Destruction of East India Company records by the India Office.
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(1) pp. i-xxi, Index (incomplete). (2) pp. 1-661, Papers relating to the destruction of useless Records in the India Office 12th Nov. 1858 to 27th Jan. 1881. See William Foster's Guide to the India Office Records. pp. vi-vii, for an account of the destruction of Records in 1858-60. The Committee ...
(1) pp. 1-3, Sir A. C. Lyall to W. Foster 7th Jan. 1903 presenting the volume to the India Office (Original). (2) p. 3, Note by W. Foster, n.d. (3) pp. 5-113, Draft Despatch on "Recent Changes in Native Education," submitted by the Chairman and Deputy Chairman to the Board of Control on 5th Oct. ...
Papers concerning Sarguja, Sambalpur and Singhbum.
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(1) pp. i, 135, 317-8, 447, 481-2, 659-60, 753, List of Contents. (2) pp. 1-800, Papers referring to Sarguja, Sambalpur and Singhbum 26th May 1818 to 12th May 1830. (3) Major Edward Roughsedge (Agent to the Governor-General on the South-West Frontier). pp. 1-13, 24, 30-65, 111-3, to Capt. H. Sinn...
(1) pp. 1-22, "Translation of Tantia Topee's voluntary deposition or statement taken in Camp Mooshrairee on 10th April 1859, in presence of Major [Sir Richard John] Meade, Commanding Field Force." [Tantia Topi, a Maratha Brahman, was the ablest of the Indian leaders in the Mutiny. He was captured...
(1) Jonathan Duncan (Governor of Bombay). pp. 1-44, 53-60, 65-72, 111-30, 140-203, to David Scott (almost all Originals) 17th Oct. 1800 to 30th June 1803; pp. 45-50, Minute of 4th June 1801 on the claims of Messrs. Maconochie and Crawford against the Company for damage by Paul Tate to a Timber Mi...
(1) pp. 1-313, Papers of Robert Kitson, Bombay Civil Service, presented to the India Office by A. A. West, February 1906. (2) pp. 3-11, Notes by Arthur A. West, M.I.C.E., on the three following manuscripts from the Papers of Robert Kitson, who died at Bombay 23rd March 1812, with, pp. 13-20, Shor...
Papers of Sir John Malcolm chiefly relating to his career as an officer of the East India Company in India and on diplomatic missions to Persia [Iran]. Volumes IOR/H/733 and 736 relate to both central India and Persia; volume IOR/H/734 relates solely to India; volume IOR/H/737 relates solely t...