Papers regarding the administration of Bharatpur State (Rajputana) - changes in the system of management - correspondence of the Agent in Rajputana [Colonel George St Patrick Lawrence] with the Political Agent in Bharatpur [Lieutenant Charles Kennedy Mackenzie Walter] - the Bharatpur Council of Regency to have three instead of seven members, etc.
Papers relating to Mysore State - further papers regarding the case of Humphrey Bohun Devereux, formerly Judicial Commissioner in Mysore - statement submitted by Devereux on 15 Aug 1861 and minute of the Governor General [Lord Canning] thereon dated 4 Sep 1861 (with associated correspondence)
Mutiny papers relating to Dholpur State (Rajputana) - report by Major Charles Kenneth Mackenzie Walter on the charges brought by the Magistrate of Agra against Suba Deo Hans, Minister of Dholpur State - Government of India decide not to proceed with the prosecution (includes depositions of witnesses, and, on p 117, a rough map, MS, coloured, of Iradatnagar Pargana adjoining Dholpur State)
Papers regarding Barwani State (Central India) - unfavourable report by Major Richard Hart Keatinge on the conduct of the Rana [Jaswant Singh] - the state is once more placed under British administration
Papers regarding the administration of Hyderabad State - disposal of the local funds of the Raichur and Dharaseo [Osmanabad] Districts on their re-transfer to Hyderabad - adjustments of territory under the new treaty - audit and adjustment of the accounts of the Assigned Districts [Berar] and of the Hyderabad Contingent
Papers relating to Khandesh - measures taken to protect the roads in West Khandesh from the depredations of Bhil tribesmen - deputation of Lieutenants George William Hanson and John Durham Hall to Turan Mal - report of their proceedings (includes, on p 51, a sketch map, MS, coloured, of the Satpura Hills region south west of Barwani)
Papers relating to the North West Frontier - death, on 23 Aug 1861, at Kohat, of Captain Benjamin Henderson, Deputy Commissioner of Kohat - in accordance with his death-bed recommendations distinctions are conferred on the Khatak Chief Kwaja Muhammad Khan and on Shahzada Muhammad Jambur, an Extra Assistant Commissioner
Papers relating to Central Asia - the Deputy Commissioner at Simla [Lord William Hay] reports that he has succeeded in obtaining the journal of the late Adolphe Schlagentweit who was murdered at Kashgar in 1857 - he has also come into possession of what is allegedly Schlagentweit's skull
Papers relating to British Burma - the districts of Tharrawaddy and Henzada in Lower Burma are combined into one district - consequent changes in the civil establishment