Stewart doesn't seem to have given us his gt grandfather's name, or the District for which he was superintendent of police. By consulting issues of the India Office List, he should be able to find his ancestor's name in a hierarchical context and discover how many more ranks might be possible! On 15 June 2015 at 02:43, Ian Poyntz via <india@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Stewart Green, stewartgreen372@gmail.com, has asked me to post the > following message for him. He has been unable to send it himself. > > Please send replies to the list, (recommended), or directly to Stewart, NOT > to me. > > Ian, List Admin > > > >> > Topic: Indian Police Pension value in today's terms > > My great-grandfather served with the Indian Police between the years > 1885 and 1916. He retired in 1916 as a District Superintendent of > Police. His monthly pension on retirement was £109 7s 6d. I was > interested to find out how much this equates to in today’s money so I > entered the figures into an inflation calculator on the internet and > it returned a whopping £10 045.63 per month. Could this be correct? > In my own currency this equates to ZAR200 000 a month. It seems an > awful lot of money. > > 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? > > Stewart Green, stewartgreen372@gmail.com > << >