Draft account by Sgt William Britchford Burnett, Royal Artillery, of experiences in the Indian Mutiny including first relief of Lucknow, and capture of Cawnpore, Fatehgarh and Kamptee, based on a letter, dated Cawnpore 11 Dec 1857, with later emendations; also letter dated 12 Aug 1858, describing...
Diaries of Capt (Later Lt-Col) Gervas Selwyn Eyre, Indian Army 1869, served in Burma Commission 1879-1920; kept while Civil Officer in charge of Pagan Division.
Copy of transcript of proceedings in the trial, on 4 Jun 1940, of Udham Singh for the murder of Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer (1864-1940), Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab 1913-19.
Copies from three letters from Cherie Crowley (nee Walmsley), describing her experiences as a sixteen year old girl during her trek out of Burma as far as Myitkhina, where she was captured by the Japanese, subsequent experiences, and rescue by the Gurkhas.
`Memorandum on the employment of an Indian Force in Egypt, its organization and strength, and the information which is required': paper by Capt (later Lt-Gen Sir) Edwin Henry Hayter Collen (1843-1911), Indian Army, 1st Assistant Military Secretary, Government of India, written while on secondment to the Intelligence Branch, Quartermaster-general's Dept Horse Guards, London.
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`Memorandum on the employment of an Indian Force in Egypt, its organization and strength, and the information which is required': paper by Capt (later Lt-Gen Sir) Edwin Henry Hayter Collen (1843-1911), Indian Army, 1st Assistant Military Secretary, Government of India, written while on secondment...
`Louis-Francois Jacolliot (1837-1890): essai biographique' by Daniel Caracostea on Jacolliot, magistrate at Pondicherry 1865- 67 and Chandernagore 1867-68, lecturer and writer on India; also shorter English version.
Letter, dated 21 Nov 1873, from Rev George Percy Badger (1815-88), chaplain and oriental scholar, to Hyde Clarke, commenting on the need to persuade Muslims in India that their position was as good as their co-religionists' in Turkey in order to cement their wavering loyalty to British rule; also...
Letter from Nanjo Bunyu (1849-1927), Japanese priest and scholar, sent to study in England 1876, studied Sanskrit under Max Muller from 1879, lecturer in Sanskrit at Tokyo and Shinshu Universities; to Reinhold Rost, Librarian of the India Office Library, asking to borrow several works from th...