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**''Charles Tegart of the Indian Police'': an unpublished biography by Lady Tegart is available at the [[British Library]] with European Manuscripts catalogue entry [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-msseur_1&cid=636#636 Mss Eur C235] 1881-1946
***This [http://www.hindu.com/lr/2003/09/07/stories/2003090700240400.htm 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 [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/8187649364 FIBIS Shop]
*Eric Arthur Blair who was in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927 is better known as the author [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell George Orwell]. His [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_Days novel] ''Burmese Days'' was first published 1934 and is based on his experiences in the Burma Police. This [http://www.orwell.ru/library/novels/Burmese_Days/english/e_sm_ob article] by Steve Martin (www.orwell.ru) gives details of Katha, the northern town where Orwell was stationed from December 1926 to June 1927in the northern town of Katha, on which the fictional town of Kyauktada in Upper Burma in the novel is based. Article [http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/33723 "George Orwell’s Burmese Home Comes Back to Life"] by Nang Thiri Lwin May 4, 2013 ''The Irrawaddy''. Article [http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/lifestyle/10133-a-critic-in-katha-searching-for-the-essence-of-colonial-times.html "A critic in Katha Searching for the essence of colonial times"] by Amaury Lorin 10 April 2014 ''Myanmar Times'':The novel may be read onlineOnline edition: [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200051.txt ''Burmese Days''] Gutenberg.net.au.For more details, see [[George Orwell]]
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