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In the context of Assam, Bihar and Bhutan.

Raises important questions about the constituencies and social functions of both public and private police from the 1850's to the 1920's. At first the agency was seen as an alternative tot he police for those fearful of expanding governmental power. In the nineteenth centure, the private police agency could fill the gap left by inadequate public police activity and jurisdiction. Pinkerton agents were soon famous for their incredible success in detecting crime and apprehending criminals. But they were also dislike fro their coercive role in labor disputes and feared for the threat to privacy that detection work in general represented.

This study presents a general history of how journalism as an emerging profession became internationally organized over the past one hundred and twenty years, seen mainly through the associations founded to promote the interests of journalists around the world.