73 the author left the 43rd  Regiment of Foot (British Army) in 1860 and joined the Madras Police. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/flyonwheelorhowi00lewiiala/page/n7/mode/2up  ''A fly on the wheel; or, How I helped to govern India''] by Lieut.-Col. Thomas H Lewin 1912. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.6879/page/n1/mode/2up  1885 edition] with illustrations. Archive.org. From being an officer in the British Army, from 1861-1866 he was with a battalion of military police, and then District Superintendent of Police, (Bengal).   
*[https://archive.org/details/flyonwheelorhowi00lewiiala/page/n7/mode/2up  ''A fly on the wheel; or, How I helped to govern India''] by Lieut.-Col. Thomas H Lewin 1912. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.6879/page/n1/mode/2up  1885 edition] with illustrations. Archive.org. From being an officer in the British Army, from 1861-1866 he was with a battalion of military police, and then District Superintendent of Police, (Bengal).   
*[http://www.archive.org/details/reminiscencesofi00crawrich ''Reminiscences of an Indian Police Official''] by T C Arthur (pseudonym):  Arthur Travers Crawford (1894) Bombay Presidency (Archive.org)
*[http://www.archive.org/details/reminiscencesofi00crawrich ''Reminiscences of an Indian Police Official''] by T C Arthur (pseudonym):  Arthur Travers Crawford (1894) Bombay Presidency (Archive.org)
*[https://archive.org/stream/andthatremindsme00coxo#page/n105/mode/2up  ''And that reminds me 
being incidents of a life spent at sea, and in the Andaman Islands, Burma, Australia, and India''] 
by Stanley W. Coxon 1915, page 71 Archive.org. The author was appointed Assistant District Superintendent of Police in Kyaukse District, Upper Burma c late 1880s.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924092600141  ''Oriental Prisons: Prisons and Crime in India, The Andaman Islands, Burmah- China-Japan-Egypt Turkey''] by Major Arthur Griffiths, late Inspector of Prisons in Great Britain.  C 1900. Archive.org. Volume XII in the series ''The history and romance of crime from the earliest time to the present day''. Published by the Grolier Society.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924092600141  ''Oriental Prisons: Prisons and Crime in India, The Andaman Islands, Burmah- China-Japan-Egypt Turkey''] by Major Arthur Griffiths, late Inspector of Prisons in Great Britain.  C 1900. Archive.org. Volume XII in the series ''The history and romance of crime from the earliest time to the present day''. Published by the Grolier Society.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433003078148?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Report of the Indian Police Commission and Resolution of the Government of India'']. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty. 1905. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*''The Bengal Police Manual, 1911'' [http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalpolicemanu01gove#page/n5/mode/2up Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/details/bengalpolicemanu02gove Volume 2, Forms and Appendices] (Archive.org)
*''Eastern Bengal and Assam Police Manual'' 1911 (Archive.org)
:*[http://www.archive.org/stream/easternbengalass03eastiala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 3 Reserve, Ordnance, Clothing, Guards and Escorts'']
:*[http://www.archive.org/stream/easternbengalass04eastiala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 4 Court Office'']
:*[http://www.archive.org/stream/easternbengalass05eastiala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 5 Inspectors and Police Stations'']
:*[https://archive.org/details/indextoeasternbe00eastiala/page/n5 ''Index to the Eastern Bengal and Assam Police Manual''] 1912.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.76994 ''Orders Of The Madras Police (vol-iii)''] 1911.  Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/mythirtyyearsini00coxerich/page/n8 ''My Thirty Years in India''] by Sir Edmund C Cox 1909. Archive.org. He arrived in India late 1876, was a teacher, was for a few years in the Bombay Political Department then joined the Bombay Police c 1882, leaving in 1908.   
*[https://archive.org/details/mythirtyyearsini00coxerich/page/n8 ''My Thirty Years in India''] by Sir Edmund C Cox 1909. Archive.org. He arrived in India late 1876, was a teacher, was for a few years in the Bombay Political Department then joined the Bombay Police c 1882, leaving in 1908.   
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/policecrimeinind00coxerich#page/n5/mode/2up  ''Police and Crime in India''] by Sir Edmund C Cox, Bombay Police. Cataloged  1911. Archive.org
