History of Services

The India Office List for 1929

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The India Office List for 1929 The Government of India This volume has been corrected, as far as possible, up to the 1st ' January .1929. It may be explained that the lists of Officers serving in India (pages 7 to 1 1 are compiled from the Civil Lists of the Government of India and the Province Governments published in October last, while the records of these officers given Record of Services Section (pages 489 to 891) are based on the corresponding Histories of Services published in July last. Later information received as changes occurring up to the 1st January last has, however, been used, in t compilation of these sections. In the lists of Officers serving in Jndia (pages 7 to 114) only substanti appointments are, as a rule, shown; the lists contain the names of all members the All-India Services and the Indian Political Service, of Chaplains on the Indi Ecclesiastical Establishment, and of other officers drawing pay o f not less th Rs. xooo a month. The names shown in italics are those of Officers who ; in foreign service, supernumerary, seconded, or employed outside their o departments. To meet the difficulty that arises from the lack of uniformity in India in t use of surnames, Indian names are in doubtful cases twice indexed, and cr< references are made in the Record of Services. Rulers of States are sho' under the names of their States. The principle of selection followed in the Record of Services (pages 489 891) is explained on page 489. The “ Index of Subjects and Appiontments ” is on pages iv to xvi, and t “ Index of Names” on page 890 (t seq. Names in’ the Honours Lists ai Record of Services are shown in the. Index of Names by and “ 3&,” with note prefixed referring to the- Alphabetical Lists on -pages' 176 to 228 and page 489 to 891. It is requested that intimations of errors in the lists, or of omissions, m; be addressed to the Editor of the India Office List, India Office, Whiteha London, S.W.

The India Office List for 1935

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The India Office List for 1935 The Government of India A new arrangement w s adopted for the 1934 edition of the India Office List. Previously, the lists of Officers serving in India were grouped together and followed the list of officers serving in the Office of th e High Commissioner for India, a separate section, containing general information in regard to India, the several provinces and minor administrations and the Indian States, appearing after the section devoted to Rules and Regulations. In the present volume, as in the last edition, the list of officers serving under the Government of India is preceded* b y general information relating to India as a whole, -and the reafte r separate sections are devo ted to each Province (or minor administration) consisting of a brief n arra tive concerning the Province and a list of the officers serving in the Province. A separate section, containing information relating to the Indian States, appears on pages 153 to 161. This volume has been corrected, as far as possible, up to the 1st of January, 1935. may be explained that the lists of Officers serving in India are compiled from the Civil Lists of the Government of India and the Provincial Governments published, either half-yearly or quarterly, in 1934, while the records of these officers given in Record Of Services Section (pages 495 to 942) are based on the corresponding Histories of Services published in Ju ly last. Late r information received as to changes occurring up to the 1s t January last has, however, been used in the compilation of these sections. In the lists o f Officers serving in India only substantive appointments are, »as a rule, shown; the lists contain the names of all members of the All- India Services and the Indian Political Department, of Chaplains on the Indian Ecycle statistical Establishment, and of other officers drawing substantive ay of not less than Rs. 1,000 a month. The names shown in italics are those of Officers who' are on long leave, on leave pending retirement, in foreign service, supernumerary, seconded, or employed outside their own departments. Indian names in the lists of officers are indexed as in the Civil Lists. As a general rule, the last name is treated as a surname in the case of Hindus and the first in the case of Muhammadans. To meet the difficulty that arises from the lack of uniformity in India in the use of surnames, Indian names are in doubtful cases twice indexed, and cross-references are made in the Kaiser-i-Hind and Alphabetical Honours lists and in the Record of Services. Rulers of Sta te s are shown under the names of their States. T he principle of selection followed in the Record of Services is explained on page 493-The " In d e x -of Subjects and Appointments ” is on page iv to x vi, and the “ Index of Names ” on page 953 et seq. Unless they appear elsewhere in the volume, names in the lists relating to the Indian Orders (pages 193 to 216) and the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal (pages 216 to 226), the Alph ab e tical Honours L is t (pages 227 to 274), and in the Record of Services (pages 495 to 942) are omitted from the Index of Names.

