Sir C.A. Tegart. Joined Indian Police 1901; Superintendent, Bengal 1908; Deputy Commissioner 1913; Deputy-Inspector 1918; Commissioner of Police, Calcutta 1923-31.
Given by Lady Tegart.
File 11 (continued):
Vol. VII (1916), Vol. VIII (Index, 1906-1916), and Vol. IX (1917).
File 12:
Memorandum by the Advisory Committee, Bengal, 1918. Sir N.G. Chandavarkar and Justice C.P. Beachcroft. The cases of Detenus under the Defence of India Act and Regulation III of 1918. Calcutta 1918. Note on cover presumably by Sir Charles Tegart – ‘Not published’.
File 13:
Report to Government of India from Local Government, on Congress Activities, subsequent to the Irwin-Gandhi agreement; sent by C.A. Turnnidge to Sir Charles Tegart. 51 pp.
Files 14-16:
Annual reports of the police administration of the town of Calcutta and its suburbs by C.A. Tegart, for the years 1923, 1928, 1929.
Plus, File 17: Sheet of printed information on the general situation (on terrorist activities) by C.E.S. Fairweather. Calcutta, 15 October 1936. Part of a longer report – pp. 543-546.
Plus, File 18: Programme of an afternoon party to meet Sir Charles Tegart, 21 February 1926.
Newspaper cutting from The Basumati, 14 June 1927, entitled ‘Riot scare in Calcutta.’
Tegart Papers: Box 3
Sir C.A. Tegart. Joined Indian Police 1901; Superintendent, Bengal 1908; Deputy Commissioner 1913; Deputy-Inspector 1918; Commissioner of Police, Calcutta 1923-31.
Given by Lady Tegart.
File 11:
Secret notes on ‘outrages’ compiled in 1917 by J.C. Nixon, I.C.S. Vols. I-VI, 1906-15. (In Vol. VI two TS sheets with notes of further cases relating to a date subsequent to 9 October 1918.)
Tegart Papers: Box 2
Sir C.A. Tegart. Joined Indian Police 1901; Superintendent, Bengal 1908; Deputy Commissioner 1913; Deputy-Inspector 1918; Commissioner of Police, Calcutta 1923-31.
Given by Lady Tegart
File 4:
The public resolutions passed after the bomb attempt on Sir Charles Tegart 1930 .
File 5:
Copy of speech by Sir Charles Tegart to the Royal Empire Society on ‘Terrorism in India’, 1 November 1932.
Newspaper cuttings referring to this speech from The Englishman; Times Educational Supplement; Liberty; Amrita Bazar Patrika; The Statesman; The Tribune.
File 6:
Miscellaneous papers relating to the attempted assassination of Sir Charles Tegart 1930. (Judgements, statements etc.)
File 7:
Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, many about Bakr-Id disturbances, Lord Lytton, the Bengal disturbances, and Sir Charles Tegart’s efficiency in the Police Department; from New Statesman; The Bengalee; The Basumati; The Moslem Chronicle; The Englishman; Forward; Capital; Amrita Bazar Patrika; The Times; The Statesman; The New Empire; The Daily Mail; Hansard on the Bengal Ordinance; The Commercial Gazette.
Copy of extract from a letter from His Highness the Maharaja of Nepal, to His Excellency the Governor of Bengal, 16 February 1928.
File 8:
Copies of letters (secret) from C.W. Gwynne, Officiating Joint Secretary to the Government of India to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal, September 1923, regarding revolutionary activity in Bengal. (Pre-Bengal Ordinances.)
MS report on Sakyendra Nath Guha 14 February 1925 (revolutionary activities.)
Secret paper on meeting between Mahatma Gandhi and Sir Charles Tegart on 24 June 1925 about release of prisoners in Bengal. (2 copies) TS 10 pp.
Typed note on communal tension and the terrorist movement, the Swaraj Party and the reforms in India by Sir Charles Tegart, in answer to a request from J.G. Forward at the India Office. 18 May 1926. 7 pp.
Typed note on policy towards detainees of terrorist organizations in Bengal – n.d. but after March 1927. 10 pp.
File 9:
Judgment: Emperor v. Dr. Narain Roy and others. Confidential. Printed. Signed by H.C. Stork, Ashutosh Ghosh, Adilizzaman Khan. 27 November 1930. 41 pp.
File 10:
‘Revolutionaries of Bengal: their methods and ideals.’ Published by Hemantakumar Sarkar, The Indian Book Club, Calcutta, 1923.
Tegart Papers: Box 1
Sir C.A. Tegart. Joined Indian Police 1901; Superintendent, Bengal 1908; Deputy Commissioner 1913; Deputy-Inspector 1918; Commissioner of Police, Calcutta 1923-31.
Given by Lady Tegart
File 1:
Press cuttings on the Chowringhee murder case. (E. Day, shot by Gopi Nath Saha in mistake for Sir Charles Tegart, on 12 January 1924):
Cuttings from The Statesman; Forward; The Englishman; The Servant; The Telegraph; The Bengali; Amrita Bazar Patrika; Dainik Basumati; Indian Daily News; Capital; The Mussalman; The Calcutta Homefinder; Weekly Guardian; The Darjeeling Times.
Two photographs of Gopi Nath Saha.
Letters of congratulation to Sir Charles Tegart on his escape from Prafulla Kumar Biswas; S.K. Sen; H. Hobbs; A.K. Fuzlul Huq; E. O’Brien; Hiralal Maj dar; M. Harley; Prem Nath.
Report on newspapers and periodicals in Bengal for week ending Saturday 2 February 1924. pp. 75-95.
2 cuttings of the Bruce case (Bruce was the only European juror in the Gopi Nath Saha trial).
Files 2 and 2a:
Press cuttings on Dalhousie Square case. (Attempted assassination of Sir Charles Tegart on 25 August 1930 by Dr. Narain Roy, Dr. Bhupal Bose, and eight others):
Cuttings from The Times; Liberty; Amrita Bazar Patrika; The Statesman; Morning Post; India; Planters Journal and Agriculturist; The Indian Municipality; The D. I. B. Weekly; Provincial Bulletin (Delhi); The Bangalee; The Basumati; Melbourne Herald; Evening News; Evening Standard; Communist Press; Liberty; Advance.
File 3:
Envelope with miscellaneous press cuttings: murder of Lt. Col. N.S. Simpson, shot by Benoy Krishna Bose; photograph of Benoy Krishna Bose; two cuttings on Sir Charles Tegart; TS expenses account 19-30 October 1926.
