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This page gives details of materials relevant to 1940s Calcutta, which although unpublished can be accessed at certain archives and libraries.
The list is of course not comprehensive (most material presented is located in the UK) and any additions (especially ralating to archives in India, especially Calcutta) woud be greatly welcome.
Where the records shown below can be accessed, is indicated by the reference given after the title (in brackets).
for: (PRO Reference )
These
records can be accessed at the “Public record Office in Kew”
(for details see section “Libraries &
Collections” on page “Related Organisations & Institutions”.)
The letters in the PRO
Reference have the following meaning:
ADM – Records of the Admiralty,
Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
AIR – Records created or
inherited by the Air Ministry, the Royal Air Force, and related bodies
AVIA – Records created or
inherited by the Ministry of Aviation and successors, the Air Registration
Board, and related bodies
BT – Records of the Board of
Trade and of successor and related bodies
CAB – Records of the Cabinet
Office
CN – Photographic prints and
negatives extracted from various record series
CO – Records of the Colonial
Office, Commonwealth and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, Empire Marketing Board, and related
bodies
CSC – Records of the Civil
Service Commission
DF – Records created and
acquired by the Natural History Museum, London
DO – Records created or inherited
by the Dominions Office, and of the Commonwealth Relations and
Foreign and Commonwealth Offices
DSIR – Records created or
inherited by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and of
related bodies
DT – Records of the General Nursing
Council for England and Wales
DV – Records of the Central
Midwives Board
FO – Records created and
inherited by the Foreign Office
HO – Records created or
inherited by the Home Office, Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies
HS – Records of Special
Operations Executive
HW – Records created and
inherited by Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
INF – Records created or
inherited by the Central Office of Information
IR – Records of the Boards of
Stamps, Taxes, Excise, Stamps and Taxes, and Inland Revenue
KV – Records of the Security
Service
LCO – Records of the Lord
Chancellor's Office and of various legal commissions and committees
MAF – Records created or
inherited by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and of related
bodies
MINT – Records of the Royal Mint
MT – Records created or
inherited by the Transport Departments and of related bodies, and of the London
Passenger Transport Board
PIN – Records created or
inherited by the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, and of related
and successor bodies
PREM – Records of the Prime
Minister's Office
T – Records created and
inherited by HM Treasury
WO – Records created or
inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
for: (BL
shelfmark)
These
record can be accessed at the “British Library”
(for details see section “Libraries &
Collections” on page “Related Organisations & Institutions”.)
for: (OIOC Series )
These
record can be accessed at the “Oriental and India Office Collections at the
British Library”
(for details see section “Libraries &
Collections” on page “Related Organisations & Institutions”.)
as well as http://www.bl.uk/collections/oiocfamilyhistory/familyeccles.html
A – East
India Company: Charters, Deeds, Statutes and Treaties c1550-c1950
B – East
India Company: Minutes of the Court of Directors and Court of Proprietors
1599-1858
C – Council
of India Minutes and Memoranda 1858-1947
D – East
India Company: Minutes and Memoranda of General Committees 1700-1858
E – East
India Company: General Correspondence 1602-1859 - See A2A
F – Board
of Control Records 1784-1858 - See A2A
G – East
India Company Factory Records c1595-1858 - See A2A
H – India
Office Home Miscellaneous Series c1600-1900
I – Records
relating to other Europeans in India 1475-1824
J&K – East
India College, Haileybury, Records, and Records of other institutions 1749-1925
- See
A2A
L – India
Office Departmental Records
L/AG – India
Office: Accountant-General's Records c1601-1974 - See A2A
L/E – India
