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'Memoirs and Recollections of An Officer of the Indian Political Service' [56r] (111/156)
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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satisfactory the holders would retain their entitlement to their monies; if not, they
were liable to forfeiture. All Indian States were asked to co-operate with the Central
Government by taking similiar action vis a vis their own subjects. Inevitably there was
consternation in the many quarters where profiteering had been rife. How the matter
turned out I have no way of telling as I went on leave shortly after. But many years
later (in fact only two or three months ago as I write) the son of a certain Ruler
whom I had known in the old days and who I believe was quite innocent himself of any
misdemeanour in this respect, told me that, to his certain knowledge, several of the
Kathiawar Princes - especially some of those with sea ports of their own - had made
massive fortunes for themselves out of profiteering and smuggling. He added that, at
the time of the promulgation of the Ordinance, these Rulers had evolved ways of evading
its provisions by exempting themselves from their implementation. What happened to them
and their hoards eventually, I have no means of telling, but certainly, after Independ
ence, our Indian successors in Government proved to be much harder on the Princely Order
than ever the British had been.
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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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- ©From Sir John Cotton's "Memoirs & Recollections of an Officer of the Indian Political Service"
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