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:*[http://www.archive.org/stream/easternbengalass03eastiala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 3 Reserve, Ordnance, Clothing, Guards and Escorts'']  
:*[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/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'']  
:*[http://www.archive.org/stream/easternbengalass05eastiala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 5 Inspectors and Police Stations'']
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/policecrimeinind00coxerich#page/n5/mode/2up  ''Police and crime in India''] by Edmund Charles Cox 1911 Archiv.org
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/76994 ''Orders Of The Madras Police (vol-iii)''] 1911.  Pdf download, Digital Library of India. 
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeinindianpoli00goulrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Life in the Indian police''] by Charles Elphinstone Gouldsbury 1912 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/policecrimeinind00coxerich#page/n5/mode/2up  ''Police and crime in India''] by Edmund Charles Cox 1911 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeinindianpoli00goulrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Life in the Indian Police''] by Charles Elphinstone Gouldsbury 1912 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/policeregulation04bengiala#page/n3/mode/2up ''Police Regulations, Bengal 1915 Volume 4, Court Office''] Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/policeregulation04bengiala#page/n3/mode/2up ''Police Regulations, Bengal 1915 Volume 4, Court Office''] Archive.org
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/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''. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.   
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/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''. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.   
*[https://archive.org/details/reportsed00indi ''Sedition Committee 1918 Report''] Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta. 1918. 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://archive.org/details/reportsed00indi ''Sedition Committee 1918 Report''] Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta. 1918. 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
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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LGwBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA3 ''A popular account of the thugs and dacoits: the hereditary garotters and gang-robbers of India''] James Hutton 1857 (Google Books)
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LGwBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA3 ''A popular account of the thugs and dacoits: the hereditary garotters and gang-robbers of India''] James Hutton 1857 (Google Books)
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6ocIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1 "Report Of Operations In The Thuggee And Dacoity Department, during 1859 and 1860"] ''Selections from the Records of the Government of India, Foreign Department] No. XXXIV'' 1861 (Google Books)
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6ocIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1 "Report Of Operations In The Thuggee And Dacoity Department, during 1859 and 1860"] ''Selections from the Records of the Government of India, Foreign Department] No. XXXIV'' 1861 (Google Books)
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=CYkIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Report on the crime of thuggee by means of poisons in British territory  1864-66''] by Charles Robert W. Hervey (Google Books)
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=CYkIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Report on the crime of thuggee by means of poisons in British territory  1864-66''] by Charles Robert W. Hervey 1868. (Google Books)





Revision as of 14:21, 8 July 2016

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

External links

Thugs and thuggee

Historical books online

Thugs

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