Description
Mr L.G. Pinnell (1896-1979)
Given by Mr M.C. Pinnell
Calcutta, Bengal, Darjeeling 1919-1947
- Memoir: With the sanction of government describing career of L.G. Pinney before, during and after his time in the ICS. Some insertions and notes are made throughout by Mr Pinnell’s son, the donor Mr M.C. Pinnell. 112pp. plus three pages of introduction.Sections are as follows:
- To go or not to go to Oxford
- Cambrai, October 1918
- Armistice
- Oxford, 1919
- First years in India, 1920-22
- First years in the Service
- Bengal, 1922: a young man’s impressions
- Bengal, 1923-25: marriage, home leave
- Bengal, 1926-29: Dacca
- The Bengal Secretariat, 1930 and 1934
- Bengal, 1930-32: Rajshahi
- Bengal, 1932-34: Darjeeling
- Darjeeling, 1932: Miss Ellen Wilkinson
- Darjeeling, 1934: the Bihar earthquake
- Bengal, 1935-37: Sir John Anderson
- Bengal, 1935-38: Major General Lindsay
- Bengal sketches:
- Sarat and Subhas Bose
- Khwaja Sir Nazimuddin
- Sir Bijoy Prasad Singh Roy
- Khwaja Shahabuddin
- Narendra Bishas
- A muslim country parson
- Bengal, 1937-39: Lord Brabourne
- Bengal, 1939: interregnum
- The training of the I.C.S., 1940-42
- The Cripps mission – Delhi, 1942
- The “Denial of ttransport” – Delhi, 1942
- The Bengal famine, 1942-43
- The end of the Japanese war
- Calcutta, 1946
- Family life
- Memoria
