'Memoirs and Recollections of An Officer of the Indian Political Service'
Mss Eur F226/7
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The record is made up of 1 file (78 folios). It was created in 1983?. 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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This file contains a photocopy of a typewritten draft of Sir John Richard Cotton's (b 1909) memoirs of his time in the Indian military and civil service. The memoirs, which were written when the author was 'in his seventy-fourth year', cover his time in the Indian Army, at Aden, Ethiopia, Attock, the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Mount Abu, Hyderabad, Rajkot (Kathiawar), the Political Department in New Delhi, and finally the UK High Commission in Pakistan.
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- 1 file (78 folios)
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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 78; these numbers are written in pencil 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 printed foliation sequence.
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- English in Latin script
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- 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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- Mss Eur F226/7
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- 1983? (CE, Gregorian)
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- Persian GulfIndia
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- Indian ArmyJohn Richard Cotton
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- Mss Eur F226/7
- Title
- 'Memoirs and Recollections of An Officer of the Indian Political Service'
- Pages
- 1r:78v
- Author
- Cotton, Sir John Richard
- Copyright
- ©From Sir John Cotton's "Memoirs & Recollections of an Officer of the Indian Political Service"
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