Papers relating to Central India - report on the finances of Dhar State since it was taken into British administration (with associated correspondence)
Papers relating to Central India - reports on the private durbars held by the Governor General of India [Lord Canning] at Jubbulpore on 14 Jan 1861 (includes, on p 9, an English translation of the address delivered on that occasion by the Sikandar Begam of Bhopal)
Scope & Content:
Includes further papers regarding the transfer of North Kanara District from the Madras to the Bombay Presidency, Vol 1 - objections of the Madras Government - question of the status of the port of Sadashivgarh etc. (includes, at end of Collection, a MS coloured sketch map showing boundaries) [Ma...
Further papers regarding the transfer of North Kanara District from the Madras to the Bombay Presidency, Vol 2 - administrative arrangements etc (includes, on p 23, a map of the district, MS, coloured, showing boundaries and main roads)
Mutiny papers relating to the North Western Provinces - assignment of lands in Moradabad and Bareilly Districts to the Nawab of Rampur [Muhammad Yusuf Ali Khan] as a reward for his services during the Mutiny - abandonment of the original proposal to assign Kashipur Taluk to the Nawab (includes maps showing the proposed and actual transfers, on pp 23, 45 and 47)
Papers relating to the Punjab - enquiry of Major William McNeile, Deputy Commissioner, Ludhiana, regarding his petition to the Secretary of State for India to be awarded the Order of the Bath
Claim of Spain to exercise sovereignty over the Sulu [Xolo] Islands in the Southern Philippines - restrictions placed by Spain on British trade with Sulu
Papers relating to the North West Frontier - re-establishment of a Syad colony at Sirri/Sittana on the Indus - depredations of the colonists - consequent enforcement by the Punjab Government of their blockade of the Jaidun tribe - measures taken to obtain satisfaction from the Jaiduns
Papers relating to the Nagpur Territory - correspondence between the Commissioner of Nagpur [Major Edward King Elliot] and the Government of India regarding certain watans etc. held by the late Raja of Nagpur [Raghuji III] in the districts of Poona, Ahmadnagar and Sholapur, and in the Satara Territory - the title of 'Raja Bahadur of Deor' and the lands of Deor are granted to Janoji Bhonsla in perpetuity
Papers relating to Rewa State (Baghelkhand) - Government of India forward to London a silver box containing a kharita (honorary letter) from the Maharaja of Rewa [Raghuraj Singh] for presentation to Queen Victoria, together with a translation of the kharita (neither a copy of the kharita nor its translation are to be found with the Collection)
Papers relating to Hyderabad State - final arrangements for the transfer of the Surapur Territory to the Nizam of Hyderabad [Afzal-ud-daula] - memorial to the Secretary of State for India from Rangama Bai, widow of the late Raja of Surapur, praying for the restoration to her of the Surapur Raj