Office: Economic Department Records c1876-1950
L/F – India
Office: Financial Department Records c1800-1948 - See A2A
L/I – India
Office: Information Department Records 1921-1949
L/L – India
Office: Legal Adviser's Records c1550-c1950 - See A2A
L/MAR – India
Office: Marine Records c1600-1879
L/MED – India
Office: Medical Board Records c1920-1960
L/MIL – India
Office: Military Department Records 1708-1959 - See A2A
L/PARL – India
Office: Parliamentary Branch Records c1772-1952
L/PO – Secretary
of State for India: Private Office Papers 1858-1948 - See A2A
L/PWD – India
Office: Public Works Department 1839-1931
L/P&J – India
Office: Public and Judicial Department Records 1795-1950 - See A2A
L/P&S – India
Office: Political and Secret Department Records 1756-c1950
L/R – India
Office: Record Department Papers 1859-1959
L/SUR – India
Office: Surveyor's Office Records 1837-1934
L/S&G – India
Office: Services and General Department Records c1920-c1970
L/WS – India
Office: War Staff Papers 1921-1951
M – Burma
Office Records 1932-1948 - See A2A
N – Returns
of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1698-1969
O – Biographical
Series 1702-1948
P – Proceedings
and Consultations 1702-1945
Q – Commission,
Committee and Conference Records c1895-1947
R – Records
received in London and incorporated in India Office Records
R/1 – India:
Crown Representative: Political Department Indian States Records 1880-1947
R/2 – India:
Crown Representative: Indian States Residencies Records c1789-1947
R/3 – India:
Viceroy's Private Office Papers and other Government Records 1899-1948
R/4 – India:
British High Commission Cemetery Records c1870-1967
R/5 – Nepal:
Kathmandu Residency Records c1792-1872
R/8 – Burma:
Records of the Governor's Office 1942-1947
R/9 – Malaya:
Malacca Orphan Chamber and Council of Justice Records c1685-1835
R/10 – China:
Canton Factory Records 1623-1841
R/12 – Afghanistan:
Kabul Legation Records 1923-1948
R/15 – Gulf
States: Records of the Bushire, Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat and Trucial States
Agencies 1763- 1951
R/19 – Egypt:
Records of the Cairo, Alexandria and Suez Agencies 1832-1870
R/20 – Aden:
Records of the British Administrations in Aden 1837-1967
S – Linguistic
Survey of India c1900-c1930
V – India
Office Records Official Publications Series c1760-1957
W, X & Y – India
Office Records Map Collections c1700-c1960
Z – Original
Registers and Indexes to Records Series c1700-1950
Separately bound indexes and
registers bear the prefix letter 'Z'
Followed by the letter of the
class to which they relate.
The contemporary indexes for each
class are also included in the Summary List
of records for that class.
for: (LibCongr SONIC Shelf
no.)
These records can be accessed at SONIC Sound ONline
Inventory and Catalog of the US Library of Congress. for more detail see http://catalog.loc.gov/
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The papers of the late Louis, Earl Mountbatten of
Burma, and Edwina, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, form part of University of
Southampton Library MS62, the Broadlands archives.
These are held in In the Special Collections section
of University of Southhampton
more information at http://www.archives.lib.soton.ac.uk/mountbatten.shtml
Access to this database is by permission only.
Inquire about database access.
The first section of the Mountbatten Papers Database
contains a glossary of acronyms and abbreviations used in the detailed
catalogue descriptions of papers for Lord Mountbatten's command in South East
Asia, relating to the transfer of power in India and of photograph albums.
This is followed by, firstly, a summary catalogue
and then detailed catalogue descriptions of sections of the archive. The
summary catalogue includes brief descriptions of the papers of the late Earl
and Countess Mountbatten of Burma, together with family papers, a series of
photograph albums and photographs and BR70-90, which is the political
correspondence of William Wilfrid Ashley from the Broadlands estate papers.
Complementary to this summary catalogue are detailed
descriptions of papers focusing on sections of the archive, specifically Lord
Mountbatten as Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, for the transfer of
power in India, and of some photograph albums.
