Letter from the Respectful Memorial of Sudashiv Rao Guicowar, alias Rao Saheb, a resident of the City of Baroda to His Excellency the Right Honourable Thomas George Baring, Baron Northbrook of Stratton, Viceroy and Governor General of India in Council
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Three copies of a letter from Sudashiv Rao regarding the recent actions of his uncle Mulhar Rao Guicowar (Gaekwar) and his hopes that such actions would not reflect badly on the rest of the Royal Family, and that should a successor be required that the Government would look first to the legal he...
Letter from Gunpatrao and Khanderao, Gaikwads, Baroda to Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General, and Special Commissioner, Baroda
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Letter enclosing a memorial submitted for the attention of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India containing their claims to the Gadi (throne) of Baroda. The memorial contains details of their ancestry in support of their claim, and of the claim of Sadashivrao and their reasons for it not be...
Letter from the undersigned Sirdars, etc. of the Baroda Sate to Philip Sandys Melvill, Agent to the Governor-General of India, Baroda
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Letter regarding the policies being pursued by Sir T Mahadevrao (Sir Tanjore Madavha Rao) in the administration of the Baroda state, which had been entrusted to him owing to the minority of His Highness Sieajeerao Gaekwar (Sayajirao Gaekwad III), which the Sirdars believed had deprived them of s...
Letter from Damodhur Trinbuck Punt, late Private Secretary to His Highness Mulherao Maharaja, Breach Candy Road No.472, Bombay to Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding circumstances that had arisen owing to his having taken part in the trial of His Highness the ex Gaekwad Mulherao Maharaja of Baroda and detailing the guarantee agreed between himself and Pelly for his testimony, in particular the allowance which he had been receiving from the G...
Photograph of unknown building. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre/Subject Matter: This architectural view of a large, recently-constructed complex of three buildings likely depicts a British residency or agency, although its precise location is unknown. Dates and photographer can also not be ascertained, however, it can be construed that the photograph ...
Third of 3 Journals (1867–73) of Jeffery Charles Amherst (1844–77), fourth son of 2nd Earl Amherst
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Genre/Subject Matter Third of three journals covering Amherst’s service with his regiment and furloughs in India and Europe between 1867 and 1873. Watercolour, pen and ink and pencil drawings interspersed throughout the journal. There are four unidentified watercolour views loose in the album...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1870-Apr 1876
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1 case bound, unpublished volume (unknown number of pages), illustrated with 49 watercolour, pencil and pen and ink drawings
Genre/Subject Matter This pencil sketch on paper depicts a man reclining against a pillow on a chaise-longue while reading. It is drawn in the style of a caricature, which is in keeping with other figural sketches in this volume and, more broadly, in the related files Mss Eur F140/232 and Mss E...
Genre/Subject Matter These two small watercolour drawings depict scenes taken from life at the Settlement of Aden in 1871. Both drawings focus on Arabs’ use of camels as a form of transport. In the left-hand drawing, four veiled women perch alongside one another atop a litter held in place on...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Oct 1871
Extent:
2 drawings; watercolour and pencil on paper, pasted into volume
The file is a memoir of the career of Major John Evelyn Arnold Bazalgette, covering his service in the British Army and in India and the Persian Gulf. The file consists of three parts. The first part is a draft of a short memoir entitled ‘Jack of all trades’, which recounts Bazalgette’s experie...
