Miscellaneous copies of official papers relating to the administration of Warren Hastings (1732-1818) and Sir John Macpherson (1745-1821) as Governors-General of Bengal 1774-85 and 1785-86; also a few private legal and financial papers of Richard Johnson, East India Company servant 1770-90, and o...
Research papers of Reverend Robert Blanchard Raffles
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Draft manuscripts and copies of documents compiled c 1887 by Reverend Robert Blanchard Raffles (1857-1905) for the purpose of writing a memoir of Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (1781-1826), East India Company servant 1795-1824, Lieutenant-Governor of Java 1811-16, Governor of Benkulen 1818-...
Papers of Sir Olaf Caroe (1892-1981), Indian Political Service 1923-47, chiefly relating to his literary and other interests in retirement
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Caroe Collection: papers of Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe (1892-1981), Indian Civil Service 1920, Indian Political Service 1923-47, including a few papers relating to his Governorship of the North-West Frontier Province 1946-47; but chiefly reflecting his literary and other interests in retirement, ...
Miscellaneous papers of Richard le-Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty (1767-1847), Member of the Board of Control 1804-06, relating to the administration of India c1793-1811, including material on Oudh, military affairs, finance and trade.
Materials collected by Raymond Kevin Renford for his book `The non-official British in India to 1920' (1987); also two copies of his MA thesis `The Role of the non-official British in India in the Ilbert Bill controversy' (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1973).
Macnabb Collection: papers of successive generations of the Macnabb family who served in India
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Macnabb Collection: correspondence and papers of Dr James Macnabb (1759-1822), Bengal Medical Service 1789-1818, his son James Munro Macnabb (1790-1860), Bengal Civil Service 1806-31, and successive generations of the Macnabb family who served in India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Papers of Sir John Anderson, lst Viscount Waverley, chiefly as Governor of Bengal 1932-37
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Anderson Collection: papers concerning the career of Sir John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley (1882-1958), principally from his term as Governor of Bengal 1932-37, including corres- pondence with the Secretary of State, the Viceroy, and other British and Indian politicians and administrators.
Papers of Hugh Trevor Lambrick, Indian Civil Service, Sind 1927-47, Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford 1947-71
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Lambrick Collection: papers of, or collected by, Hugh Trevor Lambrick (1904-82), Indian Civil Service, Sind 1927-47, Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford 1947-71, comprising material on the Hur Rebellion 1942-46, and literary papers, including original documents, relating to Brig-Gen John Jacob (1812-...
`The Forgotten Islands': an account of the Andaman Islands by Frances Theodora Stewart Robertson, wife of Anthony William Robertson (b 1896), Indian Police 1919-40, Assistant Commissioner, Andamans 1923-27; also miscellaneous materials chiefly newscuttings relating to India including articles by ...
Route maps of railway and inland steamer services in India, annotated by William James Coode (1901-83), Indian Railways 1921-51, together with miscellaneous memorabilia.