The summary catalogue contains brief descriptions of
the following sub-divisions of papers:
MB1/A Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: private
papers, 1900-48
MB1/B Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: Fifth
Destroyer Flotilla and Combined Operations, 1939-43
MB1/C Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: South
East Asia Command, 1943-6
MB1/D Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: official
papers as last Viceroy and first Governor General of India, 1947-8
MB1/E Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma:
correspondence files, 1946-8
MB1/F Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: First
Cruiser Squadron, 1948-50
MB1/G Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: Fourth
Sea Lord, 1950-2
MB1/H Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: Commander
in Chief Mediterranean and Commander in Chief Allied Forces Mediterranean,
1952-4
MB1/I Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: First Sea
Lord, 1955-9
MB1/J Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: Chief of
Defence Staff, 1959-65
MB1/K Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: civilian
life, 1965-79
MB1/L Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma:
organisations, 1937-82
MB1/M Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: speeches
and broadcasts
MB1/N Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma:
miscellaneous (recurrent subjects), 1921-81
MB1/O Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma:
miscellaneous
MB1/P Papers of Edwina, Countess Mountbatten of
Burma: correspondence files, 1923-47
MB1/Q Papers of Edwina, Countess Mountbatten of
Burma: correspondence files, 1947-8
MB1/R Papers of Edwina, Countess Mountbatten of
Burma: correspondence files, 1948-60
MB1/T Papers of Prince Louis of Battenberg (Louis
Alexander Mountbatten, first Marquis of Milford Haven from 1917): naval and
personal papers, 1868-1921, 1962-79
MB1/U Papers of the German branch of the Mountbatten
family
MB1/W Papers of William Wilfrid Ashley, Baron Mount
Temple: political and private correspondence, 1898-1938
MB1/X Papers of Sir Ernest Cassel, 1887-1920
MB1/Y Milford Haven family papers
MB1/Z Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma:
correspondence with Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman
MB2/A Photograph albums: Prince Louis of Battenberg
(Louis Alexander Mountbatten, first Marquis of Milford Haven, from 1917)
MB2/B Photograph albums: Princess Louise of
Battenberg (later Queen of Sweden); Victoria, Princess Louis of Battenberg
(Marchioness of Milford Haven from 1917)
MB2/C Photograph albums: Nona Kerr (Mrs Richard
Crichton), lady in waiting to Victoria, Princess Louis of Battenberg
MB2/D Photograph albums: Prince George of Battenberg
(second Marquis of Milford Haven)
MB2/E Photograph albums: Prince Alexander of Hesse;
Prince Gregory Gargarine
MB2/F Photograph albums: Baroness Sophie Buxhoevden;
Elisabeth, Grand Duchess Serge
MB2/G Photograph albums: royal families in Europe;
Montenegrin family
MB2/H Photograph albums: Evelyn Ashley; Sybella
Ashley; Maud Ashley (nee Cassel); William Wilfrid Ashley, Baron Mount Temple;
sketch book of Emily, Viscountess Palmerston
MB2/I Presentation albums: Sir Ernest Cassel
MB2/J Visitors and calling books, 1884-1956
MB2/K Photograph albums: Edwina, Countess
Mountbatten of Burma, 1920-2
MB2/L Photograph albums: visits and tours by Edwina,
Countess Mountbatten of Burma, including the honeymoon tour of Lord and Lady
Mountbatten, 1922-45
MB2/M Photograph albums: visits by Edwina, Countess
Mountbatten of Burma, 1932-60
MB2/N Photograph albums: Earl Mountbatten of Burma,
1904-80
MB2/O Articles and photographs of houses, including
Brook House, London, and 2 Wilton Crescent
MB2/P Address books, stamp and coin collections
MB2/Q Photograph albums, including of Mahatma Gandhi
and of India; photographs, shooting script for In which we serve
MB2/R Photograph albums: visits by Earl and Countess
Mountbatten of Burma, 1939-59
MB2/S Photograph albums: visits by Earl Mountbatten
of Burma, 1939-76
