Presentation copy of speech made by Lt-Col Robert Home, Bengal Engineers 1853, Joint Secretary, Punjab Public Works Dept, Irrigation Branch, describing the history of the Sirhind Canal project from 1840, and inviting the Viceroy to complete the opening of the Canal.
Memoir of his early life and service in India by Lewin Bentham Bowring (1824-1910), Bengal Civil Service 1843-70, Private Secretary to Viceroy 1858-62, Chief Commissioner, Mysore and Coorg 1862-70.
Official and private letters received chiefly by Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771-1851) as President of the Board of Control 1807-09 and 1809-12, from successive Chairmen and Deputy Chairmen of the East India Company concerning its trading policy, organisation, and other matter...
Order of Service, dated 27 Sep 1947, for the Inauguration of the Church of South India, and for the Consecration of its first new Bishops, with newspaper cuttings on the union of the Protestant Churches in South India.
Facsimile copy of illuminated letter, dated 3 Sep 1811, from the Sultan of Mataram to the Governor-General of Bengal [produced by the Museum of South East Asia in 1984].
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Facsimile copy of illuminated letter, dated 3 Sep 1811, from the Sultan of Mataram to the Governor-General of Bengal [produced by the Museum of South East Asia in 1984].
Three documents relating to Maj Thomas Bigg (b 1737), Bombay Army 1760-75: (i) his Ensign's Commission (1760); (ii) his Captain's Commission (1765); (iii) Warrant (1774) appointing him to preside over a court martial.
Miscellaneous papers chiefly on Tibet, compiled by Hugh Edward Richardson (b 1905), Indian Civil Service 1930-50, Indian Political Service 1934-50, Trade Agent, Gyantse 1936-40 and 1946-50; including letters, dated 1920-21, from the Dalai Lama and others to Sir Charles Alfred Bell (1870-1945); an...
Miscellaneous papers of Sir (Thomas) James Young Roxburgh (1892-1974), Indian Civil Service 1915-52, Judge, High Court Calcutta 1942-52, including newspaper cuttings, photographs and ephemera.
Articles of partnership between Donald Horne Macfarlane, Henry Holmes Sutherland, and Alexander Brand Inglis, on re-forming the firm of Begg, Dunlop & Co, merchants, Calcutta.
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Articles of partnership between Donald Horne Macfarlane, Henry Holmes Sutherland, and Alexander Brand Inglis, on re-forming the firm of Begg, Dunlop & Co, merchants, Calcutta.