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*[http://www.tajmahalfoxtrot.com/?p=1672    Maxine Steller’s Bombay].  Born in 1930, daughter of  Bill Taylor who was in the Bombay Police Force,  they lived in quarters behind  the various police stations he was assigned to. He later became Deputy Commissioner of Police.  She describes her early life, including becoming the female singer in a band, and the conditions before and after independence, until she left in 1950 for Australia. tajmahalfoxtrot.com
*[http://www.tajmahalfoxtrot.com/?p=1672    Maxine Steller’s Bombay].  Born in 1930, daughter of  Bill Taylor who was in the Bombay Police Force,  they lived in quarters behind  the various police stations he was assigned to. He later became Deputy Commissioner of Police.  She describes her early life, including becoming the female singer in a band, and the conditions before and after independence, until she left in 1950 for Australia. tajmahalfoxtrot.com


====Historical books online====
'''Thugs and thuggee'''
*"Acting in the “Theatre Of Anarchy” : The 'Anti-Thug Campaign' and Elaborations of Colonial Rule in Early Nineteenth-Century India" by Tom Lloyd.  ''Edinburgh Papers In South Asian Studies Number 19'' (2006) [http://www.institute-of-governance.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/38532/WP19_Tom_Lloyd.pdf pdf], [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:qYFjLCqzaB0J:www.institute-of-governance.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/38532/WP19_Tom_Lloyd.pdf+%E2%80%98Thuggee%E2%80%99+and+the+Margins+of+the+State+in+Early+Nineteenth-Century&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjAauem6A9XCQWcZXshZR4UcONYhC28NZX1lXtyOsyL2HMSGF9y7NO7hVOhIwhkFxx4Zar6XG9OMLOnnevQFxwWAYMH_QDnDaZPKwR4yOuQ0NdKd5TjyBZjbQv3LJPZ-qjdB2XQ&sig=AHIEtbSdvaowadgdVJdWmNmVAwERKvpOPA html version]
*"‘Thuggee’ and the Margins of the State in Early Nineteenth-Century Colonial India" by Tom Lloyd.  [http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/mutiny/confpapers/Lloyd-Paper.pdf pdf], [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:O_YiN6-GChAJ:www.csas.ed.ac.uk/mutiny/confpapers/Lloyd-Paper.pdf+Sleeman.+Kaye+1849&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjHJN2jp4KB_I6lPXve-bgYvrcJSkRbYIy9hsIeZtNvhtWA6MVWaW90xYMT28bvVCoadIU7eq3gZVFNrXf45InTMgqibYVF47XOp4LdURlbob-JyDIejy3m7NN2pODpPrVqnXZm&sig=AHIEtbQ8RaVEbpg00nXiPGhnVbgFtlEEMA html version].  A paper presented at  [http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/mutiny/confpapers/index.php Mutiny At The Margins: New Perspectives On The Indian Uprising Of 1857]  Conference at Edinburgh University, 23rd-26th July 2007
 
===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=x44IAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Report on the Police of the Bombay Presidency for 1857''] 1859 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=x44IAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Report on the Police of the Bombay Presidency for 1857''] 1859 Google Books
*[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
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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/crimeinindia029141mbp#page/n5/mode/2up ''Crime In India''] by S M Edwardes 1924 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/crimeinindia029141mbp#page/n5/mode/2up ''Crime In India''] by S M Edwardes 1924 Archive.org
*[http://haryanapolice.nic.in/PPR/PPR_Volume-II.pdf ''The Punjab Police Rules 1934. (As Applicable in Haryana State)''] haryanapolice.nic.in
*[http://haryanapolice.nic.in/PPR/PPR_Volume-II.pdf ''The Punjab Police Rules 1934. (As Applicable in Haryana State)''] haryanapolice.nic.in
===== Thugs=====
==== Thugs====
Alternative spelling Thags, Thegs. The crime of Thugee (Thuggee)
Alternative spelling Thags, Thegs. The crime of Thuggee (Thugee)


*''Asiatic Researches or Transactions of the Society instituted in Bengal, for inquiring into the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences, and literature, of Asia, Volume 13'' 1820 (Google Books).
*''Asiatic Researches or Transactions of the Society instituted in Bengal, for inquiring into the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences, and literature, of Asia, Volume 13'' 1820 (Google Books).
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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tBQPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Report on Budhuk alias Bagree decoits, and other gang robbers by hereditary profession: and on the measures adopted by the government of India, for their suppression''] by Lieut-Col W H Sleeman, Bengal Army 1849 (Google Books)
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tBQPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Report on Budhuk alias Bagree decoits, and other gang robbers by hereditary profession: and on the measures adopted by the government of India, for their suppression''] by Lieut-Col W H Sleeman, Bengal Army 1849 (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=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
*[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 (Google Books)



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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 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". Available through Amazon.co.uk from the FIBIS Shop
  • 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. This article by Steve Martin (www.orwell.ru) gives details of Katha, the northern town where Orwell was stationed from December 1926 to June 1927, on which the fictional town of Kyauktada in Upper Burma in the novel is based. The novel may be read online: Burmese Days Gutenberg.net.au.

External links

Thugs and thuggee

Historical books online

Thugs

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