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had chosen to make their careers in the frontier districts. The latter came about because when the NWFP was separated from the Punjab in 1901, the then Viceroy Curzon made sure the new Province was directly under his control.<ref> "Not Quite Soft Power: The Politicals" by Colonel Graeme Sligo, refer External links above.</ref>
Members of the Foreign and Political Department were sometimes known as ''The Twice Born'', a progression of the terminology sometimes used in respect of members the Indian Civil Service, ''The Heaven-Born''.<ref>[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037450601.0x00002e Page 23]
''Thim Days Is Gone''. Qatar Digital Library. A memoir written by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career, initially in the Royal Artillery in a Light Battery, and an Indian Mountain Battery in the early 1930s and then the Foreign and Political Department from October 1936.</ref>
==External links==
*Chapter 4 "Not Quite Soft Power: The Politicals", page 61, [http://www.defence.gov.au/adc/publications/commanders/2012/02_sligo%20paper.pdf ''An Historical Analysis of the ‘Incessant Disputes in the Tribal Areas’ (of the North-West Frontier) against the British (and the British Indian Army) from 1893 to 1939''] by Colonel Graeme Sligo, Australian Army October 2012. This paper was prepared for submission to the National Defence University (NDU) of Pakistan, where the author was a student in 2011-12. Australian Defence website
