This is a composite volume including:####Correspondence (1839-79) of Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814-83), Bombay Army 1836-42, Professor of Hindustani, Haileybury 1845-58 on 1st Afghan War and relations with neighbouring states. Was J731####Copy of a letter, dated 21 Feb 1799, from the Registrar of the Court of Nizamat Adalat to the Judges of the Court of Circuit, Patna Division, giving instructions for the further examination of witnesses in a Gaya murder case. Was J786.####Copy of testimoni...
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This is a composite volume including: Correspondence (1839-79) of Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814-83), Bombay Army 1836-42, Professor of Hindustani, Haileybury 1845-58 on 1st Afghan War and relations with neighbouring states. Was J731 Copy of a letter, dated 21 Feb 1799, from the Registrar of ...
J J Walker; Edmund Charles Vibart; Hugh Lowman Pester; Nawab of Arcot Muhammad Ali; George Augustus Francis Rawdon-Hastings; John Flaxman; Sir Frederick Lance papers.
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This is a composite volume including: Three original letters from the Nawab of Arcot to George III, the Earl of Shelburne and Lord North, complaining of the conduct of Lord Macartney as Governor of Madras. Was J780. Deed executed by George Augustus Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hast...
Verbatim report of the second session, 21 Apr-8 Jul 1789 (36th-54th days), of the trial of Warren Hastings (1732-1818), Governor of Bengal 1772-74 and Governor-General 1774-85, which dealt in part with the sixth charge respecting presents.
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Verbatim report of the second session, 21 Apr-8 Jul 1789 (36th-54th days), of the trial of Warren Hastings (1732-1818), Governor of Bengal 1772-74 and Governor-General 1774-85, which dealt in part with the sixth charge respecting presents.
Business letters from Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1803), Judge of Supreme Court, Calcutta 1774, Chief Justice 1791-99, and from Frances Lady Chambers (1737-1803), to Messrs Raikes and Company.
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Business letters from Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1803), Judge of Supreme Court, Calcutta 1774, Chief Justice 1791-99, and from Frances Lady Chambers (1737-1803), to Messrs Raikes and Company.
Copies, made c1794, of an `Account of the Andamans' and of other documents collected c1792, by Capt (later Lt-Gen) Alexander Kyd (1754-1826), Bengal Engineers 1775-1826, who constructed fortifications on the Andaman Islands; also drawings relating to the Andamans and Penang.
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Copies, made c1794, of an `Account of the Andamans' and of other documents collected c1792, by Capt (later Lt-Gen) Alexander Kyd (1754-1826), Bengal Engineers 1775-1826, who constructed fortifications on the Andaman Islands; also drawings relating to the Andamans and Penang.
Translation from the Persian, made c1850, of reports made by Mughal Beg to his employer Lt (later Lt-Col) Francis Wilford (c1761-1822) in 1790 on a series of journeys made in the preceding years in the Punjab, north west India, Afghanistan and Central Asia. (Cf Wilford's references to Mughal Beg in `Asiatic Researches', vol xiv).
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Translation from the Persian, made c1850, of reports made by Mughal Beg to his employer Lt (later Lt-Col) Francis Wilford (c1761-1822) in 1790 on a series of journeys made in the preceding years in the Punjab, north west India, Afghanistan and Central Asia. (Cf Wilford's references to Mughal Beg ...
`The Ackbal Naameh by Moatimud Khan': translation by Capt James Macmurdo (1785-1820), Bombay Army 1801-20, of a Persian manuscript `Iqbal-Namah' by Mu'tamad Khan, an officer of the Mogul Empire, describing the reign (1605-27) of the Emperor Jehangir.
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`The Ackbal Naameh by Moatimud Khan': translation by Capt James Macmurdo (1785-1820), Bombay Army 1801-20, of a Persian manuscript `Iqbal-Namah' by Mu'tamad Khan, an officer of the Mogul Empire, describing the reign (1605-27) of the Emperor Jehangir.
`A Memoir on the Zilla of Baroche [Broach], being the result of a Revenue, Statistical, and Topographical Survey of that Collectorate...': manuscript of the work by Lt-Col Monier Williams (d 1823), Bombay Army 1797, Surveyor-General of Bombay, published under that title (London 1825).
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`A Memoir on the Zilla of Baroche [Broach], being the result of a Revenue, Statistical, and Topographical Survey of that Collectorate...': manuscript of the work by Lt-Col Monier Williams (d 1823), Bombay Army 1797, Surveyor-General of Bombay, published under that title (London 1825).
Papers of Dr Thomas Horsfield (1773-1859), who served Dutch and British in Java, Sumatra and Banka 1800-19; employed at India Museum from 1819, Keeper 1836-59; consisting of notes on the natural history of Java and watercolours of scenes on the island. For Horsfield's catalogues of birds, quadrupeds, drawings and impressions of plants of Java: see Mss Eur D 562.
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Papers of Dr Thomas Horsfield (1773-1859), who served Dutch and British in Java, Sumatra and Banka 1800-19; employed at India Museum from 1819, Keeper 1836-59; consisting of notes on the natural history of Java and watercolours of scenes on the island. For Horsfield's catalogues of birds, quadrup...