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Memoir of the Career of Thomas Edward Rogers [46r] (91/118)
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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in the "Times", but he and ourselves worried more about occasionally waylaid
lorries. Support was needed for John Howes' success in winning Persian goodwill
by seeking fair distribution of food imports, feeding and sometimes clothing
poor folk free from a 'battered Caravansarai' he reopened and funding a small
irrigation dam which deserved not to be washed away by unprecedented floods. I
recalled Pat Tandy's orthodox shooting of an antelope in 1941 when American
officers now swept me up into a jeep to down one on the run. The poor beast had
seemly revenge when its adrenalin - rich blood from the chase prostrated us for
days with food poisoning. In 1945 our small community feted thankfully the end
of war with Germany and then Japan. But peace, and a degree of staleness from
eight years without home leave, only strengthened my feelings of anticlimax at
Bushire even if prospects for leave now opened up at last. I left for London by
stages to Cairo where waiting at last produced a slow Dakota which landed me at
Hurn airport on 14th October, 1945.
In April, 1946 I was posted to Baluchistan after five years outside India in
the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. The province had been administered by the Political Service
since 1877 just after the beginning of Lord Lytton's 'forward policy', which
followed John Lawrence's policy of non-intervention in Afghan affairs, and just
before the Second Afghan War. My first brief introduction to Baluchistan had been
during my passage to India by car in 1937 when I met 'Bunch' Parsons and when
Quetta was still recovering from the devastating earthquake of 1935. Eleven years
after it, all senior officials except the Agent to the Governor-General were still
living in the road named after Lord Lytton in the simple but safe quarters hastily
put up after the event. These were long low green-painted bungalows insulated
against summer heat and winter cold (both quite severe) by interior asbestos sheeting
now thought dangerous to health. The four or five rooms of each bungalow were
all in a row and opening into each other but were comfortable except in extreme
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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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