Papers regarding Maler Kotla State (Punjab) - birth of a son, on 10 Oct 1861, to the Nawab of Maler Kotla [Sikandar Ali Khan] - Government of India overrule the allegations of illegitimacy made by the Nawab's cousin [Ibrahim Ali Khan] and recognize the child as heir to the Chiefship
Defence of Charles Umpherston Aitchison against the charge levelled against him in certain newspapers that he had knowingly suppressed certain material facts in his 'Précis of British relations with Bhutan' - copies of the demi-official correspondence of the Honourable Ashley Eden, the Envoy to Bhutan
Papers regarding Mysore State - administration of the Mysore Trust Fund - refusal of the Maharaja of Mysore [Krishna Raja Wodeyar] to receive the interest on the thirty lakhs of rupees invested on account of the Fund
Papers regarding Mysore State - further papers regarding the request of the Maharaja [Krishna Raja Wodeyar] to have the administration of the State restored to him - copies of the correspondence in 1799 between the Governor-General [Lord Mornington] and the Commissioners for the affairs of Mysore, etc.
Papers regarding Mysore State - kharita (formal letter) from the Viceroy [Sir John Lawrence] to the Maharaja [Krishna Raja Wodeyar] conveying the decision of the British Government not to restore the management of the State to the Maharaja
Papers regarding the Mysore Princes (descendants of Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan) - question whether the capital stock authorized as a permanent provision for the members of the family is liable to attachment by the Courts - opinion of the Advocate General of Bengal [Mr Graham]
Papers regarding Kathiawar - requests of the Thakur of Morvi and the Chief of Wankaner to be raised from the 2nd to the 1st rank of Kathiawar Chiefs, and of the Chief of Sayla to be raised from the 3rd to the 2nd rank - Bombay Government reject the last two claims and their decision in favour of Morvi is overruled by the Government of India (includes, on p 7, a genealogical table of the Chiefs of Wankaner, Dhrangadhra, Sayla, Limbdi, Thanlakhtar and Wadhwan)
‘INDIA POLITICAL. COLLECTIONS TO DESPATCHES. NOS. 5. TO 11. 1866.’, Vol 81
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of collections to India Political Despatches from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department, numbers 5-11, dated 1-22 February 1866. The collections consist of papers forwarded with the Government of India’s Foreign Letters to the Secreta...
Coll No. 1, Thanks of Sir John Lawrence for honor conferred on him by Resolutions of the Court of Directors and the General Court, India Foreign Letter 16 August 1858 (No.29);Coll No.2, Conduct of Nawabs Ameenvodeer & Zeeavadela of Lahore during the rebellion, India Foreign Letter 16 August 1...