MB2/T Game books: Classiebawn, County Sligo,
Ireland; Adsdean; Broadlands estate; Lord Mountbatten's personal game book
MB2/U Account books, Broadlands estate books, cash
and personal expenditure analysis books
MB3 Photographs, including for SACSEA, India, Chief
of Defence Staff; family photographs for the Russian imperial family,
Battenberg and Mountbatten families, Cassel and Ashley families, the royal
family
MB5 Bound volumes, mainly naval notes of Earl
Mountbatten of Burma and inventories and lists of articles of Adsdean and Brook
House
MB7 Press cuttings, 1921, 1944-85
MB11 Papers of Victoria, Princess Louis of
Battenberg (Marchioness of Milford Haven from 1917); lists of books read:
extracts of books; copies and translations of poems
MB12 Papers of Nona Kerr (Mrs Richard Crichton),
lady in waiting to Victoria, Princess Louis of Battenberg
BR70-99 Papers of William Wilfrid Ashley, Baron
Mount Temple
There are detailed catalogue descriptions for the
following sub-division of papers:
MB1/C1-99 South East Asia Command, 1943-6
MB1/C100-99 South East Asia Command, 1943-6
MB1/C200-99 South East Asia Command, 1943-6
MB1/C300-28 South East Asia Command, 1943-6
MB1/D3-20 Official papers as last Viceroy and first
Governor General of India, 1947-8
MB1/D21-40 Official papers as last Viceroy and first
Governor General of India, 1947-8
MB1/D41-60 Official papers as last Viceroy and first
Governor General of India, 1947-8
MB1/D61-80 Official papers as last Viceroy and first
Governor General of India, 1947-8
MB2/A-K Mountbatten photograph albums, 1859-1940
MB2/L-N
Mountbatten photograph albums, 1904-80
(E.B.H. Baker)
Lent by Mrs. I. Baker
Microfilm Box 6 No. 45
Letters of Baker to his parents and others, 25
January 1931 to December 1932: from Madaripur where he writes he is transferred
to Hijli as Governor of the Detention Camp for Political Prisoners at
Kharagpur; arrives February 1931; conditions in the camp; description of
detainees; comments on Gandhi; letter written on 17 September 1931 describing
the incident in the camp when two detainees were killed and five wounded; the
consequences; Tagore's intervention; the Official Inquiry (Mullick and
Drummond); November in Sikkim on leave; result of the Inquiry and consequences;
leaves Hijli; Congress intrigue; reason for unrest - unemployment of the
educated; goes to Alipur (Duar Subdivision) very quiet; description of place
and work; near another detainees camp; missionaries; he feels the lack of money
for social reform; tours tea gardens; at Rajshahi describes Christmas party
with Anglo-Indians; description of Busca Detainees Camp.
Pamphlet: 'Chittagong and Hijli: British
"Misrule" in Bengal', published by J.M. Sen-Gupta. Foreword by
Rabindranath Tagore. 'Being the Report of the non-official Enquiry Committee on
Recent Disturbances in Chittagong, and the Government Committee of Enquiry on
Hijli Shooting.'
'Travel Diary Journal' (possibly amalgamated from
diaries) Volume I, November 1927 - October 1932:
Assistant Magistrate Dacca, 10 December 1927-25
November 1928; Assistant Magistrate and Collector on Settlement Training,
Burdwan District, 1928 - March 1929; Sub-Divisional Officer Rampurhat, Birbhum
District, 7 April - 31 October 1929; Sub-Divisional Officer Madaripur, November
1929 - February 1931; Commandant, Hijli Detention Camp; Kharagpur, February -
October 1931; detailed account of the camp, its running, inmates, the incident
of the shooting and consequences; Special Officer Political Department
Calcutta, November 1931 - January 1932, writing history sheets of eighty
prominent Congressmen for action, under the Emergency Powers Ordinance should
civil disobedience recommence; results of Gandhi's arrival in Bombay and the
Viceroy's refusal to discuss the N.W.F.P., U.P. and Bengal ordinances with him;
renewal of civil disobedience and consequences; leave. At the back of the
volume are accounts. 'Travel Diary', volume II, October 1932 - October 1936:
Sub-Divisional Officer Alipur-Duar, Jalpaiguri
District, November 1932 - February 1933. Very little crime and no political
trouble.
