Chapter 3 The Richest Man in the World

It was only now that Sir Barron felt in his heart how important it was to bring up his juniors and add fresh blood to the British Empire’s civil service, for the sake of political solidity.

Alan Wilson, on the other hand, had his own understanding that British India was the jewel in the crown of the Empire in every way. It was more important than anything like Canada, Australia, or even the thirteen states of North America further back, or even all the other British colonies.

As for any of the colonies now under the jurisdiction of British India, they are not comparable to British India in any way, and are purely self-congratulatory to the British for the loss of British India.

The reason for this is that British India was so large that it even relied on its own size, resources and population advantages, and its total economy and important economic indicators also surpassed that of modernized Japan, being the first in Asia, and even more far superior to other imperial entities.

During World War I, meanwhile, the Anglo-Indian government’s revenue was one billion rupees, or about 100 million pounds, roughly half that of the United Kingdom itself, roughly the same as the Japanese government, and even farther ahead of entities such as Canada and Australia and South Africa, to name a few.

This is still taking into account the Anglo-German naval race, the local British bite the bullet to raise taxes, if peacetime, British India’s revenue, but also an integral part of the British Empire.

This led to, British India’s position is extremely important, in addition to Napoleon’s short time, Britain is down in Europe, in the nineteenth century, almost all the time, Britain is for the security of British India to formulate policy, whether it is attacking Burma or northward Afghanistan is for this reason.

If it were not 1945 now, Alan Wilson had reason to believe that civil servants from the British mainland would have traveled absolutely out of their way to work in India, which was after all a colony, and did not have to put up with all the checks and balances of the British mainland, and working in a colony allowed one to enjoy the treatment of a man of the people.

So Sir Barron did give Allen Wilson great convenience, if you go back a few decades, and even can be said to directly let him a step to heaven, less struggle for twenty years.

But now it is different, Alan Wilson understands that British India, the crown jewel of the empire, will soon be out of the control of the British Empire, and now he must take advantage of the little time left, as far as possible, to accumulate seniority and wealth, which is also not an easy thing.

For Hyderabad’s position, he was ready to accept it without a word, and that, although it was a Turkish state, part of the belt of indirect British rule, had very great advantages in it. Take for instance the monarch of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan.

The man’s popularity was worldwide, as he was rated by the United States as the richest man in the world in 1937, and Hyderabad was going to be a starting point for Alan Wilson’s future career, and he wanted it to go smoothly.

Allen Wilson left the Governor’s House, as Sir Barron had explained that he could be allowed to recruit a few assistants of his own, and the work was always easier with the help of trusted people.

Before leaving, Allen Wilson also brought a file bag, listen to Sir Barron said, inside is the British India civil service examination questions, which can not help but let Weilen Wilson sigh, in the end or can not avoid the examination?

But on second thought he was in a relaxed mood, this has been much smoother than previously thought, can get the Hyderabad Commissioner’s position, has been regarded as additional joy, can not ask for too much.

Taking the bus home, open the examination paper, in fact, can already see some from the paper, the real environment of the current British India. For the PML-N and the Congress Party, as well as the relationship between the provinces of British India and the state of Tushita, are the current problems that need to be solved by the Governor General’s Office.

On the other side, Sir Barron was working on the Governor-General Wavell’s persuasion for the Commissioner of Hyderabad.

“A child who can be described as a genius, if not for the outbreak of the war, it might have been the youngest person to enroll in Oxford University in recent years, but it’s still a bit too young.” Governor Wavell asked rhetorically with a frown, “Isn’t it starting to go too well for him to be Commissioner of Hyderabad.”

“On the contrary, Mr. Governor, the Hyderabad Commissioner is much more appropriate. There is a difference between being placed among the provinces and being placed among the native states; the monarch of Hyderabad is an honored guest in London, and according to the agreement between us and the native states, the force placed in Hyderabad cannot be too great, and we cannot do it now; British India has enough to keep a hundred thousand civil servants busy. Like Hyderabad power so strong Tupang, we need to maintain the status of commissioner, at the same time can not go over too much, one-sided interference will also make the monarch of Hyderabad dissatisfied, so Alan go just right.” Sir Barron spoke effusively, skirting around and around, just wanting to make a point that Alan Wilson is most suitable to be the commissioner of Hyderabad, not to be the second choice.

The direction of the war has been very obvious, the Axis bloc has been at the end of the road, but standing in the British India’s point of view, the future direction is still unknown, British India in the future in the end is to continue to be under British rule, or direct independence.

Governor Wavell and Sir Barron, of course, understand that the distant London is also for the British India issue of the fierce quarrel, this matter, not only to guard against the Soviet Union, but also to guard against another side-by-side comrades in arms of the United States, and even to some extent, the United States than the Soviet Union is also more dangerous.

For the 100,000 civil servants in British India, the future was still uncertain, and even Governor-General Wavell and Sir Barron, the Governor-General of British India and the head of the civil service in British India, could not guarantee that they would have a say in the matter.

Under this uncertainty, Sir Barron himself could not see the future, and small irrational arrangements were no longer a matter of great importance.

In the middle of the night, Alan Wilson was still answering questions, and among Sir Barron’s last papers he asked about the supporters of the rule of British India, and after a long reflection he wrote, “The class of untouchables, and the monarchs of more than five hundred native states, and the Congress and the PMLN are the two opponents, and Nehru and Arizona are merely different in their means. ”

“The Congress Party, represented by Nehru, wanted to take over all rights in the whole of British India, while the PMLN, headed by Arizena, did not want to live in the same country with the Hindus, and the two were much the same for the Government of British India, but different for the Pacifists and the Hindus from each other, and this was the conflict between the PMLN and the Congress Party. ”

“It is the untouchables who have certain rights under British Indian rule, and as for the monarchs of the five hundred or so native states, they are happy to maintain their present position, and on the contrary are suspicious of both the Congress and the PMLN. For the state of Hyderabad, to which I am about to go, my mission, on the other hand, is to make the Hyderabad monarchs, the support of British India.”

“Mir Osman Ali Khan, who has the greatest strength of any of the many Indian states, and who is also a pacifist, a minority in the whole of India, even in the Hyderabad state, believes that Mir Osman Ali Khan is quite willing to maintain an amicable relationship with London.”

Who is an enemy and who is a friend is never a very important question.