Political officer (British Empire)

In the British Empire, a Political Officer or Political Agent was an officer of the imperial civil administration, as opposed to the military administration, usually operating outside imperial territory.^[1] The title was particularly attached to a government official acting as a political adviser to the ruler of one of the princely states in pre-independence South Asia, though it could also designate a kind of special envoy or ambassador (e.g. "Political Officer to Afghanistan").^[2]

See also

• Agencies of British India
• Political Resident

References

1. Frowde, Henry (1909). The Imperial Gazetteer of India (Indian empire - Volume 4 - Administrative) (2nd ed.). Oxford: Clarendon press, University of Oxford. pp. Chapter 2 – page 46–57. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India