Assistant District Magistrate Myemsingh District,
February - September 1933. Account of internal running of the District.
District Magistrate, Myemsingh, August - October 1933.
Special Officer, Revenue Department, Calcutta,
November 1933 - February 1934. Inside story of writing an annual Administration
Report; Calcutta social life. Additional District and Sessions Judge, Alipore,
February - May 1934.
District and Sessions Judge, Burdwan, June - October
1934; November - December 1934. Inexperience of civil law.
Joint Magistrate, Burdwan, December 1934.
Inspections, etc.; few days in Calcutta; Viceregal Ball, Belvedere.
District and Sessions Judge, Dacca, January -
September 19 35. Importance of job for which he feels inexperienced; society
and social life in Dacca; describes work of district judge; assessment of his
own ability; describes some unscrupulous judges.
Special Officer Revenue Department, Calcutta,
November 1935 - February 1936. Writing administration report.
Special Officer Political Department, Calcutta,
February 1936. Working on matters arising in connection with the new
constitution; lists the social activities of the era; reaction in Bengal to
king George's death. Additional District and Sessions Judge, Howrah, February -
March 1936.
On leave.
'Travel Diary' Volume III, October 1936 - March
1941:
Leave until 16 November 1936.
District and Sessions Judge, Noakhali, November 1936
- February 1937. Very quiet; goes on to Krishnagar for Christmas; elections for
new Provincial Assembly.
Special Officer, Judicial Department, Calcutta,
February - April 1937. Firstly to frame certain rules for the conduct of the
official Assignee under the amended Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, etc.;
light work; Darjeeling in hot weather. Special Officer, Legislative Department,
Calcutta, April - October 1937. Very little work.
Attaché, Legislative Department, Government of
India, November 1937 - April 1938. Goes to Delhi to train in Secretariat; work
more interesting; sits in on Councils of State and Legislative Assemblies.
District and Sessions Judge, Rajshahi and Malda,
April - August 1938. Enjoys Rajshahi; floods; life on the station. Leave to get
married.
District and Sessions Judge, Rajshahi and Malda,
October 1938.
Special Officer Legislative Department and
Secretary, Calcutta, November 1938 - September 1940. Outline of work, social
and domestic life, between Calcutta and Darjeeling, and outside world in
progress of the war; picture of Darjeeling in the days of 1940, and Calcutta;
work in Calcutta, Bengal Cooperative Societies Bill, etc.
Additional Secretary to Governor of Bengal, August 1940
- September 1943. Criticisms of the Governor; criticisms of Viceregal Staff
during the war; daily life in Governor's household; war efforts in India,
1941-42; comments on India's production of war material, but these are brief as
are comments on Burma refugees; mentions Japanese invasion of Andamans brings
war nearer, and defence measures more serious; results of the war in the Far
East were felt in Calcutta, great changes there; 1943 goes on tour with the
Governor, inspecting A.R.P., etc., and collecting purses for war effort and
attending mass meetings; March - May Constitutional muddle in Bengal, but
famine beginning and Lord Wavell's appointment as Viceroy 'a decided shock';
the river tour proposed for Governor abandoned on police advice; famine relief
and control; Sir Thomas Rutherford takes over as Acting Governor; Viceroy
visits famine areas, results good; Governors conference November 1943; death of
Sir John Herbert, 11 December. Receives O.B.E., 1944.
Joint Secretary Home Department, February - June
1944. In charge of Constitution and elections, jails, etc.
Acts as Additional Secretary Home Department June -
July 1944. Joint Secretary July - October 1944. Additional Secretary and
Provincial Transport Controller November 1944 - March 1945. Obtains Government
agreement to the appointment of a full time transport Commissioner. Leave for
England, four months.
Legislative Secretary, October - December 1945,
Calcutta, without family. Not much work; comments on Congress and the lifting
of restrictions.
