مذكرة عن السيرة المهنية للسير توماس إدوارد روجرز [و‎‎١] (١١٨/١)

T.E. ROGERS
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As the memoir sought by the India Office Library is to cover background,
educational career, work ( in my case, ICS) prior to joining the
Political Service and the reasons for joining it, I hope that the
" historians of India" and the "future generations" which the Library
refers to may accept my relatively ample treatment of these points before
I turn to my six years in the Political. It may, for example, be useful if
I show the travel-keen boy who promised the travel-ready Political
man and how his baptism of communal fire in Ulster prepared him for Indian
conditions and influenced him ultimately towards support for Pakistan.
Besides, when I entered the ICS in 1936 it was explicit that British
rule in India might cease within a relatively short time. Entrants
could not count on more than a broken half-career or less. How therefore
the failing impetus and lustre of past empire still drew in one
particular recruit may be of interest.
In describing my time in the Persian Gulf, almost 5 of my 6 years, it has
seemed unnecessary to provide the historical and organisational background
available in Sir Terence Creagh Coen's "Indian Political Service" (Chatto and
Windus. 1971).