`Gilgit before 1947': photocopy of booklet by Brig Ghansar Singh Jamwal, Brigadier-General Staff of Jammu and Kashmir, Governor of Gilgit 1947, containing a brief history of Gilgit from the mid-nineteenth century, and a memoir of his experiences as Governor of Gilgit in 1947 and his arrest by the...
Copies of service papers of Lt-Col James Hamilton Gorman, Indian Medical Service 1930-49, Director of Public Health, Burma 1942, ADH Bengal Famine Relief 1943-44, Director of Public Health Madras 1945-46, Port Health Officer Bombay 1946-47; also copy of an article by him and others on `The evacua...
Photocopy of transcript of journal of Sophia Charlotte Stedman (m John Cotton, Sep 1807; d 1821) of her voyage to India on the East Indiaman `Admiral Gardiner'.
Papers relating to Subhas Chandra Bose (1897-1945), the Indian National Army and the Indian Independence League; with an inquiry into whether the Japanese ever contemplated an invasion of India; and copies of letters from Germany to Indian Princes in 1915; compiled by Col G D Anderson.
Photocopies of letters sent to Maj-Gen M Z Kiani, Commander, Indian National Army, from Subhas Chandra Bose, concerning the situation at the frontline on the Burma border; compiled by Col G D Anderson.
Copies of two letters from Lt-Col Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1863-1942), Indian Foreign Dept 1889-1909, religious thinker, to Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), philosopher, concerning holiday and lecture tour to America (1914) and commenting on Russell's feeling...
Photocopy of journal, dated 14 Apr-14 Sep 1868, of Lt (later Capt) Charles Alfred Carthew (1841-80), Bengal Army 1861-80, describing a trip to Kashmir to shoot Ibex; also service records including papers relating to his superintendence of the passage of troops returning from the Afghan War over t...
Memoirs of Sir James Glasgow Acheson (1889-1973) recalling his experiences in the Indian Civil Service (1913-1917) and the Indian Political Service (1917-1945).
Typescript copy of memoir of her voyage to India, marriage to Maj (later Maj-Gen) Robert John Baker, Madras Army 1845-76, and subsequent life and travels in India, by Mrs Baker (formerly Miss Harcourt-Ranking) including an account of early methods of tea making on the Tudor Hall tea estate owned ...