16 SOCIAL SCIENTIST lu TNA, G 0 171, Judicial, I April 1929. 1 8 TNA, G 0 1816, Public, 3 November 1938. * 4 The development of the armed reserves is discussed in D Arnold, "The Armed Police and Colonial Rule in South India, 1914-47", Modern Asian Studies (forthcoming). 10 Ibid., TNA, G 0 1842, Home, 4 August 1943. 1 ft See the Madras Legislative Council Proceedings and Natioe Newspaper Reports for the early 1920s. ' 7 For example, see Madras Legislative Council Proceedings, XXXV7, 2^ March 1927 18 Sec, for example, TNA, G 0 98, Public, 19 January 1938; GO 3920, Home, 10 August 1938. * e TNA, G 0 63, Public, 12 February 1919. ao TNA, GO 904, Public, 28 May 1938; G 0 957. Public, 8 June 1938; G 0 3044, Development, 8 December 1938. 2 l TNA, G 0 4030, Home, 24 July 1939. y2 The conditions of the rank and file are most fully discussed in Statement ... on the Administration of the District Police . . . For the general change in attitude to the conditions of the rank and file of the Indian police in the 19-^Os, see the comments of the United Provinces government in Indian Statutory Commission, vol IX, HMSO, London 1930,pp 117-30. ya TNA, G 0 2872, Judicial, 22 November 1915; G 0 173, Judicial, I April 192^. 24 TNA, G 0 3728, Home, 11 September 1940. aB Statement . . . on the Administration of the District Police. . .; Police Commission, 1902-03. 26 Government of India, Report of the Royal Commission on the Superior Civil Services in India Government of India Press, Simla 1924. y7 TNA, G 0 166, Home, 20 January 1944; Government of Madras, Madras Annual Civil List Corrected up to 1st Januwy 1947., Government Press, Madras 1947, pp 59-70. '^8 See, for example, TNA, G 0 432, Home, 21 January 1938. a9 TNA, G 0 537, Judicial, 23 September 1925; G 0 314, Public (Police), 6 June 1932; G 0 557, Home, 2 February 1938. 80 TNA, G 0 29H, Home, 10 June 1938; G 0 3762,Homc, 12 September 1940