Custodial history: A fraction of the Daw family headed by Ramnarayan Daw settled at Jorasanko in Calcutta at the very beginning of the nineteenth century migrating from their ancestral village of Kotulpur of the present district of Bankura, West Bengal. One of his descendants, Narasimha Chandra ...
Appoinment certificate by Governor of Assam Sir Akbar Hydari, to M/S N.C. Daw & Co. for supply fire arms, ammunition etc. Extent: 1 Appointment Certificate. Size and dimensions of original material: The original volume with length of 37x25 cm. Condition of original material: Partly Damage...
The author bases this text on the oral history of Chotrae Desmanjhi. It recounts the history of the Santal uprising of 1855, talks about Assam's Guma colony and Chotrae Desmanjhi travelling from Benagaria to the Assam colony. Extent: Text consisting of 100 pages. Size and dimensions of origina...
O.R. outline map 5682 covering present-day Bangladesh, with parts of Myanmar and other adjacent countries, produced by Geographical Section, General Staff, (W.O.) 1942.
'Bengal and Assam, India/Pakistan Boundaries as fixed by the Boundary Commission, 17 Aug 47' O.R. 5682
Scope & Content:
Fourteen copies of an outline map covering present-day Bangladesh and parts of Myanmar and other adjacent countries, with overprints in red ink showing two different sets of boundaries between India and Pakistan as fixed by the Boundary Commission 17 Aug 1947. Base map O.R. 5682 produced by Geogr...
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains informal snapshots and work by professional photographers, showing views of various interiors, viceregal functions and events, together with landscape views of: Bombay, Lucknow, Calcutta, Barakpur, Mashobra, Bhopal, Benares, Narkanda, Delhi, Gwalior, Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1898-1900
Extent:
1 black full-leather, unpublished album (29 pages) containing 99 photographic prints pasted into volume (and one loose) with handwritten captions beneath