Parochial Annals of Bengal : a History of the Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment of the Honourable East India Company in the 17th & 18th Countries in 1901

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Parochial Annals of Bengal : a History of the Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment of the Honourable East India Company in the 17th & 18th Countries in 1901 Hyde, Henry Barry The present compilation attempts to bring together all notices that could be collected from the records of. the East India Company relating to its Chaplains in Bengal during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, supplementing them from all available contemporaneous documents. The local records of the Company were almost entirely destroyed in the sack of Calcutta by the Nawab’s army in 1756. From that year until the time of Mr. Warren Hastings’ Governor- Generalship, they are very meagre, but from thence onwards they rapidly improve in extent and completeness. 'The local records include the Parish Registers of Calcutta, and after 1787 the vestry minutes of the Presidency Church. Up to 1756 the student-of Bengal affairs has to rely almost exclusively upon the minutes of court, the correspondence and the duplicate diaries and consultation books preserved among the Company’s records in the ■ Indi^ Office, Westminster. These have been minutely searched for the writer by iiis father, Mr. H. B. Hyde, f .s .s . Having little else than secular sources to draw from, it < cannot be expected that the purely pastoral work of the Company’s Chaplains can now be traced: even ‘ Spiritual Duties’ Berks’ did not exist in Bengal before the Bishopric. Nevertheless enough of evidence exists to show that the colony of the Church of England in Bengal fairly reflected, generation by generation, the prevailing type of religious thought at home. Thus a protestant Whig ministered in Bengal in the time of William of Orange, the old High Church spirit surviving nevertheless at least to the middle of the eighteenth century. About thfit time the National Church entered the very drearest period of her chequered history: nevertheless, it is hut fair to maintain that even throughout the thirty years in which Clive and Hastings are the commanding figures, there is evidence of religious •vitality in Bengal that is remarkable in so unspiritual a generation. But the evangelical movement was making headway at home, and soon Chaplains were sent out, disciples of Wesley and of Simeon, wh'o propagated their principles of devotion under the Divine blessing among the English in Bengal. In studying the scanty memorials here presented, four things should in fairness be borne in mind. The first of these is that clergymen of the Georgian period, when English religion had receded furthest from the Catholic ideals of the Church, must not be judged by the standards of zeal, piety, and canonical obedience now happily everywhere again recognized. In the next place, as the reader with an Indian experience will readily admit* they must have shared like other Englishmen in the tendency to moral as well as physical exhaustion inseparable from an enervating climate. Further, that they lived remote from all access to the fellowship of their brethren in the priesthood and from the supervision of their Diocesan, the Bishop of London, an isolation which, until pensions and furloughs began to be granted to Chaplains at the end of the eighteenth century, was for most of their number a lifelong misfortune. In the fourth place, their salaries were for' a whole century so small that many of them must, like other superior servants of the Company, have engaged in commercial investments to obtain a syfficient livelihood and to provide for their widows and orphans. It*is often supposed that the Company’s Chaplains made fortunes by trade. This is a point on which available documents might be expected to exhibit evidence. These pages faithfully present the whole of such evidence, and it amounts to this: two only of the Bengal Chaplains of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries can be shown to have practised direct trade, thfit is, the buying and selling of merchandize. Of these, the earlier (Evans) died an eminent Bishop, and left the whole of his fortune to the service of the Church; the later (Butler) wholly failed in his speculations and died nearly insolvent. If the rest traded in any sense, it was probably only by subscribing year by year to joint-stock adventures. None of these? appear to have enjoyed more than a moderate income from all sources. It is not until the golden age, when all,the servants of the Company shared in monopolies and perquisites, that we hear of any Chaplain dying or retiring a wealthy man, and-of these, one at least (Owen) was as averse on principle to anything like clerical trading as any High Churchman could be. In the following chapters the writer has incorporated the contents of papers contributed by him to the Indian Church Quarterly Review and to the Proceedings o f the Asiatic Society at Calcutta, to the Indian Churchman, and to the Englishman newspaper. He records his thanks for assistance obligingly afforded to him by (amongst many others) Mr. H. Beveridge, i.c.s., retired; to Mr. Frederick Danvers and Mr. William Foster of the India Office; Mr. W. Banks Gwyther, Under-Secretary to the Government of Bengal in the D. P. W .; Mr. P . Dias, Librarian of the Imperial Library, Calcutta; Mrs. and the Rev, Mr. Frank Penny, L.L.M ., of Fort St. George; Mr. A. T. Pringle, Assistant Secretary to the Government of Fort St. George, and Mr. C. R. Wilson, M .A . , of the Bengal Education Department,

History of Services of Gazetted Officers Part-I, 1965

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History of Services of Gazetted Officers Part-I, 1965 The Government of East Pakistan