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/policecrimeinind00coxerich#page/n5/mode/2up  ''Police and Crime in India''] by Sir Edmund C Cox, Bombay Police. Cataloged  1911. Archive.org
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:[https://archive.org/details/tigerslayerbyord00davirich/page/n9/mode/2up  ''Tiger Slayer by Order  (Digby Davies, late Bombay Police)''] by C E Gouldsbury late Indian Police 1915. Archive.org. Digby Davies  joined Bombay Police 7 January 1882, and  was still employed at the time of  1905 India Office List.
:[https://archive.org/details/tigerslayerbyord00davirich/page/n9/mode/2up  ''Tiger Slayer by Order  (Digby Davies, late Bombay Police)''] by C E Gouldsbury late Indian Police 1915. Archive.org. Digby Davies  joined Bombay Police 7 January 1882, and  was still employed at the time of  1905 India Office List.
:[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofs00goulrich/page/n9/mode/2up ''Reminiscences of a Stowaway; a Career of Adventure''] by C E Gouldsbury 1920 Archive.org. The career of Alexander Douglas Larymore who joined the Bengal Police 31 July 1862. Retired November 1898 as off. Inspector -General of Jails.
:[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofs00goulrich/page/n9/mode/2up ''Reminiscences of a Stowaway; a Career of Adventure''] by C E Gouldsbury 1920 Archive.org. The career of Alexander Douglas Larymore who joined the Bengal Police 31 July 1862. Retired November 1898 as off. Inspector -General of Jails.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/policeregulation04bengiala#page/n3/mode/2up ''Police Regulations, Bengal 1915 Volume 4, Court Office''] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/andthatremindsme00coxo#page/n105/mode/2up ''And that reminds me 
being incidents of a life spent at sea, and in the Andaman Islands, Burma, Australia, and India''] 
by Stanley W. Coxon 1915, page 71 Archive.org. The author was appointed Assistant District Superintendent of Police in Kyaukse District, Upper Burma c late 1880s.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38534 ''History Of The Police In Bengal''] by W R Gourlay 1916. Full title: ''A Contribution Towards a History of the Police in Bengal''.  Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.   
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38534 ''History Of The Police In Bengal''] by W R Gourlay 1916. Full title: ''A Contribution Towards a History of the Police in Bengal''.  Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.   
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.511693/2015.511693.Index-To#page/n152/mode/1up Award of King’s Police Medal] ''The Gazette of India Extraordinary'', page 27, January 1, 1918. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.  
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.511693/2015.511693.Index-To#page/n152/mode/1up Award of King’s Police Medal] ''The Gazette of India Extraordinary'', page 27, January 1, 1918. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/reportsed00indi ''Sedition Committee 1918 Report''] Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta. 1918. Archive.org. One of the aims of the Committee was to “investigate and report on the nature and extent of the criminal conspiracies connected with the revolutionary movement in India.”
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/inindiandistrict00iver#page/n3/mode/2up ''In an Indian District; an enlarged edition of “Police Notes”''] by G.G.B. Iver, Indian Police 1919 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/inindiandistrict00iver#page/n3/mode/2up ''In an Indian District; an enlarged edition of “Police Notes”''] by G.G.B. Iver, Indian Police 1919 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/bombaycitypolice030564mbp#page/n7/mode/2up  ''The Bombay City Police: A Historical Sketch  1672-1916''] by S M Edwardes 1923 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/bombaycitypolice030564mbp#page/n7/mode/2up  ''The Bombay City Police: A Historical Sketch  1672-1916''] by S M Edwardes 1923 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/crimeinindia029141mbp#page/n5/mode/2up ''Crime In India. A Brief Review of the more Important Offences included in the Annual Criminal Returns with Chapters on Prostitution & Miscellaneous Matters''] by S M Edwardes 1924 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/crimeinindia029141mbp#page/n5/mode/2up ''Crime In India. A Brief Review of the more Important Offences included in the Annual Criminal Returns with Chapters on Prostitution & Miscellaneous Matters''] by S M Edwardes 1924 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284594 ''The Walking Stick Method of Self Defence'']. Archive.org. Public Library of India Collection.  Full title details from elsewhere ''The 'Walking Stick” Method of Self-Defence'' by an officer of the Indian Police (H. G. Lang). 1926
