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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Place Nepal, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 260-882

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 260-882
Title:
Affairs in Various Places in Asia and the Middle East
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 93 of 1840, dated 31 October 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-244 and are dated 13 January to 31 October 1840. Enclosure numbers 20-31, 121-26...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1840
Extent:
1 item (623 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/477

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/477
Title:
File 3443/1914 Pt 6 'Persia: German agents; Documents captured at Kerman'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence regarding the movements and activities of the Central Powers in Persia [Iran], India and Afghanistan between April 1915 and January 1918. The correspondence is particularly concerned with information gained from German papers left behind in Kerman, Persia, and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
17 Apr 1915-21 Jun 1921
Extent:
1 volume (244 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2018

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2018
Title:
Coll 5/58 ‘Flights of foreign aircraft over Nepal’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with alleged violations of Nepalese territory by foreign aircraft. The reports are supplied to the Government of India by HM Minister to Nepal (Frederick Marshman Bailey and later Geoffrey Betham). The papers within the file can be largely grouped under two categories: corr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1937-27 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2041

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2041
Title:
Coll 5/79 ‘NEPAL: SUPPLY OF AIRCRAFT TO’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers related to opportunities for supplying British aircraft to Nepal. Most of these papers relate to an enquiry in 1945, instigated by the Nepalese Minister in London, over the possibility of purchasing de Havilland Dominie and Percival Proctor aircraft. The main correspond...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Dec 1942-31 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2196

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2196
Title:
Coll 7/28 'Nepal: scheme for installation of cartridge-making plant; supply of Martini-Henry ammunition, Vickers-Barthier guns, gas masks, etc to Nepalese government'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding requests for arms, ammunition and related materials and machinery from the Government of Nepal. The following topics are discussed: the Government of Nepal's wish to construct a cartridge (ammunition) factory, and related requests for technical advice from the Woolwich A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1934-17 Dec 1945
Extent:
1 file (230 folios)

6. Mss Eur B234

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B234
Title:
William Wilberforce Bird papers.
Scope & Content:
Letter, dated 11 Jun 1840, from William Willerforce Bird (d 1857), Bengal Civil Service 1803-44, Member, Supreme Council of India 1838-44, to William Butterworth Bayley (1782-1860), Bengal Civil Service 1799-1830, East India Company Director 1834-58, Chairman 1840, mainly discussing affairs in Af...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1840
Extent:
5 folios

7. Mss Eur B310

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B310
Title:
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall papers.
Scope & Content:
Letter, dated 8 Jul 1881, from Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (1835-1911), Bengal Civil Service 1856-87, Foreign Secretary, Government of India 1878-81, to Sir Owen Tudor Burne (1837-1909), Secretary, Political and Secret Dept India Office 1874-76 and 1878-86, concerning the import of arms by the Nepal G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1881
Extent:
2 folios

8. Mss Eur Buchanan

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur Buchanan
Title:
Papers of Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762-1829)
Scope & Content:
Papers of Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, comprising: Journals of his Deputation from Bengal to Ava [Burma], 1795-1798 Observations on Nepal, 1802 Natural history observations and drawings made at the Barrackpore Menagerie Notes, descriptions and natural history illustrations in preparation for Fishe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1795-1823
Extent:
56 volumes

9. Mss Eur C193

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C193
Title:
Henry Ambrose Oldfield papers
Scope & Content:
Vols A-B: Letters of Henry Ambrose Oldfield (1822-71), Bengal Medical Service 1848-68, Residency Surgeon, Nepal 1850-63, and of his wife Margaret Alicia (nee Prescot) (1835-1929), chiefly written from Nepal to his mother; photographs of Maharaja and nobles of Nepal; Vols 2-3: Two volumes containi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1846-1866
Extent:
4 volumes; 1 portfolio

10. Mss Eur C205

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C205
Title:
Joseph Charles French papers.
Scope & Content:
Three notebooks of Joseph Charles French (1883-1954), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1905-32, comprising notes, correspondence and newspaper cuttings on Buddhism, Hinduism and on the history and other aspects of Tibet and Nepal; also proof copy of chapter 1B of `Kangra District 1924-25' (Punjab Gaz...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924-1949
Extent:
2 folders