Condition of the agricultural and labouring classes during the last decade, North-West Provinces, with Appendices: Area under cultivation; Area irrigated; Wells; Revenue collections; Coercive processes; Prices of wheat, salt, &c.; Wages
Condition of the Lower Classes of the Population of India, especially in agricultural tracts, and measures for relief. (Duplicate copies of certain Reports in 221.)
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Duplicate copies of certain Reports in IOR/L/PARL/2/221.
Warren Hastings. Minutes of the House of Commons, 1 February 1787
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Duplicates of some of the Papers included in IOR/L/PARL/2/8. Appointment of Mr Larkins as Accountant-General in Bengal (2 papers). Opium contract, Mr Mackenzie’s (1780); Contract with Messrs Young and Heatley. Oudh Affairs: Letters from Mr Bristow (22 January 1777). Warren Hastings’ proceedings w...
Opium. Royal Commission. First Report, submitting Evidence and Appendices; also Vols II and III (C.7313, 7397, 7419)
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Subject of Enquiry: (1) Whether the growth of the poppy and manufacture and sale of opium should be prohibited; (2) nature of existing arrangements with natives states; (3) effect on the finances of India of the prohibition of sale and export of opium; (4) whether any change short of total prohi...
War with Tipu Sultan and assumption of the Revenues of the Carnatic
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Conduct of the forces under Brigadier-General Mathews; Disputes between Tipu Sultan and the Raja of Travancore; Cranganore and Jaycottah; Information communicated by Sir A Campbell; Attack on Travancore; Treaties with the Marathas, the Nizam, the Nawab of Arcot, and Raja of Travancore (19 papers).
Organisation of the Indian Army. Report of Commissioners, with Evidence and Appendix (C.2515). Report by Major-General Hancock (C.2516). Supplementary Papers (C.2541)
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Subjects: Transfer of the Army from the Company to the Crown. Permanent Forces necessary to be maintained. Proportion of European to Native Forces. Question of a double European Army: whether it is possible to consolidate the European Forces so as to allow of exchange from one branch to the other...