The Conolly’s in British India
Posted by Labels: British Calicut, Conolly, Conolly India, Conolly Malabar
And their tragic lives
The ICS Collectors of Malabar
Posted by Maddy Labels: British Calicut, ICS collectors Malabar, Malabar collectors
British Governance - Calicut
There is a furor at Calicut these days resulting from the
transfer of a benevolent collector popularly known as ‘collector bro’ and it
appears that this resulted from the differences in opinion between bro and a
member of parliament. I am sure much debate and argument will continue over
this, but then again, it has always been like this. These positions of
administrative bureaucracy though very important for any district are
unfortunately at the mercy of the politicians. One only needs to look at the
career of Malabar’s premier administrator William Logan. He was moved in and
moved out of the Malabar Collector’s position no less than 7 times between 1869
and 1887 till he finally threw in the towel.
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