An Appreciation of the Family's Involvement with Colonialism and Other Activities
Edward Lawford, Clerk to the Drapers' Livery Company and Solicitor to the East India Company Colonialism Both the Lawfords and the Pughs were deeply involved in India. I had always been quietly proud of my family's connections with India, and didn't question too closely the prevailing narrative the we 'hadn't behaved too badly' as the colonial power and ruled largely by leaving the princely States to run things themselves under the ancient Roman theory of 'divide and rule'. Indeed, I had had some appreciative comments made by an Indian political scientist about the positive role played by my grandfather, Col Archie Pugh, in arguing cogently for joint electorates of Europeans and Indians in the new Bengal Council. Furthermore, my own long business association with India had allowed me to make good friends with a number of prominent lawyers and business people such as S.Venkiteswar...