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Language English Place Darjeeling, Bengal Level [32] Fonds

1. EAP880/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP880/1
Title:
Sikkim Palace Archives
Scope & Content:
While it is an archive that represents elite perspectives, the Sikkim Palace Archives, is also the first collection of local origin to be made freely and universally accessible for international scholarship, presenting a perspective of events and characters as experienced from within looking out...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Dzongkha, English, French, Hindi, Lepcha, Malayalam, Nepali, Tibetan, and Urdu
Date Range:
1807-1998
Extent:
89249 TIFF images

2. IOR Neg 3105

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR Neg 3105
Title:
Catherine Henrietta Browne papers.
Scope & Content:
Memoir, dated 1914, by Catherine Henrietta Browne, Marchioness of Sligo (1836-1914), wife of Lord Henry Ulick Browne, later 5th Marquess of Sligo (1831-1913), Bengal Civil Service 1851-86, including recollections of her life in India 1853-85.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1851-1886
Extent:
1 reel

3. Mss Eur B411

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B411
Title:
Fred Pinn papers.
Scope & Content:
`Louis H Mandelli, Darjeeling Tea Planter and Ornithologist': cyclostyled monograph, dated 1985, by Fred Pinn on Louis H Mandelli (1833-81), tea plantation manager, Darjeeling c1864-79, and ornithologist; also letters from Mandelli to Andrew Anderson (d 1878), ornithologist.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1864-1881
Extent:
1 portfolio

4. Mss Eur C379

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C379
Title:
Ronald Hilary Gravds Johnston papers.
Scope & Content:
`One Man's Life': memoir, dated 1980, by Ronald Hilary Gravds Johnston (b 1898), describing his life in the Indian Army mainly on the North-West Frontier 1916-22, and in the Indian Civil Service 1923-47, chiefly in the United Provinces, but with a spell in Bengal 1935-40.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1947
Extent:
333 folios

5. Mss Eur D512

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D512
Title:
George Welby Eaton papers.
Scope & Content:
`The Life, Diary and adventures of Tittlerupshebumpshe': a manuscript account by Lt George Welby Eaton (1840-64), Bengal Army 1858-63, of his boyhood and life in the army particularly at Darjeeling, with illustrations pasted in.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1858-1863
Extent:
2 volumes

6. Mss Eur D1023

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D1023
Title:
Edward John Somerset papers.
Scope & Content:
`Reminiscences of an Indian Medical Service Officer', dated Jan 1979, by Maj Edward John Somerset (b 1907), describing his career in the Indian Medical Service 1938-47, and his life in India as a private practitioner 1947-61.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1938-1961
Extent:
309 folios

7. Mss Eur D1194

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D1194
Title:
Cyril George Grassby papers.
Scope & Content:
Typescript extracts, dated 1936 [and ?1938-39], from diary of Cyril George Grassby (b 1899), Indian Police, Bengal 1921-40, describing his work and leisure as Superintendent, Darjeeling District 1935-38, and at Alipore, Twenty Four Parganas District from 1938; also notes by Grassby on terrorism i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1927-1939
Extent:
1 box

8. Mss Eur E341

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur E341
Title:
Papers of Sir John Tyson, Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1920-47, Private Secretary to Governor of Bengal 1930-35, 1938, 1945-47
Scope & Content:
Tyson Collection: papers of Sir John Dawson Tyson (1893-1976), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1920-47; Secretary to Agent of the Government of India in South Africa 1927-30; Private Secretary to Governor of Bengal 1930-35, 1938, 1945-47; chiefly comprising weekly letters home (1920-47) giving detai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920-1947
Extent:
48 items

9. Mss Eur F174

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F174
Title:
London archives of the Indian Tea Association, the Pakistan (later Bangladesh) Tea Association, and the South Indian Association
Scope & Content:
Indian Tea Association: archives of three related organisations involved in the tea industry: the Indian Tea Trades Association (later the Indian Tea Association, London); the Pakistan (later Bangladesh) Tea Association, London; and the South Indian Association in London.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1879-1982
Extent:
2344 items

10. Mss Eur F266

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F266
Title:
Miscellaneous collection of Sir James David Sifton (1878-1952), Indian Civil Service 1902-37, Governor of Bihar and Orissa 1932-7
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous papers of Sir James David Sifton (1878-1952), Indian Civil Service 1902-37, Governor of Orissa 1932-36, of Bihar 1936-37; including reports on settlement operations in Hazaribagh and Singhbhum, newspaper special editions on the Bihar earthquake of 1934, daily engagement book, scrapb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1901-1958
Extent:
11 items