`Dictionaire et Gramaire Francois Tamoul': manuscript copy of a French-Tamil Dictionary and Grammar of the Malabar language, by Pere Dominique, Capuchin missionary and superior of the Pondicherry Mission.
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`Dictionaire et Gramaire Francois Tamoul': manuscript copy of a French-Tamil Dictionary and Grammar of the Malabar language, by Pere Dominique, Capuchin missionary and superior of the Pondicherry Mission.
Typescript extract from the diary of Lt (later Maj-Gen Sir) Thomas Townsend Pears (1809-92), Madras Engineers 1826-61, recounting his overland journey to India through Persia.
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Typescript extract from the diary of Lt (later Maj-Gen Sir) Thomas Townsend Pears (1809-92), Madras Engineers 1826-61, recounting his overland journey to India through Persia.
Manuscript copy, dated 25 Dec 1775-19 Sept 1776, of official diary kept by Capt (later Lt-Col) Allan Macpherson (1740-1816), Bengal Army 1764-91, of the proceedings of the mission to the Maratha ministers led by Lt-Col John Upton (d 1780), British Army 1757-63, Bengal Army 1764-80. Macpherson was Persian interpreter to the Mission.
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Manuscript copy, dated 25 Dec 1775-19 Sept 1776, of official diary kept by Capt (later Lt-Col) Allan Macpherson (1740-1816), Bengal Army 1764-91, of the proceedings of the mission to the Maratha ministers led by Lt-Col John Upton (d 1780), British Army 1757-63, Bengal Army 1764-80. Macpherson was...
Parliamentary Papers, dated 1821-25, on `sati' and infanticide, collected and annotated by John Poynder, clerk and solicitor to Bridewell Hospital, East India Company shareholder, and prominent evangelical, as the basis of his public address to the Company in 1827. (Published London 1827).
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Parliamentary Papers, dated 1821-25, on `sati' and infanticide, collected and annotated by John Poynder, clerk and solicitor to Bridewell Hospital, East India Company shareholder, and prominent evangelical, as the basis of his public address to the Company in 1827. (Published London 1827).
Copy of journal of siege of Onore (Honavar) during Mysore War, by Thomas Cruso (d 1802), Bombay Medical Service 1778-1800, with biographical note (probably by James Forbes) on Capt (later Maj) John Samuel Torriano, Bombay Artillery 1768-88, Commanding Officer at Onore; also Torriano's orders during siege, and account of execution by Tipu Sultan of one of his killidars Rustam Ali Beg outside Mangalore 1784.
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Copy of journal of siege of Onore (Honavar) during Mysore War, by Thomas Cruso (d 1802), Bombay Medical Service 1778-1800, with biographical note (probably by James Forbes) on Capt (later Maj) John Samuel Torriano, Bombay Artillery 1768-88, Commanding Officer at Onore; also Torriano's orders duri...
List, dated 1866, of coins, chiefly Greco-Bactrian, belonging to General Sir James Abbott (1807-96), Bengal Artillery 1823, Commissioner, Hazara 1845-53; also list, dated 1849, of a few coins then in Abbott's possession.
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List, dated 1866, of coins, chiefly Greco-Bactrian, belonging to General Sir James Abbott (1807-96), Bengal Artillery 1823, Commissioner, Hazara 1845-53; also list, dated 1849, of a few coins then in Abbott's possession.
Press cuttings on the Mysore famine of 1877-78 collected by Col (later Lt-Gen Sir) Richard Hieram Sankey (1829-1908), Madras Engineers 1846-84, Chief Engineer, Mysore 1864-77, relating in particular to the controversy in which Sankey was involved on question of the principle on which work should be provided by Public Works Dept for those in need of relief.
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Press cuttings on the Mysore famine of 1877-78 collected by Col (later Lt-Gen Sir) Richard Hieram Sankey (1829-1908), Madras Engineers 1846-84, Chief Engineer, Mysore 1864-77, relating in particular to the controversy in which Sankey was involved on question of the principle on which work should ...
Official, demi-official and private correspondence and papers of Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley (1773-1847), private secretary to Lord Wellesley 1798-1801, negotiated treaty with Nawab Wazir of Oudh 1801, Lieutenant-Governor of Ceded Provinces of Oudh 1801-02.
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Official, demi-official and private correspondence and papers of Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley (1773-1847), private secretary to Lord Wellesley 1798-1801, negotiated treaty with Nawab Wazir of Oudh 1801, Lieutenant-Governor of Ceded Provinces of Oudh 1801-02.
Papers of Robert Needham Cust (1821-1909), Bengal Civil Service 1843-67, relating to his education at Haileybury College, the 1st and 2nd Sikh Wars, and the Indian Mutiny.
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Papers of Robert Needham Cust (1821-1909), Bengal Civil Service 1843-67, relating to his education at Haileybury College, the 1st and 2nd Sikh Wars, and the Indian Mutiny.
Official and demi-official correspondence and papers of Maj-Gen Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Bart (1761-1827), Madras Army 1780-1827, Governor of Madras 1820-27, collected by General John Carfrae (d 1860), Madras Army 1797, when Military and later Private Secretary to Munro.
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Official and demi-official correspondence and papers of Maj-Gen Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Bart (1761-1827), Madras Army 1780-1827, Governor of Madras 1820-27, collected by General John Carfrae (d 1860), Madras Army 1797, when Military and later Private Secretary to Munro.