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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F331/34-36
Title:: George Vansittart, East India Company servant, Bengal 1761-76: travel journals
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: Unspecified

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F331/34
Title:
Scope & Content:: Journal of a march from Balasore to Sambalpur (note: possibly not by Vansittart): comments on the inhabitants, customs, produce, and possibilities of revenue of the country traversed by the author who had been sent by Lord Clive to purchase diamonds from the Raja of Sambalpur b66
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mar 1766
Extent:: Unspecified

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F331/35
Title:
Scope & Content:: Journal of a Circuit of the Midnapore and Jallesore Provinces': evidently the result of a tour of inspection giving sytematic statements for each pergunnah (pargana) of area and value of land, state of cultivation, amount and value of crops, administrative and taxation arrangements b67
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Apr-May 1767
Extent:: Unspecified

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F331/36
Title:
Scope & Content:: Journals in and from India': survey of passes and western boundary of Bengal by Lt Thomas Carter 1767; brief notes on a number of short journeys in Bengal and Bihar(1770-74); journey from Calcutta to Benares and back (Jun-Oct 1773); voyage home (Jan-Aug 1776) b101
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1767-1776
Extent:: Unspecified

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