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This manuscript does not have a formal title. This is a text which contains medical tips. Extent: A palm-leaf manuscript with 246 leaves. Size and dimensions of original material: L 40.5 cm x W 3.5 cm x H 6.3 cm. Condition of original material: Badly damaged and incomplete. Author(s)/Creato...
Petitions from Weavers of the Chingleput District complaining of the imposition of a tax on their looms, together with correspondence which took place on a previous representation on the same subject. Also included are various revenue statements for the District. One of the petitions includes a ...
The records originally comprised 36 boxes of Orphan Chamber records, 54 boxes of records of the College of Justice, 1 box of the records of the Political Council, and 7 boxes of miscellanies. For the most part the records are written Dutch. The bulk relates to the period 1785-1825 i.e. the last y...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Malay, Portuguese, and Tamil
‘16/23-III Miscellaneous – Payments of Military Pension from the Bahrain Treasury and other Correspondence regarding’
Scope & Content:
Memoranda, statements, forms and other papers relating to military pension payments made from the Bahrain Treasury. The principal correspondents are: the Political Agent in Bahrain; the Controller (or Deputy Controller) of Military Pension Accounts [CMPA] in the Lahore Cantonment. The file is a ...
The four surviving Claims files contain correspondence, witness statements and other related documents. The first and second files concern the investigation and prosecution of criminal and civil offences in Kuwait, falling within the jurisdiction of the British Political Agent for Kuwait. In mos...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Persian, Portuguese, and Tamil
File 9/4 ‘Political Agency Koweit. IX/4. Civil Cases from 1909’
Scope & Content:
The file contains case correspondence, including several witness statements and a record of hearing proceedings held at the British Political Agency in Kuwait. These case papers relate to the investigation and resolution of 27 individual claims that were submitted to the Political Agent, Kuwait ...
