‘File 15/14 Rules & Regulations: Rules and Orders for Govt. Servants’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘File 15/14 Rules & Regulations: Rules and Orders for Govt. Servants’
- Date:
- 1919/1943
- Description:
- The file consists almost entirely of Government of India circular letters, memoranda and published notices, issued mainly by the Home Department, about the rules governing the conduct of Government of India employees, especially in relation to:Public talks given by Government servants and broadcasted by the Indian State Broadcasting Service or All India Radio, 1936-1943;The duty of Government servants in relation to the civil disobedience movement, forbidding them to engage in or influence political movements, propaganda or elections, 1921;The disciplinary action to be taken against Government servants who desert their public duty in the face of enemy action, 1942.The file also contains:The Government Servants' Conduct Rules, 1915 and 1935 editions;A circular in English and Arabic issued by the Office of the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, dated 22 June 1919, reproducing a 1916 Rule forbidding Private Trade or Employment by full-time Government servants engaged in public duties;A circular letter dated 1936 from the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department about rules governing the acceptance of gifts;A note dated 1942 by the Political Agent, Bahrain, approving the receipt of wedding gifts from local merchants, by an employee of the Bahrain Agency;A circular warning letter dated 1928 from the British Envoy at the Court of Nepal about the dismissal of a clerk from the British Legation office, Nepal, for fraud.1 file (79 folios)File papers are arranged chronologically, according to the date they were circulated to the Political Agent, Bahrain and others. They are followed by brief file notes (folios 193-195) which list only about ten of the most recent documents circulated to the Political Agent, Bahrain and added to the file (folios 171-192). These documents are listed by their date, document reference number, folio number and/or a simple document reference number, for example, 24, which is written on the document in red or blue crayon and encircled. These details help to identify and locate the documents in the file.Foliation: numbered 1-47, 161, 167A, 167B, 168-175, 176A, 176B, 177-196. Numbers 48-160, 162-166 have been omitted. The numbering is written in pencil in the top right corner of the folio and is prefixed by the letter ‘p’ for page on folios 33-38 and 44. Folio number 179 is written in red crayon. The numbering starts at the front of the file, on the file cover (f 1) and ends on the inside cover at the back of the file (f 196). Folio 11 is blank. Folio 167B is a correction slip which is partially stuck down on folio 167A.
- Language:
- English
Arabic - Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Extent:
- 1 file (79 folios)
- Rights:
- Open Government Licence
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000282.0x0000bf_ar
81055/vdc_100000000282.0x0000bf_en
IOR/R/15/2/1456 - Is part of:
- British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers