Police
Records
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:
External links
Historical books online
- Report on the Police of the Bombay Presidency for 1857 1859 Google Books
- 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
- Reminiscences of an Indian Police Official by Arthur Travers Crawford (1894) Bombay Presidency (Archive.org)
- The Bengal Police Manual, 1911 Volume 1, Volume 2, Forms and Appendices (Archive.org)
- Eastern Bengal and Assam Police Manual 1911 (Archive.org)
- Police and crime in India by Edmund Charles Cox 1911 Archiv.org
- Life in the Indian police by Charles Elphinstone Gouldsbury 1912 Archive.org
- Police Regulations, Bengal 1915 Volume 4, Court Office Archive.org
- In an Indian District; an enlarged edition of “Police Notes” by G.G.B. Iver, Indian Police 1919 Archive.org
- The Bombay City Police: A Historical Sketch 1672-1916 by S M Edwardes 1923 Archive.org
- Crime In India by S M Edwardes 1924 Archive.org
Other
Deaths of Gazetted Police Officers - India and Burma Police 1888 - 1944 from www.redcoat.info, transcribed from To Guard My People:the History of the Indian Police by Sir Percival Joseph Griffiths 1971, available at the British Library.