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284594 ''The Walking Stick Method of Self Defence'']. Archive.org. Public Library of India Collection.  Full title details from elsewhere ''The 'Walking Stick” Method of Self-Defence'' by an officer of the Indian Police (H. G. Lang). 1926
*[https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP454-9-3  ''Assam Police Manual: Prepared by the Inspector General of Police under the orders of the Government of Assam. Part VI: Railway and River Police'']. 1931.  British Library Digital Collection Endangered Archives Programme EAP454/9/3 . Images are in TIFF format.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.34040 ''The Indian Police''] by    John Court Curry 1932. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.  
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.34040 ''The Indian Police''] by    John Court Curry 1932. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.  
*[http://haryanapolice.nic.in/PPR/PPR_Volume-II.pdf ''The Punjab Police Rules 1934. (As Applicable in Haryana State)''] haryanapolice.nic.in
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.04565/page/n5/mode/2up ''My India''] by Lillian Luker Ashby with Roger Whately 1938 Archive.org. The author was born in Monghyr, in the Province of Bengal and Bihar in 1876. She was the daughter of a Police Inspector, and her husband, early in the marriage became a  Police Inspector, whose last job was  at Sakchi at the Tata’s Iron and Steel Works in charge of the Police. She left India c 1928 when her husband retired due to ill heath.
*[http://www.sangrurpolice.in/sample-page/the-acts-and-rules/  The Acts and Rules] from [http://www.sangrurpolice.in Sangrur Police] includes Volumes I, II and III of the ''Punjab Police Rules'' 1934
*[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/28762 ''Annual Report on the Police of the City of Bombay, for the year 1934''] (Commissioner of Police, Bombay, 1935.) Link to a pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India
:[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/28780 ''Annual Report on the Police of the City of Bombay, for the year 1936''] (Commissioner of Police, Bombay, 1937) Link to a pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.111097  ''The Police In British India 1861-1947''] by Anandswarup Gupta 1960. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.  
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.111097  ''The Police In British India 1861-1947''] by Anandswarup Gupta 1960. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.  
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.154754 ''The History Of The Andhra Pradesh Police (1861-1961)''] by Inspector-General of Police, Andhra Pradesh. 1961. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.154754 ''The History Of The Andhra Pradesh Police (1861-1961)''] by Inspector-General of Police, Andhra Pradesh. 1961. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.111104 ''The History of the Indian Police''] by Percival Griffiths. 2nd edition 1972, first published 1971 (incorrectly catalogued as 1956). Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.  Full title: ''To Guard My People : The History of the Indian Police''.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.111104 ''The History of the Indian Police''] by Percival Griffiths. 2nd edition 1972, first published 1971 (incorrectly catalogued as 1956). Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.  Full title: ''To Guard My People : The History of the Indian Police''.
*[https://archive.org/details/policepowercolon0000arno/page/n5 ''Police Power and Colonial Rule: Madras 1859-1947''] by David Arnold 1986.  Archive.org Lending Library
*[https://archive.org/details/policepowercolon0000arno/page/n5 ''Police Power and Colonial Rule: Madras 1859-1947''] by David Arnold 1986.  Archive.org Lending Library
====Manuals, Reports etc====
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=x44IAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Report on the Police of the Bombay Presidency for 1857''] 1859 Google Books
