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'Memoirs and Recollections of An Officer of the Indian Political Service' [43r] (85/156)
The record is made up of 1 file (78 folios). It was created in 1983?. 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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In February 1944, when I had been in the Hyderabad
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
for two and half years,
I was told that, after a month's spell of leave, I was to proceed to Bushire in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
(where I had served during 1937/38) to take up the appointment of H.M.
Consul. Before leaving Hyderabad, I was awarded the M.B.E. (Civil) in the 1944 New
Year Honours List. This, the first of such decorations as I was awarded, gave me as
much pleasure as any subsequent and more senior ones. I felt I had earned it during
those two and a half difficult war-time years. I had served under two Residents while
at Hyderabad, Sir Claude Gidney, KCIE, CSI, and Sir Arthur Lothian, KCIE, CSI, under
whom I had served previously while at Mount Abu.
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This file contains a photocopy of a typewritten draft of Sir John Richard Cotton's (b 1909) memoirs of his time in the Indian military and civil service. The memoirs, which were written when the author was 'in his seventy-fourth year', cover his time in the Indian Army, at Aden, Ethiopia, Attock, the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Mount Abu, Hyderabad, Rajkot (Kathiawar), the Political Department in New Delhi, and finally the UK High Commission in Pakistan.
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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 78; these numbers are written in pencil 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 printed foliation sequence.
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- 'Memoirs and Recollections of An Officer of the Indian Political Service'
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- 1r:78v
- Author
- Cotton, Sir John Richard
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