Petition, memorandums and written accounts relating to affairs in Rajpootana [Rājasthān] from 1873-1876. Issues covered by the papers include the question of payment of expenses to employees of the Mount Abu Residency; an account of the last few weeks of the life of Sir Takht Singh, Maharaja of...
Letter from the Horse Keeper, Driver and Sawar at Mount Aboo [Ābu] to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān], Mount Aboo
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Petition from four employees of the Rajpootana [Rājasthān] Agency, including a Horse Keeper, Driver and Sawar regarding their lack of expenses in order to purchase food and their unwillingness to go to Deesa [Dīsa] as instructed until they have been able to obtain some.
List of Chiefs within the Rajpootana [Rājasthān] Agency
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Printed list of all the Chiefs within the Rajpootana [Rājasthān] Agency. The list is taken from volume III of an unknown publication. The verso of the folio has a pencil note stating that the list has been sent to Pelly with Thornton's (Thomas Henry Thornton?) compliments and that the Chiefs ar...
Letter from Pandut Rain Kurrum [Pandita Ramarna], Tonk to Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter enclosing a sample described as antiquarian writing in Pallee words, and a testimonial granted to him by Captain J F W Muir, Political Agent Harotee [Hāraoti] and Tonk. The sample appears to contain an image of a sketch map of roads and hillocks. The letter goes on to express his willing...
Memorandum by Herbert Mills Repton on the Dhai dinka Jhompree or Jain Temple at Ajmere [Ajmer]
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Memorandum regarding the Dhai dinka Jhompree, more commonly known as the Jain Temple at Ajmere [Ajmer], including General Alexander Cunningham's assertions in relation to the history of its construction as given in his archaeological report of 1864-1865, and the likelihood that the Jain's would ...
Report on the medical care of the Maharaja Sir Takht Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur
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Report, mostly likely written by Doctor James William Moore, Doctor to the Rajputana [Rājasthān] Agency regarding the death of Sir Takht Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur, who died on 13 February 1873, and describing his last weeks including treatments given to him by himself, as well as those given by...
Account of the succession of Jaswant Singh II, Maharaja of Jodhpur
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Account, most likely written by either Doctor James William Moore, Doctor to the Rajputana [Rājasthān] Agency, or Major Charles Kenneth Walter, Political Agent for Jaipur describing the introduction of Jaswant Singh II as the new Maharaja of Jodhpur 3 March 1873 to his Court, local Chiefs and ci...
Letter from Major Charles Kenneth Mackenzie Walter, In charge, Agent Governor General's Office, Rajputana [Rājasthān], Abu to Lieutenant-Colonel Owen Tudor Burne, Private Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy
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Letter enclosing a memorandum, dated 6 September 1876, for the attention of His Excellency the Viceroy (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Second Baron Lytton), giving his views on the personal concessions and acts of grace that would be suitable for the Chiefs of Rajputana [Rājasthān] at the forthcoming Imp...
Report of the Baroda Enquiry Commission on the administration of the government of Malharrao, Gaekwar of Baroda. The Commission comprised Richard John Meade (President), Edward William Ravenscroft, Mumtazul Dowlah Nawab Faiz Ali Khan, Colonel Alfred Thomas Etheridge and Thomas Duncan Mackenzie (...
Papers, reports, correspondence, memorandums, notes and proclamations relating to events in Baroda 1873 to 1875 and Sir Lewis Pelly's appointment there as Special Commissioner. The events in question revolved around allegations of the maladministration of the Baroda State by Malhar Rao, Gaekwar...