*''Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'' [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.107993/page/n3/mode/2up ''No CXVI New Series: Annual Police Report for 1868 Province of Sind''] 1870. Same digital file [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.107993/page/n139/mode/2up  1869]  (1871) ''No CXXII New Series''; [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.107993/page/n309/mode/2up  1870]  (1871) ''No CXXIV New Series'' Archive.org.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-C9BAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 ''The Burma Police Manual, Volume II The Criminal Law bearing on Police Action''] compiled by A St. J Ingle, Officiating District Superintendent of Police 1899 Google Books.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433003078148?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Report of the Indian Police Commission and Resolution of the Government of India'']. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty. 1905. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*''The Bengal Police Manual, 1911'' [http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalpolicemanu01gove#page/n5/mode/2up Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/details/bengalpolicemanu02gove Volume 2, Forms and Appendices] (Archive.org)
*''Eastern Bengal and Assam Police Manual'' 1911 (Archive.org)
:*[http://www.archive.org/stream/easternbengalass03eastiala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 3 Reserve, Ordnance, Clothing, Guards and Escorts'']
:*[http://www.archive.org/stream/easternbengalass04eastiala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 4 Court Office'']
:*[http://www.archive.org/stream/easternbengalass05eastiala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 5 Inspectors and Police Stations'']
:*[https://archive.org/details/indextoeasternbe00eastiala/page/n5 ''Index to the Eastern Bengal and Assam Police Manual''] 1912.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.76994 ''Orders Of The Madras Police (vol-iii)''] 1911.  Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/policeregulation04bengiala#page/n3/mode/2up ''Police Regulations, Bengal 1915 Volume 4, Court Office''] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/reportsed00indi ''Sedition Committee 1918 Report''] Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta. 1918. Archive.org. One of the aims of the Committee was to “investigate and report on the nature and extent of the criminal conspiracies connected with the revolutionary movement in India.”
*[https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP454-9-3  ''Assam Police Manual: Prepared by the Inspector General of Police under the orders of the Government of Assam. Part VI: Railway and River Police'']. 1931.  British Library Digital Collection Endangered Archives Programme EAP454/9/3 . Images are in TIFF format.
*[http://haryanapolice.nic.in/PPR/PPR_Volume-II.pdf ''The Punjab Police Rules 1934. (As Applicable in Haryana State)''] haryanapolice.nic.in
*[http://www.sangrurpolice.in/sample-page/the-acts-and-rules/  The Acts and Rules] from [http://www.sangrurpolice.in Sangrur Police] includes Volumes I, II and III of the ''Punjab Police Rules'' 1934
*[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/28762 ''Annual Report on the Police of the City of Bombay, for the year 1934''] (Commissioner of Police, Bombay, 1935.) Link to a pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India
:[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/28780 ''Annual Report on the Police of the City of Bombay, for the year 1936''] (Commissioner of Police, Bombay, 1937) Link to a pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India
*''Burma Police Manual''  1985 reprint of  [https://www.burmalibrary.org/sites/burmalibrary.org/files/obl/docs17/Police_Manual-Vol.1-ocr-bw-en.pdf Volume I  5th edition 1939], [https://www.burmalibrary.org/docs17/Police_Manual-Vol.2ocr-bw-en.pdf Volume II 5th edition 1940] burmalibrary.org
====Ceylon====
====Ceylon====
*''A History of the Ceylon Police Volume II (1866-1913)''  by A.C. Dep 1969. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/saoa.crl.26422464 Jstor.org version] South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) Collection. To read particular pages online, it may be necessary to navigate via the thumbnail images. [https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/books/items/u424072 University of Virginia version], scroll down to "Download PDF".
*''A History of the Ceylon Police Volume II (1866-1913)''  by A.C. Dep 1969. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/saoa.crl.26422464 Jstor.org version] South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) Collection. To read particular pages online, it may be necessary to navigate via the thumbnail images. [https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u424072 University of Virginia version], scroll down to "Download PDF".
:''A History of the Ceylon Police Vol.1. 1795-1870'' by G.K. Pippet 1938 is available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01004088800
:''A History of the Ceylon Police Vol.1. 1795-1870'' by G.K. Pippet 1938 is available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01004088800