Sent in February 1946 to Alipore as Additional
District and Sessions Judge 24 Parganas. Difficulty in returning to court life
and practice; April - October 1946, normal life of a magistrate, joined by his
wife; October 1946 - February 1947, normal court life; to Dacca in February
1947 for trials of riot cases, the Muslim Ministry wanted a European Judge to
try Communal cases.
The diary tails off in March - May 1947, after a
note about rioting. The journal is interspersed with detailed accounts of the
progress of the war, and the accounts of his journeys home on leave and what he
did, also of local leave; it gives nothing like the picture of his life in
India which can be drawn from his letters home. Letters home, 1927 - 1928, 1929
- 1930, 1933: these are a most vivid and interesting 'fill-in' to the journal;
he writes as a young and inexperienced official of all the details which strike
him, and thus gives a vivid picture of the life of the administrator both from
the work, the people, the stations and European life there; he goes into great
detail and provides most interesting sidelights.
Bound copies of some of the main records of the
central and provincial governments in India were routinely sent ot London for
the information of the East India Company and the India Office. Before 1860
these records were usually known as 'Consultations' and mostly comprise
manuscript copies of the correspondence, minutes and resolutions of the
governments concerned. From 1860 onwards the Proceedings are mainly printed
copies of the official business of Government departments, and include papers
on the more important administrative measures only. After 1921 Proceedings
gradually ceased to be routinely transmitted to London. For each government the
list of proceedings is arranged by department or branch, and then
chronologically. The list is in twelve parts: 1 Introduction; 2 Bengal; 3
India; 4 Madras; 5 Bombay; 6 United Provinces; 7 Punjab; 8 Assam; 9 Bihar and
Orissa; 10 Central Provinces; 11 Burma; 12 Other Administrations.
The Council acted primarily as a reviewing or
advisory body for the Secretary of State for India. Much of the work of the
India Office is represented in the Council's minutes and memoranda, but fuller
documentation usually lies in the correspondence and papers of India Office
departments (see L below). The minutes of the Advisers to the Secretary of
State (the body which superseded the Council in 1937) are also included.
The Parliamentary Branch of the Record Department
(see L/R below) was established in 1899 to handle the preparation and recording
of Parliamentary Papers concerned with India. The records also include a series
of India Office answers to Parliamentary Questions.
Papers relating to issues on which Secretaries of
State acted personally were kept by the private secretaries and not registered
in India Office departments. Increasingly after about 1904 Secretaries of
State, on retirement or resignation, left such papers in the Private Office.
The papers thus left concern major political and constitutional issues,
including relations with princely state and foreign governments.
This collection was transferred to the British High
Commission in New Delhi, and then to the Commonwealth Relations Office, in 1947
and 1948. It consists of secret files on Indian State matters, selected from
Political Department records in India concerning paramountcy (the special authority
exercised by the Viceroy as 'His Majesty's Representative for the Exercise of
the Functions of the Crown in its Relations with Indian States'), the affairs
of particular states and rulers, and honours and political service questions.
The files contain correspondence with rulers, with central government officials
('Residents' and 'Political Agents') in Indian States, and with the India
Office.
These records, from the offices of Residents and
Political Agents in Indian States, were transferred to London in the same
process as the Political Department records (see R/1 above). They were selected
on the same criteria, and include correspondence with state authorities, with
the Political Department, and with provincial governments. The records are
arranged by Residencies and Political Agencies: Baroda and Gujarat States;
Central India; Eastern States; Gwalior (with Rampur and Benares); Hyderabad;
Kashmir; Kolhapur and Deccan States; Madras States; Mysore; Punjab Hill States;
Rajputana; and Western India States. Few series contain files earlier than
1880, although Mysore Commission records and Bombay Political Department
records (for Kolhapur and Western India) date from c1800.
Weekly correspondence of William Francis
Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel (b 1906), as Secretary of State for India Apr- Aug
1947, with Lord Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), Viceroy of India Mar-Aug
1947; also letters, dated 1968 and 1978, relating to the appointments of Wavell
and Mountbatten as Viceroy, and Listowel's as Secretary of State.
