Mutiny papers relating to Nepal - report received from Nepal that the Nana Sahib is somewhere in the jungles north west of Butwal - demi-official correspondence between Edward Clive Bayley and Thomas Douglas Forsyth regarding sending Ram Singh into Nepal to look for the Nana
Papers relating to Oudh - account of the durbar held by the Governor General [Lord Canning] for the Talukdars and chief landholders of Oudh at Lucknow on 5 Nov 1861 - agreement of the Talukdars to use their best efforts to suppress the practice of female infanticide (a list of the 231 Talukdars who signed the declaration against female infanticide appears on pp 21-24, and a list of the 168 Talukdars who were present at the durbar, on pp 25-27)
Letter from HM Foreign Secretary [Lord Russell] to HM Secretary of State for India [Sir Charles Wood] communicating the rules to be observed in the British overseas possessions with respect to vessels of either of the two sides in the American Civil War
Papers regarding the ex-Amirs of Sind - intention of Muhammad Ali Khan, one of the ex-Amirs, to return to Sind towards the end of the year 1861 - memorandum of John Pollard Willoughby on the allowances of the ex-Amirs and the lands to be granted to those ex-Amirs who return to Sind
Account of the durbar held by the Governor General [Lord Canning] at Benares on 7 Nov 1861, in which he received a deputation of the city's inhabitants
Papers relating to Oudh - claim of the Khas Mahal Begam, ex-Queen of Oudh, to the Alambagh and Khas Manzil in Lucknow - Government of India reject both claims
Papers relating to the former Royal Family of Oudh - the advance of £6000 paid in England to Prince Hamid Ali, son of the ex-King of Oudh [Wajid Ali Shah], is repaid by monthly deductions of 5000 rupees from the ex-King's stipend