<On another note, can anyone tell me how senior the rank of District Superintendent of Police was in the hierarchy. Would there still have been ranks above him?> To get some understanding of this, please visit the following webpages. The first one is about the post-independence Indian Police Service (IPS), closely modelled after the India Police/Imperial Police (IP). It shows the shoulder tabs of different levels of Police Officers. A District Superintendent of Police is roughly in the middle of the hierarchy from Director General of Police downwards and is the police counterpart of the Deputy Commissioner/Collector of a district. It is interesting to know that that rustic folks knew the DSP as 'Kaptaan saahib' or 'Captain Sir'. The other two webpages are about the Imperial Police of British India i) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police_ranks_in_India ii) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Imperial_Police iii) http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecordsfamilyhistory/occupations/indianpoliceservices/police.html To get some idea about pension amounts of retired police officers, please visit the following webpage from the archives of the sister list India-British Raj. It gives some details about ICS pension around the time in question, the 1920s. i) http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ/2009-11/1258039984 Arvind Kolhatkar, Toronto, June 15, 2015.