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Place Cochin State, India

1. Mss Eur C480

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Mss Eur C480
Title:
Benjamin Swain Ward papers.
Scope & Content:
Typescript extracts from `Memoir of the Survey of Travancore & Cochin 1816-20' by Lt (later Maj) Benjamin Swain Ward (1786-1835), Madras Army 1811-35, comprising extracts from the journal as published by the Madras Government in 1891 (IOR ref V/23/198; see also IOL V3280 and V6996).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1816-1818
Extent:
57 pp

2. Mss Eur D764

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Mss Eur D764
Title:
Typescript translation of a letter, dated Cochin 10 Jan 1580, to a Signor Adelgais in Portugal, describing the writer's voyage from Lisbon to Goa and Cochin where he was engaged in the spice trade, and giving detailed impressions of 16th century India.
Scope & Content:
Typescript translation of a letter, dated Cochin 10 Jan 1580, to a Signor Adelgais in Portugal, describing the writer's voyage from Lisbon to Goa and Cochin where he was engaged in the spice trade, and giving detailed impressions of 16th century India.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1580
Extent:
9 folios

3. Mss Eur D1181

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Mss Eur D1181
Title:
Leases, deeds, indentures and related papers concerning the proprietors and tenants of the Varlavachen Coffee Estate in the Nelliampathi hills, Cochin.
Scope & Content:
Leases, deeds, indentures and related papers concerning the proprietors and tenants of the Varlavachen Coffee Estate in the Nelliampathi hills, Cochin.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1863-1893
Extent:
45 folios

4. Mss Eur E293

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Mss Eur E293
Title:
Papers of Sir John Willoughby, Bombay Civil Service 1817-51; East India Company Director 1854-58; Member of Council of India 1858-66
Scope & Content:
Willoughby Collection: papers of Sir John Pollard Willoughby, 4th Bart (1798-1866), Bombay Civil Service 1817-51; Assistant at Baroda 1820-28; Political Agent, Kathiawar 1828-35; Secretary, Bombay Government 1836-46; Member, Bombay Council 1846-51; East India Company Director 1854-58; Member, Co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1798-1864
Extent:
323 items

5. Mss Eur F161

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Mss Eur F161
Title:
Indian Police Collection
Scope & Content:
Indian Police Collection: papers illustrating the work and history of the Indian Police, mostly collected under the auspices of the Indian Police Association to facilitate the writing of `To Guard My People: the history of the Indian Police' by P J Griffiths (1971).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1765-1961
Extent:
284 items

6. Mss Eur F234

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Mss Eur F234
Title:
Grant Duff Collection: papers of Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (1829-1906), MP 1857-81, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India 1868-74, Governor of Madras 1881-86; also includes correspondence with numerous British and European public figures; some correspondence of his son Evelyn Grant Duff (1863-1926), diplomat 1886-1913, and of other members of the Grant Duff family; draft biographies of Sir M E Grant Duff and Lady Grant Duff by their descendant Sheila Sokolov-Grant.
Scope & Content:
Grant Duff Collection: papers of Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (1829-1906), MP 1857-81, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India 1868-74, Governor of Madras 1881-86, including correspondence with numerous British and European public figures; some correspondence of his son Sir Eve...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1852-1916
Extent:
343 items

7. Mss Eur G38

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Mss Eur G38
Title:
Genealogical and biographical material on Indian Princes, Chiefs, and landholders, and other prominent personalities in India both British and Indian, compiled mainly after his retirement by Lewin Bentham Bowring (1824-1910), Bengal Civil Service 1843-70
Scope & Content:
Bowring Collection: albums, originally three large volumes, containing genealogical and biographical material on Indian Princes, Chiefs, and landholders, and other prominent personalities in India both British and Indian, compiled mainly after his retirement by Lewin Bentham Bowring (1824-1910), ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
31 volumes