In Quest of Beauty : a description of a tour of historical sites in Northern India by E. C. R., copiously illustrated with photographs: and In Quest of Sport : a description of a tiger hunt in Nirmal, Hyderabad
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`In Quest of Beauty': a description of a tour of historical sites in Northern India by E.C.R., copiously illustrated with photographs; and `In Quest of Sport': a description of a tiger hunt in Nirmal, Hyderabad.
Pearce Collection: papers, correspondence and photographs of Sir (Charles) Frederick Byrde Pearce, (1892-1964), Indian Civil Service, Burma 1921-47, Administrator Refugee Areas, North Assam 1942-43, Chief Civil Affairs Officer, Burma 1943-45, chiefly relating to the evacuation of Burma and to Pea...
Papers of Hari Inder Singh Kanwar (1917-77), consisting chiefly of offprints of Indian periodicals and newspaper cuttings of Kanwar's articles, including many on the origin of the Taj Mahal, with selected bibliographies of India and the Himalayan Region, Ceylon and China.
Elwin Collection: papers of Dr Verrier Elwin (1902-64), anthropologist and writer living in India from 1927, Adviser for Tribal Affairs to the North-East Frontier Agency from 1954, comprising letters, articles, books, pamphlets, newscuttings and photographs.
Papers of Maj-Gen Sir Owen Tudor Burne, British Army, Private Secretary to Viceroy 1869-72 and 1876-78; Secretary, Political and Secret Dept, India Office 1874-76 and 1878-80; Member, Council of India 1887-96
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Burne Collection: correspondence and papers of Maj-Gen Sir Owen Tudor Burne (1837-1909), British Army 1855, Private Secretary to Viceroy 1869-72 and 1876-78, Secretary, Political and Secret Dept, India Office 1874-76 and 1878-80, Member of Council of India 1887-96.
Miscellaneous deeds and other documents relating mainly to property in India, including an indenture to raise an additional capital of £250,000 for the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China (London 1863), and letters of administration (1916) in respect of the estate of the Maharaja of Vizagapatam.
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Miscellaneous deeds and other documents relating mainly to property in India, including an indenture to raise an additional capital of £250,000 for the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China (London 1863), and letters of administration (1916) in respect of the estate of the Maharaja...
`Tales of the Afghan Border': eight stories by Maj John Charles Edward Bowen (b 1909), Indian Army 1930-34, Indian Political Service 1934-47, published as `Plain Tales of the Afghan Border' (London 1982), with other papers, stories, poems and pamphlets by Major Bowen.
'The Three 'Z's': Zar (Jewellery) Zan (Women) Zamin (Land)': illustrated memoirs of Richard Keith Hampton describing his twenty-five years service with the Bombay Police.
Pamphlets, articles and newscuttings relating to Burma by Bishop George Appleton (1902-93), Archdeacon of Rangoon 1943-46, Director of Public Relations, Government of Burma 1943-46, and others.