Mss Eur F126/69-77

The series contains correspondence, memorandum, reports and petititions relating to the running of the Rajputana [Rājasthān] Agency, during Lewis Pelly's time as Agent to the Governor General for Rajputana.

The correspondence focuses primarily on matters relating to the running of the agency, including administrative matters, boundary disputes, relations with local Chiefs, vacancies and appointments within the Agency, procedures and regulations, and a Durbar at Agra.

Other mattters discussed in the files are the deaths of Shambhu Singh, Maharana of Mewār and Takht Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur; a proposal by Lewis Pelly to abolish the customs line between Rajputana and the Central India States, with response from George Henry Maxwell Batten, Commissioner of Inland Customs; and a Manual of Agriculture for use within Ajmer District.

Key correspondents within the series include: Charles Umpherston Aitchison (Foreign Secretary, Government of India), Philip Henderson Durham (Secretary to the Government of India); Evelyn Baring (Private Secretary to the Viceroy); William Earle (Military Secretary to the Viceroy); Charles William Burton (Political Agent, Bīkāner); Donald Robertson (Political Agent, Beāwar); John Allen Wright (Political Agent, Hāraoti); Charles Kenneth Mackenzie Walter (Political Agent, Jaipur); Henry Byam Abbot (Assistant to the Agent Governor General); Charles Allan Baylay (Assistant to the Agent Governor General); William Howell Beynon (Political Agent, Jaipur); Leslie Seymour Saunders (Commissioner at Ajmer); William Carnell (Erinpura Irregular Force); James Dawson Macdonald (Deoli Irregular Force); John Dobrée Woolcombe (Brigadier-General, Nasīrābād); Thomas Cadell (Political Agent, Alwar); Arthur William Roberts (Assistant to Agent Governor General); Alexander Ross Elliot Hutchinson (Political Agent, Gwalior); James Cavan Berkeley (Malwa); Charles Shuttleworth (Political Agent, Nasīrābād); Charles William Burton; Adelbert Cecil Talbot.