Robert Nathan (Indian Civil Servant) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Robert Nathan, KCSI, CIE (1868-1921) was an Indian Police Officer notable for his works against the Indian revolutionaries in Bengal, Britain and North America. Nathan was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, before joining the Indian Civil Service in 1888. He was appointed secretary of the Indian Universities Commission in 1902, and Private Secretary to the Viceroy, Lord Curzon, in 1905. In 1907 Nathan was made Chief Secretary to the Government of Eastern Bengal and Assam, and Commissioner of Dhaka Police. In 1908, Nathan, then the Police Commissioner of Dhaka, was responsible along with the district collector H.L. Salkeld for uncovering the revolutionary organisation of the Anushilan Samiti, and for instituting the measures to suppress the organisation.