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Copy telegram sent to the Viceroy; Asks when will they expect a reply to a letter sent from the Legal Adviser regarding a Privy Council appeal held in June-Rampaur Kalan Estate v Nawab Shah Alam Mirza
Certificates of identity for natives (students and others) from Hyderabad State who have proceeded to England in the year 1898, or who were already in England before that year.
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Nawab Wali-ud-deen - has been at Eton for four years. Is now reading for Cambridge. Nawab Meer Ekram Hussain Khan, Nawab Meer Mukram Hussain Khan, Nawab Meer Sufdar Hussain Khan, Nawab Meer Dianath Hussain Khan - two of the boys are at Eton and two at Park Hill School under private tuition. Sy...
Returns of Certificates of Identity granted to natives of India visiting England and other countries for the quarter ending the 30th September 1900.
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Madras: Paul Appasami - to study Law and the Indian Civil Service at Cambridge. Bombay: Jal. K. R. Bomanji - to study. Hamid Moizudin Abdulali - to compete for the Indian Civil Service. Bengal: Nirmal Chundra Sen - Completion of education. North West Provinces and Oudh: Ram Chandar Gupta - to s...
Sohan Lal, accused of conspiracy. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders right profile and full-face portraits of Sohan Lal. Lal was charged with inciting Mewa Singh to murder the Vancouver immigration officer Charles W. Hopkinson. He was acquitted at his trial in December 1914.
The case of C J O'Donnell, Bengal Civil Service; appeals against his removal from his appointment as acting Joint Magistrate, deprival of power of trying cases summarily; transfer from Jessore to Mymensingh
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IOR/L/PJ/6/75, Files 784, 927, 1035 and 1060 attached
Mewa Singh, murderer of Mr Hopkinson. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders full-face and right profile portraits of Mewa Singh. Mewa Singh was executed in January 1915 for the murder of the immigration inspector Charles W. Hopkinson at Vancouver in October 1914.
Kartar Singh, accused of conspiracy to murder. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders right profile and full-face portraits of Kartar Singh, a member of the Hindu Committee during the 'Komagata Maru' incident and later accused of involvement in the murder of immigration officer Charles W. Hopkinson at Vancouver.
Hasan Rahim, accused of conspiracy to murder Mr. Hopkinson. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders right profile and full-face portraits of Hussain Rahim, a leader of the Indian community in Vancouver and editor of the newspaper 'Hindustanee.' Rahim was accused of involvement in the murder of the immigration officer Charles W. Hopkinson in Vanco...