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'Memoir for the Indian Political Service - Scheme by Lieut. Colonel L.A.G. Pinhey O.B.E.' [6r] (11/44)
The record is made up of 1 file (22 folios). It was created in after 1957. 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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- 5 -
3« Outline of Career
September 1927 -
approx April 1929
April 1929
April -
October 1930
November 1930 -
September 1931
September 1931 -
March 1933
March 1933 -
April 1936
April 1936 -
April 1937
April 1937 -
September 1937
September 1937 -
April 1940
1940 - 1943
1943 - 1945
1945
April 1945 -
August 1947
April 1947 -
August 1947
in 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.
.
Training in Amritsar, F.H.Puckle & Crump.
Assistant
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
,
Loralai, Baluchistan, H.D.Gr.Law.
Undersecretary and Personal Assistant
to A.G.G., Baluchistan, in Quetta and
Sibi - Sir Beauchamp St.John.
Asst. P.A. Quetta - R.E.L.Wingate
Asst. P.A. Sibi - C.P.Skrine
A.P.A.Quetta - R.E.L Wingate. After
the Parley Freer abduction by Afghans.
Home leave.
Married July 1931*
Vice Consul Zahidan, E.Persia.
Asst. Commissioner, Ajmer, Rajputana
under Gibson, Geoffrey Betham, Galbraith
And Gidney.
Additional P.A.Quetta after the Earthquake.
Wrote the Quetta Earthquake Report.
Home leave
Secretary to the A.G.G. - Parsons Sc Metcalfe
Short spell as P.A. in Quetta.
Wazir
Minister.
-i-Azam, Kalat State
P.A.Sibi.
Short 2 months leave.
P.A.Eastern Rajputana States at
Bharatpur, Kotah, Dholpur, Karauli, Bundi.
In addition P.A.Jaipur, Alwar,Kishengarh,
Tonk. All this time R.R.Burnett was
A.G.G.Rajputana.
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A memoir written by Lieutenant-Colonel Louis Alexander Gordon Pinhey about his career in 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. ), 1927-47. The memoir details:
- His education, early career and reasons for joining 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.
- A description of Baluchistan, where he served as Assistant Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , 1929-30
- A description of Zahidan [Zahedan], where he served as Vice-Consul, 1931-33
- A description of Ajmer, Rajputana [Rajasthan], where he served as Assistant Commissioner, 1933-36
- An account of an earthquake that struck Quetta on 31 May 1935
- A description of Kalat State, where he served as Wazir Minister. -i-Azam [Chief Minister] to Sir Ahmed Yar Khan, Khan of Kalat.
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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 22; 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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- 'Memoir for the Indian Political Service - Scheme by Lieut. Colonel L.A.G. Pinhey O.B.E.'
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- 1r:22v
- Author
- Pinhey, Louis Alexander Gordon
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