Latest revision as of 07:53, 17 January 2023

Sgt Meppen Warburton Walter in police uniform, Calcutta 1919

Records

FIBIS resources

Roll of Indian Police officers 1861-1947 - Superintendents & Asst Superintendents Database set containing names of 1,711 officers, who, from 1861, served as Superintendents, and from 1893 as Assistant Superintendents, and above.

Madras Presidency

Administration Reports of the Madras Police

The Administration Report of the Madras Police returned between 1866 and 1893 (IOR/V/24/3129-33) are largely statistical documents but contain the odd family history snippet. Note that the format seems to change year on year. The Superintendent of each Madras district sent a report detailing incidents worthy of comment, some being major crimes, some being internal disciplinary matters. Although names are not often given, phrases such as "the Head Constable of --- station" are used, meaning that if you have a police ancestor in Madras at this time it might be worth checking these reports. If nothing else, the reports give a flavour of the police work. The series appears to be continued from 1894-1948 (IOR/V/24/3133-37) but the content of these files cannot be commented upon.

Editions found online:

Individuals

  • Charles Tegart. He joined the Calcutta Police in 1901, becoming head of its Detective Department. He served almost continuously in Calcutta for a period of thirty years until he was appointed a member of the Secretary of State's Indian Council in December 1931.
    • Charles Tegart Wikipedia
    • "An Irishman is specially suited to be a policeman" historyireland.com
    • Charles Tegart : Hero or Villain? by Dr Sudhir Kumar Jha (former Director General of Police, Bihar) July 22, 2014. “British Raj in India”.
    • Charles Tegart of the Indian Police: an unpublished biography by Lady Tegart is available at the British Library with European Manuscripts catalogue entry Mss Eur C235 1881-1946
      • This review, from The Hindu, of the book Travel Writing and the Empire by Sachidananda Mohanty (Editor), gives details of one of the essays "Colonialism, Surveillance and Memoirs of travel: Tegart's Diaries and the Andaman Cellular Jail", where "Tutun Mukherjee looks at the "Memoir of an Indian Policeman", a compilation made by Tegart's wife of the diaries of Charles Augustus Tegart, British loyalist and Police Commissioner. The Memoir, Mukherjee notes, records a particularly violent chapter in India's colonial history, that of extremism, British repression and brutal colonial incarceration. Travelling to the Cellular Jail in the beautiful Andaman archipelago in 1913, Tegart notes the careful architecture of the prison, recording all the many ways in which the prisoners were kept under control, his eyes ever alert for lapses in vigilance".
  • Eric Arthur Blair who was in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927 is better known as the author George Orwell. His novel Burmese Days was first published 1934 and is based on his experiences in the Burma Police. Orwell was stationed from December 1926 to June 1927 in the northern town of Katha, on which the fictional town of Kyauktada in Upper Burma in the novel is based. Online edition: Burmese Days Gutenberg.net.au. For more details, see George Orwell
  • Sergeant J. D. Conway, Madras Police was awarded the Indian Police Medal, G.V.R., for Distinguished Conduct in 1934 for operations against the hill tribes in the Kalyanasingpur Valley of the Vizagapatam Agency in January 1933.[1]
  • Inspector James Dwyer, Bengal Police] was awarded the Indian Police Medal, G.V.R., for Distinguished Conduct in 1935. He joined the Calcutta Police from the British Army in 1919.[2]
  • Bill Taylor of the Bombay Police Force became Deputy Commissioner of Police. His daughter Maxine (whose married name became Steller) describes life as a policeman's daughter. Initially, the family lived in quarters behind the various police stations he was assigned to, where her life was very different to the ones normal families led. They moved to some very dangerous areas, and during riots the children would be escorted to and from school by a sepoy. Her father later on had responsibility for ensuring the safety of visiting dignitaries. [3]

External links

Thugs and thuggee

Historical books online

Police and Crime in India by Sir Edmund C Cox, Bombay Police. Cataloged 1911. Archive.org
(He also wrote A Short History of the Bombay Presidency by Edmund C Cox, Bombay District Police 1887 Archive.org)
Fiction
  • Life in the Indian Police by Charles Elphinstone Gouldsbury 1912 Archive.org. The author joined the Bengal Police Department 20 June 1869, retired January 1903.
Tiger Slayer by Order (Digby Davies, late Bombay Police) by C E Gouldsbury late Indian Police 1915. Archive.org. Digby Davies joined Bombay Police 7 January 1882, and was still employed at the time of 1905 India Office List.
Reminiscences of a Stowaway; a Career of Adventure by C E Gouldsbury 1920 Archive.org. The career of Alexander Douglas Larymore who joined the Bengal Police 31 July 1862. Retired November 1898 as off. Inspector -General of Jails.

Manuals, Reports etc

Annual Report on the Police of the City of Bombay, for the year 1936 (Commissioner of Police, Bombay, 1937) Link to a pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India

Ceylon

  • A History of the Ceylon Police Volume II (1866-1913) by A.C. Dep 1969. Jstor.org version South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) Collection. To read particular pages online, it may be necessary to navigate via the thumbnail images. University of Virginia version, scroll down to "Download PDF".
A History of the Ceylon Police Vol.1. 1795-1870 by G.K. Pippet 1938 is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01004088800

Thugs

Alternative spelling Thags, Thegs. The crime of Thuggee (Thugee)

References

  1. Digital page 54, item 235 [DNW] ‘’ Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria’’ March 2014 Archive.org.
    Conway: dnw.co.uk with zoom feature for the image of the medal.
  2. Digital page 54, item 234 [DNW]‘’ Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria’’ March 2014. Archive.org.
    Dwyer: dnw.co.uk with zoom feature for the image of the medals.
  3. Maxine Steller’s Bombay tajmahalfoxtrot.com