1 portfolio 1943 - 1947 View Contents List
`74 Days in `47': typescript copy of diary,
dated 3 Jun-15 Aug 1947, with explanatory notes dated 1987, by William Hanbury
Saumarez Smith (b 1911), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1934-47, Deputy Private
Secretary to the Governor of Bengal 1946-47, describing the last days of
British rule in Bengal.
36 folios
1947 - 1947
Comments by India Office officials, and Sir
Atul Chandra Chatterjee and Sir Torick Ameer Ali (both Advisers to the
Secretary of State for India) on Horace Gundry Alexander and his lectures on
'Conflict and Co-operation in Modern History' delivered at Calcutta University
Mar 1943 (published 1944).
6 folios; 54 pages 1945 - 1945
Pinnell Collection: papers of Leonard
George Pinnell (1896-1979), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1920-47, Director of
Civil Supplies, Bengal 1942-43; co-ordinator of Bengal Government's evidence to
Famine Enquiry Commission 1943-44, Principal of of training course for military
officers returning to civil administration 1944-45; Chairman, Bengal
Development Board 1946-47; also printed speeches by Governors of Bengal
1936-46.
39 items
1932 - 1948 View Contents
List
Wavell Collection: xerox copies of papers
of Field Marshal Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883- 1950),
as Viceroy of India 1943-47.
18 volumes 1943 - 1947 View Contents List
Davies Collection: papers and
correspondence of Vincent Ellis Davies (b 1903), Indian Civil Service, Bihar
and Orissa 1926-47, Private Secretary to Governor of Orissa 1941-44, including
tour diaries 1936-39 as Deputy Commissioner, Santal Parganas, tour programmes
1941-44 of the Governor of Orissa, a diary of life in Muzaffarpur District
after independence Jan-Jun 1948, and memoirs of his career 1925-47.
78 items
1908 - 1993 View Contents
List
Templewood Collection: correspondence and
papers of Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount Templewood (1880-1959) as
Secretary of State for India 1931-35, with other papers on Indian affairs.
87 items
1931 - 1954 View Contents
List
Hallett Collection: official papers and
correspondence of Sir Maurice Garnier Hallett (1883-1969), Indian Civil Service
1907-45; Secretary, Home Dept, Government of India 1932-36, Governor of Bihar
1937-39, Governor of United Provinces 1939-45.
73 items
1935 - 1945 View Contents
List
Reid Collection: papers and diaries of Sir
Robert Niel Reid (1883-1964), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1907-42, Governor of
Assam 1937-42, Acting Governor of Bengal 1938 and 1939.
91 items
1918 - 1964 View Contents
List
Tyson Collection: papers of Sir John Dawson
Tyson (1893-1976), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1920-47; Secretary to Agent of
the Government of India in South Africa 1927-30; Private Secretary to Governor
of Bengal 1930-35, 1938, 1945-47; chiefly comprising weekly letters home
(1920-47) giving detailed accounts of his activities both private and official.
48 items
1920 - 1947 View Contents
List
Correspondence and papers of Sir Frank
Herbert Brown (1868-1959), journalist in India, later London correspondent of
'Times of India'; editorial staff of `The Times' 1929-54 for Indian and Eastern
affairs.
9 items
1929 - 1946 View Contents
List
Brabourne Collection: papers of Michael
Herbert Rudolph Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne (1895-1939) as Governor of
Bombay 1933-37, Governor of Bengal 1937-39, and Acting Viceroy of India Jun-Oct
1938.
86 items
1933 - 1939 View Contents
List
Butler Collection: correspondence and
papers of Sir (Spencer) Harcourt Butler (1869-1938), Indian Civil Service,
United Provinces 1890-1928; Foreign Secretary, Government of India 1908-10;
Education Member, Governor- General's Council 1910-15; Lieutenant-Governor of
Burma 1915-18; Lieutenant-Governor 1918, and Governor 1921-22 of United
Provinces; Governor of Burma 1923-27; Chairman, Indian States Committee 1928.
