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Memoir of the Career of Thomas Edward Rogers [12r] (23/118)
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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My District Magistrate's reproof was not unreasonable if hardly in the
ICS tradition of letting the man on the spot use his initiative and invariably
backing him up. We both knew that there were now elected politicians to whom
the aggrieved could make complaint. My action over profiteers and other
instances where I put law and order first exemplified latent strain between
Indian and British viewpoints which would become more marked as the war continued.
I was certainly not moved in my actions by any prejudice against Indians. I had
worked happily for a few hours on several occasions side by side with simple
peasants in public campaigns which the Government encouraged - such as jungle
clearance or destruction of water hyacinth. Originally a seemingly harmless and
beautiful pot-plant brought from California to sell in the Calcutta bazaar it
had multiplied vastly on land and especially on the numerous waterways and
infinity of ponds and flooded fields in Bengal. Some middle or even lower class
Hindus might have disapproved of my action as offending their ideas of class or
caste. Even some British colleagues might not unreasonably have thought that I
was in some way detracting from the prestige which was without question a chief
component of British authority.
Time and again the peace, and the life of police officers and magistrates was
preserved by prestige alone. The sanction of force at call was often too far away
to deter assault by criminals or rioting crowds. Prestige was of course no
protection against the terrorist's gun or bomb, and the Bengal record for
terrorism was sensational. At Midnapur in the three years from April, 1931 three
District Magistrates in succesion were murdered. Among the ninety-seven terrorist
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crimes committed in 1932 was an attack on the life of the Governor, Sir Stanley
Jackson. It was the memory of this widespread terrorism that in 1936 had led my
group of ICS probationers at the School of Oriental Studies in London, when the
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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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