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Memoir of the Career of Thomas Edward Rogers [51r] (101/118)
The record is made up of 1 file (59 folios). It was created in Mid 20th century. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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violence. I went at once to the City Police Station where further reports of
rioting, arson and atrocities kept coming in. The scale of the outbreak, which
was mainly in the Hindu and Sikh quarter, was such that the police could not
exercise their authority at more than a few points and as this became clear to
lawbreakers they became increasingly heedless of restraint. In a short time
the situation was out of hand and small groups and individuals were killing,
maiming, burning and looting almost at will. Nor could the firefighting services
cope with widespread fires breaking out in rapid succession and in some cases
feeding each other.
I witnessed some of the many terrible atrocities committed that night
particularly against Sikhs whose women were often horribly mutilated as the mobs
lost all control. As we tried desperately to restore some kind of order, or at
least demonstrate that forces of law and order were still in being if greatly
outnumbered, I recall two or three young British officers, who saw the blazing
town from the distant Staff College, coming to help me like some Midwest posse
rallying to a sheriff's call. Indeed like a posse we must have looked going
about the bazaar in an effort to bring men crazed with communal fury and bloodlust
to some realisation of what they were doing. But there were too many of them and
too few police to saturate a wide area where so many lawless acts were being
committed at the same time. Small units of police dispersed widely could be more
target than deterrent although even in conditions of blind mob fury the common
religion of most rioters and the police protected the latter to an extent but
also tempered their severity. In one incident Henry Oliver, the Assistant
Superintendent of Police (and the only British police officer besides his very
senior chief, H.D.M. Scott) was struck over the forehead with an axe. The gash
lost him the sight of an eye and left a deep scar but could easily have cost him
his life.
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The file consists of a memoir written by Thomas Edward Rogers. The memoir covers his background, education and career. He also records his reasons for joining the Indian Political Service The branch of the British Government of India with responsibility for managing political relations between British-ruled India and its surrounding states, and by extension the Gulf, during the period 1937-47. . The memoir relates his career in India and in the Foreign Service in Bengal, Persia [Iran] and the Gulf, Quetta (including experiences of post-Independence unrest), and as Deputy Secretary in the Pakistan Cabinet Secretariat. It also relates his career with the Foreign Office in Spain, Yugoslavia, Argentina, Canada, and Colombia.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 59; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The file also contains an original foliation sequence.
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