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===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/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''. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[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
*[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
*[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/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.
*[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)
*''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)
*''Eastern Bengal and Assam Police Manual'' 1911 (Archive.org)
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*[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/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. 
*[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://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://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/284594 ''The Walking Stick Method of Self Defence'']. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Full title details (from elsewhere): ''The 'Walking Stick” Method of Self-Defence'' by an officer of the Indian Police (H. G. Lang). 1926
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/284594 ''The Walking Stick Method of Self Defence'']. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Full title details (from elsewhere): ''The 'Walking Stick” Method of Self-Defence'' by an officer of the Indian Police (H. G. Lang). 1926
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/34040 ''The Indian Police''] by    John Court Curry 1932. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[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
*[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://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://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/111097  ''The Police In British India 1861-1947''] by Anandswarup Gupta 1960. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/154754 ''The History Of The Andhra Pradesh Police (1861-1961)''] by Inspector-General of Police, Andhra Pradesh. 1961. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/111104 ''The History of the Indian Police''] by Percival Griffiths. 2nd edition 1972, first published 1971 (incorrectly catalogued as 1956). Pdf download, Digital Library of India.  Full title: ''To Guard My People : The History of the Indian Police''.


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Revision as of 07:37, 10 June 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 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)