Linguistic Survey of India - Progress made by Sir G. Grierson
Scope & Content:
Papers regarding the publishing and review of the Report of the Linguistic Survey by Sir George Grierson. Includes a list showing annual payments to the Linguistic Survey of India; Newspaper articles from The Times; Report on the Linguistic Survey of India by Grierson; and a General list of langu...
File R 248/1881 - Papers on the cultivation of opium at Mozambique and on the Zambezi with a view to its export to China, and the failure of efforts made by the opium agent of Benares to re-introduce poppy cultivation in certain parganas of the Allahabad and Mirzapore districts
Scope & Content:
The file also includes the following papers: 'Note on Opium Revenue' a brief sketch of existing facts relating to the Indian opium revenue, of the different changes advocated by those who disapproved of the policy of the Indian Government with respect to it, and of the objections to those changes...
File R,S&C 100/1882 - A copy of the Report on the Land Revenue Administration of the Lower Provinces of Bengal for 1880 - 1881 together with a copy of the orders of the Government of India thereon
File R 390/1880 - Report on the Gold Mines of the South-Eastern portion of the Wynaad and the Carcoor Ghat by R Brough Smyth, Mining Engineer (Madras, 1880)
Scope & Content:
Includes a colour map of Ouchterlony Valley and Nambolukod Munanad and Cherankod Amshams, Nilgiri District, showing quartz reefs and gold workings, dated 30th October 1879 [scale: 1 inch = 1 mile]
File R 610/1880 - Report on the wild silks of India by Thomas Wardle, for which the grand prix was awarded to the Viceroy of India at the Paris Exhibition, 1878
Scope & Content:
Also included is a letter from Thomas Wardle to the Under Secretary of State for India, dated 30th July 1880; and a list of the best known species of wild silk worms in India
File R 689/1880 - Papers regarding a pamphlet by Charles James O'Donnell, Justice of the Peace for the Provinces of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, titled The Ruin of an Indian Province. An Indian famine explained. A letter to the Marquis of Hartington, Secretary of State for India in a liberal and reforming government. (London: C Kegan Paul & Co, 1880)