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80:; but may not have been an undergraduate, since his name is absent from Foster's matriculation list covering 1880 to 1892. In 1894 Edwardes entered by examination the Indian Civil Service, one of two candidates awarded an Indian Civil Service scholarship at Christ Church, the other being Loftus Otway Clarke B.A., but Edwardes was named without postnominals. 164:
under Brigadier John Swann β€” fired on the crowd, after Edwardes had requested the use of force through a Presidency magistrate. Edwardes then took steps to regulate Muharram processions. He worked with Muslim leaders to protect the peace. Measures remained in place to 1922. Among those actively
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Frank Arthur Money Vincent, a career police officer, acted under Edwardes as Deputy Commissioner, CID, from 1909, and succeeded him. While Edwardes was in post, the Chief Presidency Magistrate was
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Muslims at it, had historically been a source of public disorder in Bombay. There was serious trouble in 1911. Vincent was out on the streets on the final day. Finally garrison troops β€” the
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In 1916 Edwardes was made Municipal Commissioner of Bombay, but bad health meant he stepped down shortly from the post. He retired in 1918. In 1921 he was recorded as living at Sandilands,
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Memoir of Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit, First Baronet (1823–1901): Late Member of the Legislative Council of the Govenor-General of India and Pioneer of the Textile Industry in Bombay
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A Register of the Scholars Admitted Into Merchant Taylor's School: From A. D. 1562 to 1874, Comp. from Authentic Sources and Ed. with Biographical Notices
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from 1885 to 1888, where the librarian Henry Broadbent was his tutor. His younger brother Lewis (born 1874) was educated at
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cooperating with the police, and mentioned in Edwardes's account, was the Sunni merchant Sulliman Cassim Mitha.
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and controlling disturbances arising from ethnic and religious tensions. He regarded the activism of
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Edwardes had a London post as Secretary to the Indo-British Association, a pressure group set up by
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The Ruling Princes of Indiaβ€”a historical and statistical Account of Junagadh and Bhavnagar
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A detailed autobiographical account of this period is in Chapter IX of Edwardes's
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Edwardes, Stephen Meredyth; Garrett, Herbert Leonard Offley (1930).
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Edwardes married in 1895 Celia Darker, daughter of Arthur Darker of
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The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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As Police Commissioner Edwardes was a noted reformer, regulating
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Memoir of Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit, First Baronet (1823–1901)
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Monograph upon the silk fabrics of the Bombay Presidency, 1900
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In 1895 Edwardes was a 2nd Assistant in Bombay. To the 1901
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appeared in 1921. He edited the second edition in 1923 of
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Kidambi, Prashant; Kamat, Manjiri; Dwyer, Rachel (2019).
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He was the son of the Rev. Stephen Edwardes, a Fellow of
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Milford, Oxford University Press. 715: 713: 619: 533: 356:Commander of the Royal Victorian Order 192:in 1926. He died on 1 January 1927 at 119:, as consciously employing offence to 1304: 1067: 1065: 1063: 1061: 992: 983: 388: 349: 38:, and as an author on Indian topics. 1349:Chakrabarty, Dipesh (15 July 2015). 1322:Chakrabarty, Dipesh (15 July 2015). 719: 706:. Bombay: Govt. Central Press. 1901. 687:The India List and India Office List 684:India Office, Great Britain (1819). 638:"The Universities: Home and Foreign" 547: 545: 483: 451:. Oxford: Parker and Co – via 34:. 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Krishnaswami Aiyangar 260:Kharshedji Rustomji Cama 203: 620:Foster, Joseph (1893). 471:Oxfordshire Weekly News 374:(called Charles in the 311:Oxford History of India 85:census in British India 1040:Masselos, Jim (2007). 1026:The Bombay City Police 958:The Bombay City Police 894:The Bombay City Police 877:The Bombay City Police 847:"Gell, Herbert George" 831:The Bombay City Police 726:. Brill. p. 472. 657:"Clarke, Loftus Otway" 496:10.1093/ref:odnb/33944 315:Early History of India 270:Dinshaw Maneckji Petit 152:, and clashes between 128:The Bombay City Police 52:Thomas Erskine Holland 48:Merton College, Oxford 942:www.gracesguide.co.uk 703:Census of India, 1901 552:Eton College (1908). 534:Beames, John (1961). 340:Richard Carnac Temple 244:Ranchhodlal Chhotalal 186:Royal Asiatic Society 162:Warwickshire Regiment 78:Christ Church, Oxford 1274:Mughal Rule in India 576:(1): 170–172. 1927. 570:"Mr. S. M. Edwardes" 335:The Indian Antiquary 307:Vincent Arthur Smith 288:Mughal Rule in India 32:Indian Civil Service 1435:Historians of India 977:Middlesex Chronicle 198:bronchial pneumonia 113:Bal Gangadhar Tilak 95:. He held posts as 71:Charterhouse School 1430:English historians 1311:. Clarendon Press. 1150:The Rise of Bombay 354:Edwardes was made 350:Awards and honours 97:district collector 1389:978-0-19-806096-3 1362:978-0-226-10045-6 1335:978-0-226-10045-6 1198:W. 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Index

S. M. Edwardes
Indian Civil Service
Bombay Police Commissioner
Merton College, Oxford
Thomas Erskine Holland
Streatham Common
John Beames
Eton College
Charterhouse School
Christ Church, Oxford
census in British India
district collector
prostitution
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Chitpavan Brahmin
Muslims
Sir George Clarke
Sir Edward Henry
Arthur Aston
Muharram
Sunni
Shia
Warwickshire Regiment
West Byfleet
George Clarke, 1st Baron Sydenham of Combe
Royal Asiatic Society
Ella Sykes
Fielden
bronchial pneumonia
Ranchhodlal Chhotalal

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