The Last Guardian: Memoirs of Hatch-Barnwell, ICS of Bengal

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The Last Guardian: Memoirs of Hatch-Barnwell, ICS of BengalBy Stephen Hatch-Barnwell (Author) Khalid Shams (Editor) Publisher(s): The University Press Limited (UPL) First Published: 2011 No. of Pages: 363
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Memoirs of Stephen HatchB arnwell provide a vivid personal account, probably the first one by a British civil servant, of the Wrbulent transition of government to the province of East Bengal in the newly independent Pakistan. He provides very candid, insider’s perspectives, laced with typical English humour, of the government and administration of the colonial regime that was in a constant flux He was trained to perform not only the traditional magisterial and revenue functions, but was also required to cope with the Second World War and the tragedy of 1943 famine.. He is credited with the establishment and pioneering development of the food procurement and distribution system. As chairman of the newly created East Pakistan Agricultural Development Corporation (EPADC), he promoted new technologies for transformation of traditional agricultural production system. As senior member of the Board of Revenue, he was given a special assignment to draw up plans for resettlement of the indigenous population so cruelly displaced by the construction of the Kaptai dam. He came to know quite intimately the leading political personalities of undivided Bengal as well as the then East Pakistan, including H.S. Suhrawardy and A.K. Faziul Huq. He played golf with General Ayub Khan and quipped, “when a general becomes the president of a country he is not amenable to anybody’s advice”. He was amongst the handful of British ICS officers who opted for Pakistan.
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