Letter from Captain Donald Robertson, Beawar to Leslie Seymour Saunders
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Letter regarding his having sent a full account of his doings to Herbert Mills Repton, the difficulties he had encountered in meeting a local ruler, including rudeness and false messages regarding ill health. The letter goes on to discuss reports submitted in vernacular, Urdu and English; the b...
Letter from Captain Donald Robertson, Beawar to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter informing Pelly that he may have trouble getting through the Diwer Pass to Dasswii and suggesting he use the direct route to Udepur [Udaipur] instead, as well as informing him that the roads were being prepared for his carriage and describing the landmarks he would be able to see on the d...
Letter and memorandum by George Henry Maxwell Batten, Commissioner of Inland Customs,concerning the abolition of the customs line between Rajputana [Rājasthān] and the Central Indian States.
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Letter from George Henry Maxwell Batten, Commissioner of Inland Customs, regarding Lewis Pelly's desire to abolish the customs line between Rajputana [Rājasthān] and the British Territory. The letter encloses a confidential memo which Batten wrote at Lord Northbrook's request on the feasibilit...
Demi-officials on Meywar affairs after death of Maharana Shunbao Singh
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Demi-official letters from Colonel John Allen Wright, Political Agent, Haraoti on the state of Meywar [Mewār] affairs following the death of Maharana Shunbao Singh [Shambhu Singh]. The letters discuss the circumstances of the Maharana's death and claims that his death was as a result of witchcr...
Letter from Colonel John Allen Wright, Political Agent, Haraoti to Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General at Rajputana
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Letter regarding Wright's meeting with the Sirdars at Mewar in which they presented urgent requests regarding the death of Maharana Shumbhu Singh: An appropriate outlay in funeral rites and alms and an increase in the money to be given to certain individuals; Colonel Wright responded that money ...
Letter from Colonel John Allen Wright, Political Agent, Haraoti to Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General at Rajputana
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Letter regarding sending Lieutenant Yate on boundary settlement duty; a 'secret council' of the nobles of Mewar organised by the Karawa Rao in which the belief that the Maharana had been murdered through witchcraft was again raised along with the desire to see those they believed responsible bro...
Letter from Colonel John Allen Wright, Political Agent, Haraoti to Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General at Rajputana
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Letter regarding Maharaj Suckul Singh whom Wright his receiving pressure to name as successor to the late Maharana of Oodeypore [Udaipur, Mewar], and Sohun Singh was has desires on the throne too but whose is considered by Wright as the soure of much disquiet in Mewar. The letter also discusse...
Official correspondence between Pelly and others concerning the preparation of an elementary Manual of Agriculture to be used in schools in Ajmer District.
Letter from Captain Charles Allan Baylay, Mount Aboo to The Revd Mr W Shoolbred, Simla
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Letter from Captain Baylay requesting, on behalf of Sir Lewis Pelly, the Reverend's opinion on a copy of a letter from the Commissioner, Ajmere regarding the preparation of a Manual of Agriculture for Ajmere District. The copy of the letter (No. 2432 of 1874) is not enclosed, however the origin...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Agent to Governor General for Rajpootana, Camp Chandawul to The Secretary to Government, Foreign Department, Calcutta
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Letter regarding an examination of classes at native schools in Beawur, to assess the progress being made in education, by Lewis Pelly at the request of Reverend Mr Shoolbred. The letter provides details of the schools, including the numbers of scholars attending them, as well as information on...
