A Life of Our TimesOrient BlackSwan, 1998 - 637 من الصفحات This book deals with the author s work in the administrative services, under the British and in the Indian administrative services. After Independence, the author, an ICS officer, continued to work in the Indian administration and was often deputed to foreign missions. His memoirs give us an insight about several critical moments in Indian and world history. |
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... Embassy on intricate points of protocol , not adequately covered by May . Thus we learnt such esoteric matters as on ... Embassy . The British Embassy had as its head Sir Maurice Peterson , a real old - timer , very set in his ways . He ...
... Embassy on intricate points of protocol , not adequately covered by May . Thus we learnt such esoteric matters as on ... Embassy . The British Embassy had as its head Sir Maurice Peterson , a real old - timer , very set in his ways . He ...
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... Embassy territory Afghan laws prevailed . In our own Embassy a cypher assistant was hospitalised for a gall - bladder operation and a Russian lady visitor was observed daily at his bedside . As we could not take any risks with our ...
... Embassy territory Afghan laws prevailed . In our own Embassy a cypher assistant was hospitalised for a gall - bladder operation and a Russian lady visitor was observed daily at his bedside . As we could not take any risks with our ...
الصفحة 126
... embassy ; perhaps the bereavement had taken place at the Iraqi Embassy and the name of the country had , typically , been misheard . I wished to make an immediate retreat , but being ignorant of a single word of Russian at the time I ...
... embassy ; perhaps the bereavement had taken place at the Iraqi Embassy and the name of the country had , typically , been misheard . I wished to make an immediate retreat , but being ignorant of a single word of Russian at the time I ...
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Going Through the Paces | 32 |
Clodhopping Collector | 51 |
Changing of the Guard | 71 |
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