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Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh Twilight of the British Raj Last One and a Half Decades in Uttarakhand 1933-49 by Tolia R S
Contents: Preface. Part I : British Kumaon: 1. Commissioners and charge notes. 2. Owen to Ibbotson 1933-1935. 3. Ibbotson to Vivian 1935-1939. 4. Vivian to Acton 1939-1941. 5. Acton to Finlay 1941-1944. 6. Finlay to Mehta 1944-1947. 7. Mehta to Shivadassani 1947-1948. 8. M.A. Qureshi to Arif 1947-1948. Part II: Native Tehri-Garhwal State: 9. Jyoti Prasad to Bhagwan Sahai (24 April 1950). Appendices. 10. A comparison and the legacy. Notes on Aabott Mount Colony . Notes on the Tarai and Bhabar Govt Estates. Annexure. Index. Each state of the Repubic of India has had its unique trajectory of evolution and it is indeed surprising that not many states can lay a claim to have a book or a set of books which describes its gradual evolution in a chronological sequence. Broadly speaking the present states, 29 in number, including the Telengana and Seemandhra Pradesh, successor states of Andhra Pradesh, can broadly be divided under two categories, viz., those which were directly ruled by the British Crown and those which were either ruled by some Native Ruler or other foreign country, e.g. Goa and Sikkim. When Uttarakhand emerged as the 27th State in November, 2000 a need was felt to provide it with a set of three books which make an attempt to document its administrative evolution since its administration was taken over by the East India Company in 1815 A.D., Gazetteers of any kind simply fail to serve such a purpose. Edwin T. Atkinson’s three volumes are one such a Gazetteer (1881, 1884 and 1886), indeed a set of monographs contributed by several subject matter specialists.