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Book Description Condition: New. pp. 244. Seller Inventory # 2697233185
Book Description Condition: New. pp. 244. Seller Inventory # 96212734
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Circumstances leading to the foundation of Calcutta. 2. Administrative position after 1695. 3. Company becomes Zamindar. 4. Battle of plassey. 5. Changes in Calcutta police. 6. Attempt to improve the conditions. 7. New dimensions of police work. 8. Police divisions of Calcutta. 9. Reformation by Bentinck. 10. Attempts to make improvements. 11. Calcutta police during mutiny days. 12. The police Commission of 1860. 13. Relation between Calcutta and Bengal police. 14. The police Commission of 1902-03. 15. Effect of partition of Bengal. 16. Changes during Sir Reginald Clarke. 17. Traffic problems. 18. Steven's report. 19. Calcutta during direct actions. Bibliography. Appendices. Index. The Sentinels of Calcutta traces the evolution of the Calcutta Police. The 19 articles which formed the Sentinels were originally written by the late Sabyasachi Mukherjee who worked in the Detective Department of Calcutta Police before he joined the Central Detective Training School Calcutta. These articles were published in the Calcutta Municipal Gazette and P. Thankappan Nair, who wrote the Origin of the Kolkata Police has done a commendable job, not only collecting and reprinting them along with some connected articles of Mr. Mookerjee, Nair thinks that the sentinels will give a short history of the evolution of the Calcutta Police. The jurisdiction of the Police Stations of Kolkata is added to make it a handy reference volume of Kolkata police. (jacket). Seller Inventory # 111704