Miscellaneous: including notes of conversation between Governors of Madras and Bombay on abolition of Presidential Armies, decentralization, and native agency (ie Indianization of Revenue and Settlement Depts); conversations between Grant Duff and Government of India officials on various administ...
Miscellaneous: marked 'Confidential Papers': minutes by Grant Duff, Lord Roberts and others on the abolition of the Madras Army, the possibility of a Russian invasion of India, the annexation of Burma, the Ilbert Bill, railway policy, native volunteers, land revenue settlements, the native press,...
Financial: provincial accounts 1884-85; alleged tendency of excise system to increase intemperance; copy of Bombay Financial Letter to Government of India reporting on that Presidency's financial position
Public Works Department: Selections from the Proceedings of the Madras Government in the Public Works Department: waterworks and irrigation systems in the Godavari, Kistna and Cauvery deltas; and the Penner Anicut Dated as: Madras 1883
Madras Government - attacks on: William Digby's India for Indians and for England (London 1885); manifestos of Indian Vigilance League founded by Stevens Howard (alias Holt) and confidential report on it; correspondence with Viceroy and others concerning attacks on Grant Duff by Messrs Norton and...
Expenses, etc: Governor's travelling expenses by rail; question of official presents received by Governor; Government House expenses Dated as: 1884; nd; 1886
Miscellaneous: letter to Grant Duff from Edmund Forster Webster, Secretary, Madras Revenue Dept, regarding his discussions with the India Office on proposals for grading the Civil Service, land settlement and revenue collection, and other matters