# How a British police officer turned his Indian postings into pulp fiction

> As his 30-year career in the British Indian police drew to a close, Edmund Cox found himself confounded by a wave of burglaries rippling through the Bombay suburb of Bandora, now Bandra.

- Published: 2026-10-03T07:00:51.577Z
- Updated: 2026-10-03T07:00:51.577Z
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- Topics: Politics
- Involves: A Short History of the Bombay Presidency (1887), Belgaum, British Indian police, Edmund Cox, John Carruthers, Indian Policeman (1895), Kolhapur, My Thirty Years in India (1905), Police and Crime in India (1911), Shivaji IV, Tales of Ancient India (1887), The Exploits of Kesho Naik, Dacoit (1912), the police

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