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Lieutenant-Colonel '''Sir Donald Moyle Field''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CIE}} (19 November 1881 – 11 November 1956) was an officer of the [[British Indian Army]] and [[Indian Political Department]] who served as Chief Minister of the [[princely state]] of [[Jodhpur]] from 1935 to 1946,<ref name="Singh1994">{{cite book|author=Dhananajaya Singh|title=The house of Marwar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SktuAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=1 April 2012|year=1994|publisher=Lotus Collection, Roli Books|isbn=978-81-7436-002-1|page=173}}</ref><ref>Biography, ''[[Who's Who (UK)|Who Was Who]]''</ref> the last of the [[British Raj]] leaders of that area. Among the events of Field's ministry was the 1937 order formally granting the request of [[Mali caste|Mali]] community of Rajputana to be renamed as "Saini" or "Sainik Kshatriya" in official records.<ref name ="Jodhpur State Order">Order No. 2240, Jodhpur, 6 February 1937, D.M.Field, Chief Minister, Government of Jodhpur, Jodhpur State Archives</ref><br />
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