Papers of John Roland Phillips (1891-1932), Indian Police, Bengal 1911-32, including two volumes of manuscript notes, dated 1924-32, for his official tour diaries as Superintendent of Railway Police and Superintendent of Police in Bengal and Assam; a `Report on the Police Administration in the Be...
`Simon go back' black flag used in Congress demonstrations against the Indian Statutory (Simon) Commission: presented to Mrs Carter, wife of Richard Henry (later Sir Archibald) Carter (1887-1958), Assistant Secretary to the Commission, by Sir (William) Malcolm Hailey (later Baron Hailey) (1872-19...
Letters of Maj James Montgomery Vansittart Stewart (1877-1956), British Army 1898-1907, Indian Army 1907-21, chiefly concerning hunting and shooting; also press cuttings and reports of the Bengal-Punjab Rifle Association meetings 1899-1902; and family photographs.
Papers of Herbert James Mitchell (1891-1946), Burmese Frontier Service 1910-42, comprising (1) three confidential printed 'Reports on the Naga Hills Expedition for the Abolition of Human Sacrifice' (1928-29) by Mitchell and Capt (later Lt-Col) Alleyn Cardwell Moore, Burma Military Police; (2) cor...
Papers of Marjorie Ussher as a governess in India, first (1934-36) to the children of a British military family at Chakrata and Jubbulpore, and afterwards (1936-43) to three wards of the Nizam of Hyderabad. In 1943 she joined the Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma), and was stationed with a mobile canteen at Chittagong, Ramree and Rangoon
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Ussher Collection: letters and photographs of Miss Marjorie E Ussher, governess in Chakrata, Ootacamund, and Jubbulpore 1934-36, and with the royal family of Hyderabad 1936-43; Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma) 1943-46, describing her life in India and among British troops during the Burma campaign.
Papers of Sir William Herschel, Bengal Civil Service 1853-78, and his of wife
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Herschel Collection: papers of Sir William James Herschel, 2nd Bart (1833-1917), Bengal Civil Service 1853-78, and of his wife, Emma (d 1873); including official and private papers, legal case papers, correspondence, diaries, household accounts, and photographs of the proclamation of Queen Victor...
Annotated copy of `Forecast report on the re-settlement of the Jubbulpore District' (Nagpur 1927) by Sir Geoffrey Charles Frescheville Ramsden (1893-1990), Indian Civil Service, Central Provinces 1920-47; also press cuttings, dated 1968-71, relating to India.
Papers and correspondence, dated 1947-60, of Richard Powell (1889-1961), Indian Police 1908-44, Inspector-General of Police, Jammu and Kashmir 1946-47, chiefly relating to events in Kashmir during 1946-47.
Cambridge History of India: manuscript chapters prepared for the unpublished 2nd volume, 1922-53
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Cambridge History of India Collection: manuscript chapters, prepared for the unpublished second volume of the `Cambridge History of India', and related correspondence.
Diary, dated Oct 1925, of the tour by Viscount Goschen, Governor of Madras 1924-29, of the Anaimalai hills, Cochin, Travancore, and Tinnevelly, kept by Capt Melville Edward Bertram Portal, British Army, ADC to the Governor, including photographs.