Once a happy valley : memoirs of an ICS officer in Sindh, 1938-1948
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Once a happy valley : memoirs of an ICS officer in Sindh, 1938-1948
Oxford University Press, 2001
大学図書館所蔵 全3件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book is essentially a narrative of the experiences of a British ICS officer in the Indian subcontinent during the last seven years before independence and the first eighteen months after the birth of Pakistan, and provides an invaluable record of British administration in Sindh. The author's accounts of the conditions prevailing in rural Sindh in the middle of the twentieth century are based on memory as well as personal notes and letters, and include interesting details of the social activities of British officers and their families living in the subcontinent during the Raj. The story is traced through selection and training in the ICS to posting as Assistant Collector and Deputy Commissioner in Sindh, where the author found true friends among his Sindhi and Baloch neighbours. Finally, as Secretary of Agriculture, the author witnessed the birth of Pakistan-he personally met and shook hands with the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and Lord Mountbatten- but found himself a foreigner in a land he had considered home.
目次
- List of Illustrations
- Author's Note
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The ICS Of Course
- 2. On My Way
- 3. Still Learning
- 4. Legacy from Sukkur
- 5. The Last Lap
- 6. Really Working
- 7. Marry in Haste
- 8. The Assistant Collector's Manual
- 9. Home in Karachi
- 10. Larkana
- 11. Ziarat
- 12. Mount Khalifat
- 13. Viceregal Visitation
- 14. Floodtime
- 15. Down, Then Up
- 16. Jacobabad
- 17. The Railways
- 18. The Jirga
- 19. The Horse Show, 1944
- 20. Another Viceroy
- 21. Dalhousie
- 22. Airborne Invasion
- 23. Dalhousie Again
- 24. 1945
- 25. Kutchery Road
- 26. The Department
- 27. Independence
- 28. 1948
- 29. Leave
- 30. Countdown
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Index
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