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Mss Eur F231/9, f76
- Record Id:
- 041-002302372
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002302141
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001953.0x000294
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F231/9, f76
- Title:
- Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith
- Scope & Content:
- [Refers to Vernon Smith's letter of 9 May]; strongly opposes suggestion Govt of India should take foreign legions into its service; they would be unsuitable for India's military requirements and their cost would therefore be unjustified – 'I say confidently that a new legion of Sikhs or Ghoorkahs would be greatly preferable … and would cost half the money'; reduction of army while increasing its efficiency key to reducing expenditure, since civil reductions will be counterbalanced by increased expenditure on judicial, educational and police services; above all quartering foreign legions in India would be politically dangerous; England holds India both by the sword and by moral influence, and proposal would tend to undermine belief of Indian Princes that England has inexhaustible supplies of English troops; Crimean war has already somewhat impaired that belief.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002302141
036-002302142
040-002302353
041-002302372 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur F231 : Papers of Robert Vernon Smith, 1st Baron Lyveden (1800-73) as President of the Board of Control 1855-58
Mss Eur F231/1-11 : Letterbooks of correspondence with the Governor-General of India, the Governors of Madras and Bombay and others
Mss Eur F231/9 : Letters from Lord Canning Vol 1
Mss Eur F231/9, f76 : Letter from Canning to Vernon Smith - Hierarchy:
- 032-002302141[0001]/036-002302142[0009]/040-002302353[0019]/041-002302372
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F231
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1856
- End Date:
- 1856
- Date Range:
- 17 Jun 1856
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)