Narrative, dated 17 Mar 1810, by Lt James Macmurdo (1785-1820), Bombay Army 1801-20, of a route from Patri on the north-east frontier of Kathiawar towards the north-west of Gujarat; the journey was begun on 19 Dec 1809 and its object was to penetrate across the desert to Umarkot and thence to the...
Copy of printed letter, dated 19 May 1827, from Benjamin Guy Babington (1794-1866) circulating, on behalf of the Royal Asiatic Society, printed copies of Chinese maps with English translations showing `the seat of war in western Tartary' (Nov 1826), with extract from the `Pekin Gazette' describin...
Incomplete notes by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762-1823), Bengal Medical Service 1794-1816, employed on several special missions, naturalist; relating to tours through Madras and the southern provinces (1800-01) and the Nepal Terai (1802), with notes on trees, plants, temples, legends, and dynas...
Copies of minutes, dated 23 Apr 1829 and 15 Oct 1830, by Maj-Gen Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833), Governor of Bombay 1827-30, on the revenue and judicial administration of the southern Maratha country, and on the civil administration of the different provinces of Gujarat.
`An abstract report of the Nagari Pracharini Sabha' by Radha Kishen Das, describing the efforts of the institution founded at Benares in 1893 to improve Hindi language and literature.
Correspondence and papers of Lt-Gen Sir Jasper Nicolls (1778-1849), British Army 1793, C-in-C, India 1839-43, relating to the 1st China War, including letters from Lord Auckland, Governor-General of India 1836-42, and Lt-Gen Sir Hugh Gough, commanding the expeditionary force at Canton 1841-42; co...
Commissions of appointment and promotion of Col (later Maj-Gen) Henry Loftus Alexander Tottenham (1836-97), Bengal Army 1853-85, with miscellaneous notes by him.
Papers of the Bombay Committee of the Kabul Relief Fund chiefly comprising letters from Lt-Col (later Lt-Gen Sir) Justin Sheil (1803-71), Bengal Army 1820, British Envoy to Persia 1844-54, relating to his efforts to ascertain the existence in central Asia of British or Indian soldiers taken priso...
Letter from Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence (1806-57), Bengal Artillery 1823-57, while Agent to the Governor-General, Rajputana 1853-57, to his son Harry, with a note from the latter's sister Honoria; also copy of letter from Lawrence to Ghulab Singh, Maharaja of Kashmir, on his offer of a gift of ...
Copy of letter 1178, dated 17 Nov 1853, from Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence (1806-57), Bengal Artillery 1823-57, Agent to the Governor-General, Rajputana 1853-57, to the Government of India, Foreign Dept, on the Karauli Succession case.