`The Ashtadhyayi or eight chaptered Sanskrit grammar of Panini': beginning of a translation of Panini's grammar by James Robert Ballantyne (1813-64), Principal, Government College, Benares 1845-61, Librarian of India Office Library 1861-64.
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`The Ashtadhyayi or eight chaptered Sanskrit grammar of Panini': beginning of a translation of Panini's grammar by James Robert Ballantyne (1813-64), Principal, Government College, Benares 1845-61, Librarian of India Office Library 1861-64.
`The Incidents of a Life': manuscript autobiography, dated 1870, by Thomas Lumisden Strange (1808-84), Madras Civil Service 1827-63, describing family background, school days, life in Madras and Malabar, travels in Mesopotamia and Persia, life at Tellicherry, rebellion in Canara, life in Malabar and Bellary.
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`The Incidents of a Life': manuscript autobiography, dated 1870, by Thomas Lumisden Strange (1808-84), Madras Civil Service 1827-63, describing family background, school days, life in Madras and Malabar, travels in Mesopotamia and Persia, life at Tellicherry, rebellion in Canara, life in Malabar...
Diary, dated 1802-06 and 1812-23, of Lt (later Lt-Col) John Pester (1778-1850), Bengal Army 1800-26, recording his military campaigns (including service against the Marathas), voyages and marches. Published in part, and with some omissions, by J A Devenish as `War and sport in India, 1802-1806' (London 1914).
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Diary, dated 1802-06 and 1812-23, of Lt (later Lt-Col) John Pester (1778-1850), Bengal Army 1800-26, recording his military campaigns (including service against the Marathas), voyages and marches. Published in part, and with some omissions, by J A Devenish as `War and sport in India, 1802-1806' ...
Two typescript accounts, dated 1 Dec 1934, by Edward Palmer of the Anglo-Indian Palmer family dealing with Lt-Gen William Palmer (1740-1816), Bengal Army 1767-1816, and his descendants by his two wives, the Palmers of Hyderabad, and the Palmers of Calcutta.
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Two typescript accounts, dated 1 Dec 1934, by Edward Palmer of the Anglo-Indian Palmer family dealing with Lt-Gen William Palmer (1740-1816), Bengal Army 1767-1816, and his descendants by his two wives, the Palmers of Hyderabad, and the Palmers of Calcutta.
List and index of manuscripts in Telugu in the East India Company Library (1836), and a note on the Telugu alphabet (nd), by Charles Philip Brown (1798-1884), Madras Civil Service 1816-54, oriental scholar; also a letter, dated 15 Feb 1842, from him to Horace Hayman Wilson returning manuscripts t...
Manuscript catalogue by Dr Nathaniel Wallich (1786-1854), Superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Calcutta 1817-46, of woods from Nepal; offprint from the `Transactions of the Society of Arts', vol xlviii, containing a `Catalogue of Indian Woods' collected by Wallich; and three letters from Arthu...
Copies and extracts of documents, dated c1809-16, relating to spice plantations in Sumatra, and notes on events 1796-1804 including earthquakes, sales of opium, and arrivals of ships, possibly compiled by George John Siddons, Bengal Civil Service 1803-38, Secretary to the Resident 1812, Acting Re...
Letters relating to the appointment of Dr Reinhold Rost (1822-96), oriental scholar, Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society 1863-69, as Librarian of the India Office Library in 1869; also letters relating to other applicants and miscellaneous Library letters including one from the oriental schola...
Two letters from Dr Johann Georg Buhler (1837-98), Bombay Educational Dept 1863-79, oriental scholar, concerning his presentation of Sanskrit manuscripts to the India Office Library; copy of his `Two lists of Sanskrit manuscripts' (1888) and of Hermann Oldenberg's `Catalogue of Pali Mss in the In...