Letter from Captain Donald Robertson, Beawar to Leslie Seymour Saunders
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Letter, dated 30 June 1873 regarding the Mayo College File, which had taken some time to put together for Saunders and discussing what he had and hadn't included in it. The file and précis which are referred to in the letter are no longer enclosed. A postscript to the letter, dated 1 July 1873,...
Letter from Captain Donald Robertson, Beawar to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter enclosing an English translation of an address and a copy of Pelly's reply, as well as informing him that they have been sent for insertion into the Rajputana Gazette and that the original address would be published in Urdu. The enclosures referred to are no longer with the letter.
Letter from Captain Donald Robertson, Beawar to Herbert Mills Repton
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Letter regarding a recent trip to Tadgarh and his success in getting both sides to sign an agreement to avoid further fighting. The letter goes on to give details of the settlement and the difficulties he encountered on his return journey.
Letter from Captain Donald Robertson, Beawar to Leslie Seymour Saunders
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Letter regarding his having sent a full account of his doings to Herbert Mills Repton, the difficulties he had encountered in meeting a local ruler, including rudeness and false messages regarding ill health. The letter goes on to discuss reports submitted in vernacular, Urdu and English; the b...
Letter from Captain Donald Robertson, Beawar to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter informing Pelly that he may have trouble getting through the Diwer Pass to Dasswii and suggesting he use the direct route to Udepur [Udaipur] instead, as well as informing him that the roads were being prepared for his carriage and describing the landmarks he would be able to see on the d...
Letter and memorandum by George Henry Maxwell Batten, Commissioner of Inland Customs,concerning the abolition of the customs line between Rajputana [Rājasthān] and the Central Indian States.
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Letter from George Henry Maxwell Batten, Commissioner of Inland Customs, regarding Lewis Pelly's desire to abolish the customs line between Rajputana [Rājasthān] and the British Territory. The letter encloses a confidential memo which Batten wrote at Lord Northbrook's request on the feasibilit...
Demi-officials on Meywar affairs after death of Maharana Shunbao Singh
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Demi-official letters from Colonel John Allen Wright, Political Agent, Haraoti on the state of Meywar [Mewār] affairs following the death of Maharana Shunbao Singh [Shambhu Singh]. The letters discuss the circumstances of the Maharana's death and claims that his death was as a result of witchcr...
Letter from Colonel John Allen Wright, Political Agent, Haraoti to Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General at Rajputana
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Letter regarding Wright's meeting with the Sirdars at Mewar in which they presented urgent requests regarding the death of Maharana Shumbhu Singh: An appropriate outlay in funeral rites and alms and an increase in the money to be given to certain individuals; Colonel Wright responded that money ...
Letter from Colonel John Allen Wright, Political Agent, Haraoti to Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General at Rajputana
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Letter regarding sending Lieutenant Yate on boundary settlement duty; a 'secret council' of the nobles of Mewar organised by the Karawa Rao in which the belief that the Maharana had been murdered through witchcraft was again raised along with the desire to see those they believed responsible bro...
Letter from Colonel John Allen Wright, Political Agent, Haraoti to Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General at Rajputana
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Letter regarding Maharaj Suckul Singh whom Wright his receiving pressure to name as successor to the late Maharana of Oodeypore [Udaipur, Mewar], and Sohun Singh was has desires on the throne too but whose is considered by Wright as the soure of much disquiet in Mewar. The letter also discusse...
