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In 1916, [[Kolkata|Calcutta]]'s Senior Deputy Commissioner of Police [[J. S. Wilson]] introduced ''Scouting for Boys'' as a textbook in the Calcutta Police Training School. Colonel Wilson volunteered his services to the District Scout Commissioner, [[Alfred Pickford]], and in 1917 became Assistant Scoutmaster of the Old Mission Church Troop. Together the two struggled for the admission of Indian boys into the [[The Scout Association|Boy Scouts Association]], which had not been admitted due to a Government of India order against it because "Scouting might train them to become revolutionaries". Shortly Wilson was acting as Cubmaster and Scoutmaster, and succeeded Pickford as District Commissioner in May 1919 when Pickford was promoted to Chief Scout Commissioner for India. | In 1916, [[Kolkata|Calcutta]]'s Senior Deputy Commissioner of Police [[J. S. Wilson]] introduced ''Scouting for Boys'' as a textbook in the Calcutta Police Training School. Colonel Wilson volunteered his services to the District Scout Commissioner, [[Alfred Pickford]], and in 1917 became Assistant Scoutmaster of the Old Mission Church Troop. Together the two struggled for the admission of Indian boys into the [[The Scout Association|Boy Scouts Association]], which had not been admitted due to a Government of India order against it because "Scouting might train them to become revolutionaries". Shortly Wilson was acting as Cubmaster and Scoutmaster, and succeeded Pickford as District Commissioner in May 1919 when Pickford was promoted to Chief Scout Commissioner for India. | ||
As a way of getting around the Government Order, the ''Boy Scouts of Bengal'' was founded, with identical aims and methods. Many separate Scout organizations began to spring up, the ''Indian Boy Scouts Association'', founded in 1916, based in [[Chennai|Madras]] and headed by Annie Besant and George Arundale; ''Boy Scouts of [[Mysore]]''; ''Boy Scouts of [[Vadodara|Baroda]]''; ''[[Nizam]]'s Scouts''; ''[[Seva Samiti]] Scout Association'', founded in 1917 by Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya and Pandit Hridayanath Kunzru and based in Allahabad; the aforementioned ''Boy Scouts of | As a way of getting around the Government Order, the ''Boy Scouts of Bengal'' was founded, with identical aims and methods. Many separate Scout organizations began to spring up, the ''Indian Boy Scouts Association'', founded in 1916, based in [[Chennai|Madras]] and headed by Annie Besant and George Arundale; ''Boy Scouts of [[Mysore]]''; ''Boy Scouts of [[Vadodara|Baroda]]''; ''[[Nizam]]'s Scouts''; ''[[Seva Samiti]] Scout Association'', founded in 1917 by Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya and Pandit Hridayanath Kunzru and based in Allahabad; the aforementioned ''Boy Scouts of Bengal'' and likely others. A conference was held in Calcutta in August 1920 in which Wilson staged a Scout Rally, and as a result the [[Governor-General of India|Viceroy of India]] sent an invitation to [[Robert Baden-Powell|Lord Baden-Powell]], by then Chief Scout of the World, to visit India. Lord and [[Olave Baden-Powell|Lady Baden-Powell]] arrived in Bombay in late January 1921 for a short tour of the subcontinent before leaving Calcutta for Rangoon. Alfred Pickford accompanied them and became one of their closest friends. | ||
[[Image:Indtrim.jpg|thumb|140px|The Boy Scouts Association in India membership badge–note modern Burma, Pakistan and Bangladesh are included in the map]] | [[Image:Indtrim.jpg|thumb|140px|The Boy Scouts Association in India membership badge–note modern Burma, Pakistan and Bangladesh are included in the map]] | ||
