21: Collection to Public Despatch, No.19 of 1858, dated 13 October 1858
Scope & Content:
Colls 1 to 36 consists of papers relating to extracts from a Despatch from the Government of India to the Court of Directors of the East India Company in the Home Department (Public), dated the 11th February 1858, No.22. Colls 37, 39 to 49 (Vol 1) and 50 to 70 consists of papers relating to ext...
Collection to Public Despatch, No.20 of 1858, dated 22 October 1858, on the subject of education
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of the following small collections of papers, each of which has a title page and a table of contents: Coll 1, Expenditure for mats, furniture, etc for the Russapuglah Boarding School, June 1855 to February 1856. Coll 2, Claim for compensation by G H Haugh, Head Master of...
Extracts from a Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of Bengal, in the General (Education) Department, for the 3rd Quarter of 1857
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of the following small collections of papers, each of which has a title page, a table of contents, and an extract from the Education Narrative, No.27, dated 3rd December 1857: Coll 1 (Vol 1), Papers regarding the redistribution of grants to certain schools, October 1856 ...
35: Correspondence regarding the annual allowance of salt made from the Government Golah [store house] at Pooree [Puri] to certain Mutdars of that town, and applied to purposes of Idol worship, and the commutation of the annual allowance of salt into an equivalent grant of land
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.111 of 1858, dated 30 August 1858
38: Papers regarding the services of Thomas Henry Kavanagh, Superintendent in the Chief Commissioner's Office in Oudh, during the siege of Lucknow; and the services of Ross Lowis Mangles, Assistant Magistrate of Patna, in saving the life of a wounded soldier on the retreat from Arrah in August 1857
Scope & Content:
Includes a printed booklet "Personal Narrative of the Siege of Lucknow of 1857" by T H Kavanagh (Calcutta: 1857)