Papers of Richard Chicheley Plowden (1743-1830), Bengal Civil Service 1780-88, East India Company Director 1803-29; and William Henry Chicheley Plowden (1787-1880), Company servant at Canton 1805-34, Director 1841-53; including patronage books; lists of East India Company proprietors annotated to...
Notes and newspaper cuttings, chiefly relating to Indian agriculture, made by Leonard E Humphreys, Agriculture Department, Sudan 1924-46, while on a private visit to India 1947-48, with a retrospective note, dated 1985.
Papers of Col Claude Hugh Morley Toye (b 1917), British Army 1939, as acting chief intelligence officer, Burma Command, relating chiefly to political affairs in Burma; also note by Toye, dated 1985, entitled `Arms in the Lake' on certain of the events surrounding the murder of Aung San.
Typescript copy of `Memorandum on the Act for the Better Government of India', dated Nov 1880, by Sir Henry James Sumner Maine (1822-88), Member, Council of India 1871-88.
Papers of John Coldwell Griffiths, Indian Civil Service, Madras
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Griffiths Collection: letters and papers of John Coldwell Griffiths (b 1913), chiefly relating to his life in the Indian Civil Service, Madras 1937-48; also memoir, dated 1985, on his career in India and from 1951 to 1982 as an administrator and judge in Malaya, Singapore, Northern and Southern R...
Extract from despatch, dated 19 Feb 1837, from Sir Henry Ricketts (1802-86), Bengal Civil Service 1821-60, Commissioner of Cuttack 1836-39, to the Government of India, on the practice of human sacrifice among the Khonds, written at the outset of his campaign to suppress the custom.
Originals and copies of correspondence and papers of or relating to Rev Charles Freer Andrews (1871-1940), Anglican missionary, associate of M K Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, reflecting his religious and political activities
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Originals and copies of correspondence and papers of or relating to Rev Charles Freer Andrews (1871-1940), Anglican missionary, associate of M K Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, reflecting his religious and political activities; collected at various dates by Agatha Harrison, Marjorie Sykes and Hug...
Papers of Brig Frank McCallum (1900-83), 9th Gurkha Rifles 1918-48, of his father-in-law General Sir George de Symons Barrow (1864-1959), Indian Army 1886-1929, and of Sybilla, Lady Barrow, reflecting their military careers and social life.
Diaries of Miss (Helen) Diana Hunt (1920-85), settler and warden of the Missionary Settlement for University Women, Bombay 1951-71; Christmas Letters from Diana Hunt (1957-83) (1986); typescript letters to her mother 1951-71 edited by her brother; letters to her from Indian friends; article on Sir Robert Grant (1780-1838) and the Grant Medical College (1980); photographs and slides.
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Diaries of Miss (Helen) Diana Hunt (1920-85), settler and warden of the Missionary Settlement for University Women, Bombay 1951-71; Olive Cardwell (ed), `Christmas Letters from Diana Hunt' 1957-83 (1986); typescript letters to her mother 1951-71 edited by her brother; letters to her from Indian f...