`Dictionary of rare words, phrases and terms': typescript list of English words with definitions of unfamiliar usages, dated 20 Jun 1927, edited by Basil J Fernandez, Dept of Education, Burma Secretariat, Rangoon. (2 vols, A-Full; Full-Rumour).
Papers relating to a tour of India and Burma made in Oct-Dec 1938 by Lt-Col Anthony John Muirhead (1890-1939), Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India and Burma 1938-39, including a detailed, critical diary containing records of conversations with officials and others.
Papers of 1st Earl of Birkenhead as Secretary of State for India 1926-28
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Birkenhead Collection: correspondence and papers of Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1872-1930), as Secretary of State for India 1924-28.
`Political note on Kashmir Problem': typescript note by S Ali Ahmedshah, Minister of Defence in the `Azad Kashmir' Government, containing an exposition of the Pakistan case on the Kashmir question.
Papers of Sir Theodore Hope, Bombay Civil Service 1853-88
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Hope Collection: papers of Sir Theodore Cracraft Hope (1831-1915), Bombay Civil Service 1853-88; Secretary, Finance and Commerce Dept, Government of India 1881-82; Member for Public Works, Governor-General's Council 1882-87, relating to his official career and including papers on the Bombay Civil...
Papers apparently collected by William Coldstream (d 1929), Indian Civil Service, Punjab 1861-94, comprising chiefly (i) original letters and papers and typescript copies of papers relating to the Indian Mutiny (1857-59); (ii) manuscript histories of, and notes on, the Punjab Hill States (1877-94...
Papers of General Sir William Medows (1738-1813), British Army, Governor and C-in-C, Bombay 1788-90, Governor and C-in-C, Madras 1790-92, relating to the French Islands of Mauritius and Bourbon. (An expedition against the islands was planned in 1793 with Medows in command, but abandoned).
`Political Law, Successions and Policy', compiled by Sir Charles Umpherston Aitchison (1832-92), Indian Civil Service, Punjab 1856-87, Under-Secretary, Political Dept, Government of India 1859-65, comprising manuscripts and prints of documents (1822-64) relating to the Indian States, and given by...
Papers of George Harry Blair Kenrick (d 1952), barrister, Advocate-General of Bengal 1909-16, Member, Governor-General's Legislative Council 1910-16, including papers relating to terrorism in Bengal and to the work of the Legislative Dept; also `Correspondence respecting the Second Peace Conferen...
Papers of Maj Gen Francis William Stubbs (d1911), Bengal Artillery 1847-78, comprising originals, abstracts and copies of documents, including Regimental Order Books and Muster Rolls collected for his ' history of the organisation, equipment and war services of Regiment of Bengal Artillery', 3 volumes (London 1877-95)
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Papers of Maj-Gen Francis William Stubbs (d 1911), Bengal Artillery 1847-78, comprising originals, abstracts and copies of documents, including Regimental Order Books 1790-93 and 1827-47, and Muster Rolls 1801-1823 and 1857; collected for his `History of the organisation, equipment and war servic...