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Memoir of the Career of Sir Reginald Michael Hadow [7r] (13/26)
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Foreign Office against^Independence in August 1947. As far as I remember
I had some 5 Departments under me to set up from scratch: Goa (Mr Nehru's
private jewel), Middle East, Research, Conference and one or two more.
One was also alloted Indian trainees and this was rewarding and great fun.
I remember ln particular young Bajpal and Jagat Mehta who both did very
well in later years.
Social life was fairly hectic and my wife and I boarded with Sir Conrad Corfield
the Political Adviser to the Viceroy, so I met many members of the Political
side in his house. He was a great friend of my siser and brother-in-law the
Daunts, hence the connection, [My sister married him in the 1960's some years
after the death of her husband].
It was fairly easy for us on the Foreign side under Nehru - one of our extra
tasks was to organise a mammoth "Asian Relations Conference" which he convened
in Delhi well before Independence. But for the Political side life was very
awkward in view of Nehru's views on and plans for the Princes - Conrad Corfield
left India well before independence a dispirited and broken man. I then moved
in as a boarder with Douglas Currie, the Viceroy's Military Secretary, in his
house in the Viceroyal Estate.
I was in the Secretariat until 2-3 days before Independence. Under the terms
offered on could opt to continue service in India or Pakistan or take
compensation and go. At the time I would have been happy to have stayed on in
India as l could envisage no other career, -Some colleagues in the F & P opted
for Pakistan and were accepted, Tarlok Singh, a friend of mine in the Dept,
whom Nehru had introduced as his Private Secretary encouraged me to opt for India
which I did. Followed a rather awkward interview with Nehru (awkward for him,
not for me) at which he informed me that much as he liked me my face was the
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This file consists of a memoir of the career of Sir Reginald Michael Hadow, which records the following: Hadow's motivation; his education and entry into the Indian Civil Service (ICS), and later 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. ( IPS 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. ); his experiences in Russia in 1942, as well as Meshed [Mashhad], Bahrain, Bushire [Būshehr], Bandar Abbas, and Delhi; his response to Jawaharlal Nehru (Prime Minister of India following independence) declining his application to join the new Indian Foreign Service.
There are two copies of the memoir, the first one has corrections in blue pen, and the second has changes made to the first draft.
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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 13; 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.
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