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Memoir of the Career of Thomas Edward Rogers [13r] (25/118)
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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list of provinces to which we had been allotted was read out, to utter a
collective cry of sympathy when I drew the Bengal lot. But in fact, unknown
to us, the situation in Bengal had improved substantially towards the end of
1935. The war brought new risks but I took it as all in the day's work when in
trying cases under the Defence of India Rules in Serampore I had an armed body
guard to deter attack on me in court, and on my way to and from it, and I
carried a pistol to deter attack on the bodyguard. But I recall cases where I
had to pass through crowds of many hundreds of slogan-shouting students in
riotous mood when only prestige and a show of confidence that I would not be
attacked allowed the situation to pass off peacefully. I like to believe that
the ICS reputation for justice and fair dealing was an element contributing to
my safety. I cannot doubt that if there had been real hatred and we had been
known manifestly to be tyrannical oppressors, instead of that charge remaining
essentially a political brickbat, we could have suffered severe casualties on
many occasions.
The point about ICS prestige is perhaps borne out by an incident years later
in Karachi when Pakistan had become independent. A few hundred poor Muslim
refugees from India, who had suffered attack and privation on their long
journeys, were huddled wretchedly in a temporary open-air corral which was all
that the hard-pressed Government of Pakistan, itself a newly-installed refugee
from India, had provided as a stop-gap. The refugees were in a dangerous mood
and had been rioting in protest at poor living conditions and lack of accommodation.
I was in a secretariat job at the time with no magisterial powers or even
jurisdiction in such a matter. Yet I was asked to go to the refugees to calm them
down and see what could be done to remedy their grievances.
But my post-Independence job in Karachi was seven years on from my work at
Serampore whence I was taken in 1940 to help with the organisation of Air Raid
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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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