Political and Secret Department Miscellaneous Records
Scope & Content:
The series comprises sixty-five volumes of miscellaneous political reports, memoranda, etc, both manuscript and printed, dating mainly from the late 18th and early 19th century, most of which are duplicated elsewhere in the India Office Records or the India Office Library; and a further large qua...
Report, by Mounstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay, on the territories acquired by cession and conquest from the Peshwa of Poona, Baji Rao, in 1817/18 (ie the Konkan, Khandesh, Ahmadnagar, Poona, Satara, and the Southern Maratha Country) nd [c Aug 1820]
Copies of correspondence of Brigadier General Sir John Malcolm regarding his pursuit of the defeated Peshwa of Poona, Baji Rao, in 1818, and the terms of Baji Rao's surrender to the British (enclosure to Bombay Secret Letter of 30 Sep 1818)
Persian and English copies of the peace treaty signed between Tipu Sultan, Ruler of Mysore, and the Allied Powers (ie the East India Company, the Nizam of Hyderabad, and the Marathas) on 18 Mar 1792, also a Jamabandi (Revenue Statement) of the territories ceded by Tipu to the Company (enclosure to Bengal Political Letter of 3 Sep 1792)