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Place Malabar Coast, Madras, India

1. IOR/F/4/2033/92119

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2033/92119
Title:
‘Slave Trade’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, minutes, and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; the East India Company Court of Directors. It i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1842-28 Dec 1843
Extent:
1 item (27 folios)

2. IOR/F/4/2122/100088

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2122/100088
Title:
‘Muscat. Complaint of His Highness the Imaum, of the annoyance occasioned to his people at the Indian Custom Houses’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, extracts from a Bombay [Mumbai] Political Consultation, 2 July 1845. The papers contained in this item are partial enclosures to a Political Letter sent from the Government of Bombay to the East In...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1845-2 Jul 1845
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

3. Mss Eur A3-5; B4-10; C9-10; D26-32; E49-50

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur A3-5; B4-10; C9-10; D26-32; E49-50
Title:
Erskine Collection: papers collected by William Erskine (1773-1852), legal office holder, Bombay from 1804, Master in Equity, Recorder's Court 1820-23; Secretary and later Vice-President of the Bombay Literary Society 1805-23; oriental scholar; chiefly relating to the history, geography, customs and antiquities of the peoples of India and Central Asia.
Scope & Content:
Erskine Collection: papers collected by William Erskine (1773-1852), legal office holder, Bombay from 1804, Master in Equity, Recorder's Court 1820-23; Secretary and later Vice-President of the Bombay Literary Society 1805-23; oriental scholar; chiefly relating to the history, geography, customs ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1804-1841
Extent:
21 volumes

4. Mss Eur B369

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B369
Title:
Journals of Thomas Machell (1824-62), traveller and planter
Scope & Content:
Journals of Thomas Machell (1824-62), midshipman in merchant navy 1840-45; assistant manager, indigo estates, Bengal 1846-52; later manager of coffee plantation, Wynaad, Madras; recording his experiences at sea, and life and travels in India.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1840-1856
Extent:
5 volumes

5. Mss Eur C167

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C167
Title:
Thomas Walters Venn papers.
Scope & Content:
`Pirates and Picaroons, the Pax Britannica on the Bombay coast': an unpublished history of the western seaboard of India from the advent of the East India Company to the end of the Maratha wars, by Maj Thomas Walters Venn (1882-1973), Bombay Steam Navigation Co Ltd, volunteer and Reserve Officer,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1959
Extent:
1 volume

6. Mss Eur D122

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D122
Title:
Letters from Rev Claudius Buchanan (1766-1815), East India Company chaplain from 1797, Professor and Vice-Provost of the College of Fort William 1799-1807, mainly to Rev David Brown (1763-1812), Provost of the College, describing his journey along the Malabar Coast to Ceylon and Cochin to study Hindu religion, the Christian Churches, and the Eastern Jews. Mostly published in his `Memoirs...', vol ii, pt ii (London 1819).
Scope & Content:
Letters from Rev Claudius Buchanan (1766-1815), East India Company chaplain from 1797, Professor and Vice-Provost of the College of Fort William 1799-1807, mainly to Rev David Brown (1763-1812), Provost of the College, describing his journey along the Malabar Coast to Ceylon and Cochin to study H...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1806-1808
Extent:
1 volume

7. Mss Eur D762

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D762
Title:
Arthur Wellesley papers.
Scope & Content:
Letter, dated 10 Jul 1804, from Maj-Gen Arthur Wellesley (later 1st Duke of Wellington) (1769-1852), Chief Political and Military Officer in the Deccan and Southern Maratha country, to Jonathan Duncan (1756-1811), Governor of Bombay 1795-1811, about a proposed treaty with the Raja of Kolhapur.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1804
Extent:
2 folios

8. Mss Eur F292

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F292
Title:
Lars Vilgon papers.
Scope & Content:
`Maldive Odd History: the Maldive Archipelago and its People': typescript account of the Maldives by Lars Vilgon (published 1993-94)
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1993-1994
Extent:
6 volumes

9. Mss Eur F380

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F380
Title:
Forbes Family: miscellaneous papers
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous papers of the Forbes family, chiefly of James Forbes (1749-1819), East India Company servant, Bombay 1765-84, author of 'Oriental Memoirs' (1813-15), and of Sir Charles Forbes, 1st Bart (1774-1849), of Forbes and Company, Bombay, MP 1812-32.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1765-1871
Extent:
7 items

10. Mss Eur Mack Trans

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur Mack Trans
Title:
Colin Mackenzie Papers: Translations
Scope & Content:
Translations of works in Persian, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Sanskrit, Javanese, Dutch, and other languages, collected throughout his career by Col Colin Mackenzie (c1753-1821), Madras Army 1783-1821, engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian collector; also letters and reports from Mackenzie's Indian ag...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1821
Extent:
70 volumes