Sir Louis Kershaw, Indian Civil Service 1890-1915, and India Office official 1915-34
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Official, personal and business correspondence and papers of Sir Louis James Kershaw (1869-1947), Indian Civil Service 1890-1915, India Office official 1915-34, Deputy Under-Secretary of State for India 1933-34, Company Director.
Papers of General Sir John Fowler Bradford (1805-89), Bengal Cavalry 1821-76, including correspondence on military matters and diaries kept while campaigning and in retirement; also papers, dated 1880-1904, of his nephew[?] Maj-Gen Edward Robert Prevost Woodgate (1845-1900), British Army.
Papers of General Sir James Lillyman Caldwell (1770-1863), Madras Engineers 1788-1837, including letter book kept while surveying in the Northern Circars and other parts of the Madras Presidency 1794-97.
Correspondence and related papers between Charles Murray Ker (b 1906), Indian Civil Service, United Provinces 1930-47; Mahavir Tyagi (1899-1980), Indian Nationalist Minister, Government of India 1951-57, 1964-66; and his grandson Anil Nauriya; mostly about Tyagi's life; with copy of his memoirs i...
Papers of Alan William Flack, Indian Civil Service, Bihar 1937-47
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Flack Collection: correspondence, papers and photographs of Alan William Flack (1913-82), Indian Civil Service, Bihar 1937-47, including papers relating to his terms of employment and career in India, notes for his exams as an ICS probationer, an account of his journey to India by car in 1937, an...
Diaries, photographs ,miscellaneous papers and copies of articles of Hubert Cecil Gotts (b1901), illustrating his life and career in India and Burma 1921-54, as an employee of Cox and Company in various branches of their bank, chiefly Bombay, Calcutta and Rangoon.
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Diaries, photographs, miscellaneous papers, and copies of articles of Hubert Cecil Gotts (b 1901), illustrating his life and career in India and Burma 1921-54, as an employee of Cox & Company in various branches of their bank, chiefly Bombay, Calcutta and Rangoon.
Memoir, dated 1984, by Walter Smith Sutherland Mackay (b 1904), describing his career as an assistant manager 1924-32, manager 1932-46, and assistant general manager 1946-57, in the High Range Tea Estates of Travancore; also correspondence with Dr T J Nossiter on the latter's book `Communism in K...
Memoir and articles by Ramaswami Ayyangar Gopalaswami (b 1902), Indian Civil Service, Madras 1927-47, Indian Administrative Service 1948-63: `Administration in India: a brief account of personal experiences during the last twenty years of British rule and the first fifteen years of Independence' ...
Papers of William Harold Adrian Rich (1908-89), Indian Police, Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province 1928-47
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The collection includes a typescript history of the Punjab Police in three parts: I `Police Administration and Procedures...Punjab 1929-1939'; II `The Punjab Police before 1861'; III `The story of James Thomas Christie of the Punjab Police 1861-1896'; with related correspondence and miscellaneous...