Irrawaddy Flotilla Company Collection: business papers, correspondence, articles, photographs, drawings and painting, of and relating to the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, including descriptions by Company employees of the retreat from Burma 1942.
Papers of Capt Home Peel (1884-1918), India Office official 1906-14, military service 1914-18, including material relating to a visit to India 1912-13 as Private Secretary to Edwin Samuel Montagu, then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India
Scope & Content:
Papers of Capt Home Peel (1884-1918), India Office official 1906-14, military service 1914-18, including material relating to a visit to India 1912-13 as Private Secretary to Edwin Samuel Montagu, then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India.
Papers of Maharaja Duleep Singh and his wife and children
Scope & Content:
Duleep Singh Family Collection: private correspondence and papers of Maharaja Duleep Singh (1838-93), ruler of the Punjab 1843-49, while living in exile in England, and of his wife and children (chiefly Princess Sophia), including papers relating to their travels in Europe, the United States and ...
Correspondence in Malay, Javanese and English, mainly between Sir Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), East India Company servant 1795-1824, as Lieutenant-Governor of Java 1811-16, and local rulers, concerning the return of Java to the Dutch.
Diaries of George Paterson as Secretary to the Naval Commander-in-Chief, East Indies 1769-74
Scope & Content:
Paterson Collection: diaries of George Paterson (1734-1817), Secretary to Rear Admiral Sir John Lindsay and Admiral Sir Robert Harland successively Naval Commanders-in-Chief, East Indies 1769-71 and 1771-74, giving an account of negotiations with the Nawab of the Carnatic concerning the latter's ...
Extracts of proceedings, dated 1765, of the Madras Council, with copies of their correspondence with Jean Law (b 1720), French Commissary in India and Governor of Pondicherry, about the return of Pondicherry to the French; with a copy in French of the Treaty of Mangalore, 1784.
Scope & Content:
Extracts of proceedings, dated 1765, of the Madras Council, with copies of their correspondence with Jean Law (b 1720), French Commissary in India and Governor of Pondicherry, about the return of Pondicherry to the French; with a copy in French of the Treaty of Mangalore, 1784.
Draft memorandum (nd, c1770 ? and unsigned) setting forth the arguments for and against continuing the Dual System of government in Bengal; also draft, dated 23 Mar 1780, of beginning of letter apparently to Lt-Gen Sir Eyre Coote (1726-83), C-in-C, India 1779-83.
Scope & Content:
Draft memorandum (nd, c1770 ? and unsigned) setting forth the arguments for and against continuing the Dual System of government in Bengal; also draft, dated 23 Mar 1780, of beginning of letter apparently to Lt-Gen Sir Eyre Coote (1726-83), C-in-C, India 1779-83.
Papers of Maj-Gen George Lancelot Wahab (1782-1846), Madras Army 1799-1846, and his son Maj-Gen Charles William Wahab (b 1828), Bombay Army 1846-80, consisting chiefly of commissions.
