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IOR/F/4/1815/74864
- Record Id:
- 041-000750856
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-000750844
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001878.0x000392
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/F/4/1815/74864
- Title:
- Employment of convicts in agriculture
- Scope & Content:
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Robert Wight writes (ff 4-12) to Government of Madras recommending convicts be employed as agricultural labourers on experimental farms. Wight notes inefficiency of existing tools used by labourers; proposes that prisoners work with European tools such as the wheelbarrow or the hoe. Recommends that tools for all kinds of craftsmen in the jails be upgraded e.g. fly-shuttle might be supplied for weavers. Recommends use on farms of “Wilkie’s improved friction wheel plough for two horses” (sketch illustration) as manufactured by Wilkie at Uddingston near Glasgow and demonstrated at a ploughing match in 1829. (ff 12-16) Government of Madras approves the suggestion of upgrading tools in jails and orders that samples of the most useful tools be made up and distributed. Resolves additionally to procure a sample of the same plough (which has already been introduced to good effect in the Deccan) from the Government of Bombay.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- Botany in British India
India Office Records - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000735919
036-000736052
040-000750844
041-000750856 - Is part of:
- IOR/F : Records of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India
IOR/F/4 : Board's Collections
IOR/F/4/1815 : Board's Collections Vol 1815
IOR/F/4/1815/74864 : Employment of convicts in agriculture - Hierarchy:
- 032-000735919[0004]/036-000736052[1819]/040-000750844[0012]/041-000750856
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/F
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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9 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/F/4/1815/74864 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1836
- End Date:
- 1837
- Date Range:
- Nov 1836-Aug 1837
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Digital copy at: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/F/4/1815/74864
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)