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***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".
*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: [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200051.txt ''Burmese Days''] Gutenberg.net.au. For more details, see [[George Orwell]]
*Sergeant J. D. Conway, Madras Police was awarded the Indian Police Medal, G.V.R., for Distinguished Conduct in 1934 for operations against the hill tribes in the Kalyanasingpur Valley of the Vizagapatam Agency in January 1933.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/ordersdecosmedalsmar2014dixn/page/n54/mode/1up Digital page 54, item 235] [DNW] ‘’ Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria’’ March 2014 Archive.org. <br>[https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/special-collections/lot.php?specialcollection_id=310&lot_id=244066 Conway: dnw.co.uk] with zoom feature for the image of the medal.</ref>
* Inspector James Dwyer, Bengal Police] was awarded the Indian Police Medal, G.V.R., for Distinguished Conduct in 1935. He joined the Calcutta Police from the British Army in 1919.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/ordersdecosmedalsmar2014dixn/page/n54/mode/1up Digital page 54, item 234] [DNW]‘’ Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria’’ March 2014. Archive.org.<br>[https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/special-collections/lot.php?specialcollection_id=310&lot_id=244065 Dwyer: dnw.co.uk] with zoom feature for the image of the medals.</ref>
==External links==
*[https://archive.org/details/b22305579 ''Poisoning in India''] by Sir J Fayrer 1885 Archive.org. Includes a sect of Thugs called Daturiahs.
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