Papers of Andrew Parke Hume, Indian Civil Service, United Provinces 1927-47, and other members of the Hume family
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`Hume Collection': correspondence, diaries, papers and photographs of Andrew Parke Hume (1904-65), Indian Civil Service, United Provinces 1927-47, including references to the Delhi Improvement Trust and the Govt of India Secretariat in wartime; of his father Col Arthur Henry Bliss Hume (1868-1960...
Papers relating to press and publicity work on the British position in India, apparently from the British Embassy in the United States; also a memorandum on `A Social and Economic Policy for India', initialled E.F.M.D.
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Papers relating to press and publicity work on the British position in India, apparently from the British Embassy in the United States; also a memorandum on `A Social and Economic Policy for India', initialled E.F.M.D.
Papers of Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Indian Civil Service, Foreign Secretary to Government of India 1885-94
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Durand Collection: papers of Sir Henry Mortimer Durand (1850-1924), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1870-94, Foreign Secretary to Government of India 1885-94, negotiated frontier agreement with Afghanistan (`Durand Line') 1893, Minister Plenipotentiary at Teheran 1894-1900.
Papers of Col Cuthbert Davidson as Resident at Hyderabad
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Papers of Col Cuthbert Davidson (1810-62), Bengal Army 1826, as Resident at Hyderabad 1857-62, chiefly relating to the negotiation of the Treaty with Hyderabad of 1860.
Press cuttings about the Mutiny disturbances at Faizabad and the death of Lt-Col Philip Goldney (1802-57), Bengal Army 1821, Commissioner at Faizabad; and a printed account, dated 9 Jun 1858, by Mary Louisa Goldney, of her husband's death and her own escape.
Pages from a scrapbook of Lt-Col Arthur Kempster Leslie (d 1931), Bombay Volunteer Corps, businessman in India 1878-c1908, consisting chiefly of newspaper cuttings relating to the cotton trade, and the Bench of Honorary Magistrates founded largely at Leslie's instigation.
Scrapbook assembled by Henry Hill (1839-1916), India Office clerk 1859-1900, consisting mainly of letters addressed to the 8th Duke of Argyll (1823-1900) as Secretary of State for India 1868-74.
Papers of Frank Owen Bell, Indian Civil Service 1930-47
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Papers, notebooks and letters of Frank Owen Bell (b 1907), Indian Civil Service 1930-47, relating to his career in Bengal especially his settlement work in Rangpur and Dinajpur 1933-40.
Printed papers and minutes by Field Marshal Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar (1832-1914), C-in-C, Madras 1881-85, C-in-C, India 1885-93, chiefly on the Indianisation of the Indian Army, and the defence of the North- West Frontier against Russia; given by Roberts to Sir D...