Papers on Burmese astronomy and chronology compiled by Lt-Col Henry Burney (1792-1845), Bengal Army 1808-45, while serving as resident at the Court of Ava 1829-38.
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Papers on Burmese astronomy and chronology compiled by Lt-Col Henry Burney (1792-1845), Bengal Army 1808-45, while serving as resident at the Court of Ava 1829-38.
Letters to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811), Member 1784 and President 1793-1801 of the Board of Control, from George Harris, 1st Baron Harris (1746-1829) and General James Stuart (1741-1815), Commanders-in-Chief, Madras 1796-1800 and 1801-04.
Part of a manuscript catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the East India Company Library (nd, watermark 1850) by Horace Hayman Wilson (1786-1860), Librarian of the East India Company and India Office Library 1836-60. Dated as: no date
`Grammaire pour apprendre la langue Talenga dite vulgairement le Badega': a Telugu-French dictionary apparently embodying the work of successive Jesuit missionaries and completed c1730, with brief notes thereon by Charles Philip Brown (1798-1884), Madras Civil Service 1815-54, oriental scholar.
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`Grammaire pour apprendre la langue Talenga dite vulgairement le Badega': a Telugu-French dictionary apparently embodying the work of successive Jesuit missionaries and completed c1730, with brief notes thereon by Charles Philip Brown (1798-1884), Madras Civil Service 1815-54, oriental scholar.
Miscellaneous papers of Col (later Maj-Gen) William Miles (d 1860), Bombay Army 1800-34, Political Agent, Palanpur 1817-30, on various political, historical and geographical subjects including an account of the Prithvi Raja Rasa; and an unpublished history of Gujarat, vols 1,2 and 4 only (nd).
Papers of Brig-Gen John Jacob, Bombay Artillery 1828-58, Commandant, Scinde Irregular Horse 1841-58, Political Superintendent of Upper Sind 1847-58
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Jacob Collection: papers of and relating to Brig-Gen John Jacob (1812-58), Bombay Artillery 1828-58, Commandant, Scinde Irregular Horse 1841-58, Political Superintendent of Upper Sind 1847-58, including: Record Book of the Scinde Irregular Horse (1839-51); memoir (1852) by Jacob on the Kachhi exp...