Records of the East India Company Library (1801-58) and its successor the India Office Library (1858-1982), with a few records of Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library (1982- )
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Library Collection: records of the Library of the East India Company (1801-58) and its successor the India Office Library.
Letters from Euphemia Margaret ('Peggy') Stokes, teacher at St Christopher's Training College, Madras 1937-60, to her parents and other family members.
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Letters from Euphemia Margaret (`Peggy') Stokes, lecturer at St Christopher's Training College, Madras 1937-60, to her parents and other family members.
Papers of James Horsburgh (1762-1836), East India Company Hydrographer and Geographer 1810-36: (i) letterbook (1796-1816) including business and official correspondence (1796-1804) as commander of country ship `Anna', and with Alexander Dalrymple, his predecessor as Hydrographer; (ii) notebook co...
Letters from Deborah Alice Marshall (1899-1992), wife of Lt- Col. John Stuart Marshall (1885-1942), Indian Army 1904-1940, written from India to her mother.
Papers of Sir George Henry Sutherland (1866-1937), relating to his Indian business interests
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Papers of Sir George Henry Sutherland (1866-1937), President of Bengal Chamber of Commerce 1900-1901, Sheriff of Calcutta 1901 and 1908, member of Bengal Legislative Council 1900-1902 and 1907-1908, relating to his Indian business interests.
Letters and journals of Sidney Ralli, broadcaster and journalist, daughter of Maj-Gen Charles John Bruce Hay, and wife of Charles Ralli of Ralli Bros, a cotton broking firm in Karachi
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Letters and journals of Sidney Ralli, broadcaster and journalist, daughter of Maj-Gen Charles John Bruce Hay and wife of Charles Ralli of Ralli Bros, a cotton broking firm in Karachi.
Translations by Lt Cyril William Bowdler Bell, 5th Lancers, British Army 1864, of `Araish-i-Mahfil'; `The Gulistan of Sa'dy' (reprinted by W Nassau Lees for the use of the College of Fort William; Calcutta, 1858); and `Ikd-i-Manzum or Lees' Selections from the Bostan'; probably completed as lingu...
Grant-Duff Papers: copies of official records of the Bombay Government and of other official and private papers compiled or collected by Capt James Cunningham Grant-Duff (1789-1858), Bombay Army 1807-27, Resident at Satara 1818-23; relating to the Maratha War 1817-18; his work at Satara, and Maratha history and geography; and forming some of the sources of his `History of the Mahrattas' (1826)
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Grant-Duff Papers: copies of official records of the Bombay Government and of other official and private papers compiled or collected by Capt James Cunningham Grant-Duff (1789-1858), Bombay Army 1807-27, Resident at Satara 1818-23; relating to the Maratha War 1817-18; his work at Satara, and Mara...
Correspondence and papers of Lt-Gen John Colpoys Haughton (1817-87), Bengal Army 1837-87, Commissioner of Cooch Behar 1864-73; relating mainly to the 1st Afghan War and the death of Capt Christopher Codrington, Bengal Army at the battle of Charikar (1841); the Andaman Islands; the Bhutan Expediti...