'Memoir for the Indian Political Service - Scheme by Lieut. Colonel L.A.G. Pinhey O.B.E.' [‎5r] (9/44)

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2. Reason 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.
After my father died in Hyderabad in April 1916 and my elder
brother was killed in Flanders in August 1917, 1 made up my
mind that I wished to follow my father and so joined the Indian
Army with this object in view. I had a long family background
in India - my father, as stated above, was a senior member of
the 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. . and was himself bom in Bombay where his father (my
grandfather) was a Judge of the High Court. His fatner (my
great grandfather) was Surgeon General of Madras. I had two
uncles in the Indian Post and Telegraph, one of whom helped to
lay the cable from Kandahar to Kabul during the Afghan war.
After my mother returned from India, I lived in London with
her and nearly all her friends v/ere ex-India people. We met
many of the Indian Princes and other Indian noteables of the
day including Mrs. Naidu and other celebrities! My mother
also looked after the four children of the then Maharajah of
Patiala and later the children of the Maharajah of /aridkot.
She ran a house for them and was in charge of all their act
ivities etc.
As a result, I felt very much at home when I returned to India
as I had been there as a child and could remember living in
Udaipur and being there for the visit of King George V and
Queen Mary as Prince and Princess of Wales in about 1905*
I was accepted for the 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. . by the then Political Secretary
Sir Stuart Patterson and the Foreign Secretary, Sir Dennis Bray.
On posting to the 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. . I went for training as Assistant Com
missioner in Amritsar to do civil training in Criminal and
Civil Law and Revenue Administration. After acting as 3rd,
2nd and 1st Class Magistrate I took the necessary Punjab
Provincial exams, in all these subjects. I trained under
two Deputy Commissioners, F.H.Puckle and Crump and also attended
the Court of the then District Judge, Alan Gordon-Walker, father
of Patrick Gordon-Walker, afterwards Foreign Secretary in England.
The training was an excellent introduction to Indian Law and
Administration which helped me a great deal in my future work
in Baluchistan and in Ajmer, Rajputana.