Copies of extracts from correspondence between Governor General of India dated 10th January 1882 and SOS dated 23 March 1882, to be laid before Parliament (by order of HM)
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[file includes publication on Corporal Punishment and Mortality in Indian Jails]
Emigration to Réunion: Despatch from Lord Lyons:- Emigration of Indian coolies to Réunion to be stopped in October, 1882, unless French Government complies with Indian Government's conditions
Enquiry into flogging of 11,000 prisoners in Bengal jails between January 1879 and March 1880; condemnation of Sir Ashley Eden, Lt-Governor of Bengal, 'under whose tenure of office these floggings took place'