Once a Happy Valley
Memoirs of an ICS Officer in Sindh 1938-1948
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 1 November 2001
- ISBN 9780195793956
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages534 pages
- Size 212x138x34 mm
- Weight 805 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15pp halftones and 3 maps 0
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Short description:
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. It provides an invaluable record of British administration in Sindh and includes interesting details of the social activities of British officers and their families living in the subcontinent during the Raj.
MoreLong description:
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.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Author's Note
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
The ICS Of Course
On My Way
Still Learning
Legacy from Sukkur
The Last Lap
Really Working
Marry in Haste
The Assistant Collector's Manual
Home in Karachi
Larkana
Ziarat
Mount Khalifat
Viceregal Visitation
Floodtime
Down, Then Up
Jacobabad
The Railways
The Jirga
The Horse Show, 1944
Another Viceroy
Dalhousie
Airborne Invasion
Dalhousie Again
1945
Kutchery Road
The Department
Independence
1948
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Epilogue
Glossary
Index
