Part of a document entitled `An information tending to the improvement of his Majesty's or the State's Revenues within the affairs of the Customs House', submitted to Parliament by Richard Boothby, Member of Council, Surat 1628-29, concerning the import and export of jewellery.
Letters and miscellaneous papers of Lt-Col Francis Skelly, British Army, 74th Highland Regiment, mainly describing the campaigns of the Third Mysore War 1790-92; also accounts of expeditions up the Ganges and Indian village life, and culinary notes.
`Ampthill in India: the Second Baron Ampthill's Governorship of Madras and Viceroyalty December 1900-February 1906' by Ian Le Maistre (MA thesis, University of Manchester, 1977).
Four diaries of Ross Henry Donald Lowis (b1905), Indian Police, North-West Frontier Province 1924-36, Indian Political Service 1936-47, containing brief notes on activities as Assistant Political Agent, South Waziristan 1936-37, and Assistant Political Agent, North Waziristan 1943-44; together with explanatory notes, dated 1977; also letters to his sister dated 1927-38.
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Four diaries of Ross Henry Donald Lowis (b 1905), Indian Police, North-West Frontier Province 1924-36, Indian Political Service 1936-47, containing brief notes on activities as Assistant Political Agent, South Waziristan 1936-37, and Political Agent, North Waziristan 1943-44; together with explan...
Volume belonging to Edmund Wilkinson, Export Supervisor, Calcutta Sea Custom House, containing certificates of rupee loans raised by Government of India for the East India Company (`Company Paper'), and showing Wilkinson's investments in the same, interest payments, and related transactions.
Xerox copy of two papers of Charles Frederick Victor Williams (b 1898), Indian Civil Service, Madras 1923-47, Secretary to Agent of Government of India in South Africa 1934-36, comprising: (i) representation received from the South African Indian Congress on the Transvaal Asiatic Land Tenure Act ...
Papers of Samuel Solomon (b1904), Indian Civil Service, Bihar and Orissa, 1927-47, including tour diary as sub-divisional officer Giridih 1929-30, photographs (including an album on the Bihar Earthquake 1934), pamphlets and newspaper articles by Solomon, particularly contributions to The Sentinel (Ranchi) 1935-37, and miscellaneous printed papers.
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Papers of Samuel Solomon (b 1904), Indian Civil Service, Bihar and Orissa 1927-47, including tour diary as sub-divisional officer Giridih 1929-30, photographs (including an album on the Bihar Earthquake 1934), pamphlets and newspaper articles by Solomon, particularly contributions to `The Sentine...
Typescript memoir, dated 1947-48, by Thomas George Hoathley Holman (b 1905), Indian Police, Bengal 1926-47, based on his diaries for 1925-48, and describing his life and career in Bengal, together with personal papers, dated 1899-1926, of Holman's father, Walter Cyril Holman, Indian Police, Bomba...