112 items
1881 - 1938 View Contents
List
Laithwaite Collection: correspondence,
papers and photographs of Sir (John) Gilbert Laithwaite (1894-1986), India and
Burma Office official 1919-47; Private Secretary to Viceroy 1936-43;
Commonwealth Relations Office 1947-59, Permanent Under- Secretary 1955-59;
Deputy Chairman 1960-64 and Director 1964-69 of Inchcape & Co. Ltd.
212 items
1916 - 1974 View Contents
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Indian Political Service Collection:
memoirs of some thirty-five former members of the Indian Political Service, or
their wives, describing their experiences, chiefly in the period 1920-1947, as
political officers in the Indian States, the North-West Frontier Province,
Baluchistan, or the Residencies and Consulates in the Persian Gulf.
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1920 - 1947 View Contents
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Miscellaneous papers of Sir James David
Sifton (1878-1952), Indian Civil Service 1902-37, Governor of Orissa 1932-36,
of Bihar 1936-37; including reports on settlement operations in Hazaribagh and
Singhbhum, newspaper special editions on the Bihar earthquake of 1934, daily
engagement book, scrapbook, and letters home.
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1901 - 1958 View Contents
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Copies of selected papers of Pulin Behari
Seal (1900-?83), journalist and Indian political activist in London; appointed
by C R Das representative in London of Indian National Congress and Swaraj
Party 1924-27; President, Indian Association, London 1924-27; General
Secretary, London Branch of Indian National Congress 1927-31; General
Secretary, Indian Independence League, London 1931-36; Chairman, Committee of
Indian Congressmen, London, and General, Council for the International
Recognition of Indian Independence 1941-45.
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1924 - 1947 View Contents
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This consists of 40 cassettes of Interviews with
leaders of the Communist, Peasant and Labour Movements of Bangladesh and India.
The details are:
Comrade Amal Sen (83), leader of the 'Tebhaga'
peasant movement in Bengal, led by the Communist Party. Interviewed by Shahriar
Kabir in Dhaka on 16.5.97-23.5.97. Bengali. (GC8/166-172)
Writer Mohashweta Devi, leader of the 'Adivasi'on
bonded labour and tribal movements. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta,
on 16.12.96. Bengali. (GC8/164)
Comrade Ila Mitra, leader of the Tebhaga and Nachol
peasant
uprisings, ex-MLA, leader of CPI. Interviewed by
Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta, on 18.12.96. Bengali. (GC8/162-163)
Comrade Ranesh Das Gupta (87), writer, journalist,
former organizer of a pro-communist cultural movement of Bangladesh.
Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta, on 15.7.97-29.7.97. Bengali. (GC8/209-216)
Comrade Robi Niogi (89), leader of Tebhaga and the
CPB. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Sherpur, Bangladesh, on 4.5.97. Bengali.
(GC8/175-176)
Comrade Mohadev Sanyal on labour and peasant movements
in the 40s and 50s. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Mymensingh, Bangladesh,
on 7.5.97. Bengali. (GC8/173-174)
Justice Debesh Bhattacharya (84) on communal
problems, politics and society of Bengal. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in
Dhaka, on 21.4.97. Bengali. (GC8/195)
Comrade Rejia Khatoon, ex-Congress and CPB leader on
the women's movement. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Mymensingh, Bangladesh,
on 6.5.97. Bengali.
Comrade
Kanak Mukherjee, leader of CPI (M), wife of late communist leader Saroj
Mukerjee. . Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta, on 11.4.97. Bengali.
(GC8/193)
Congress leader Monoranjan Dhar (96) on politics and
society of Bengal and Bangladesh, Liberation War. Interviewed by Shahriar
Kabir, in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, on 5.5.97. Bengali. (GC8/194)
Comrade Abani Lahiri (87) of the CPI, on the Tebhaga
peasant uprising. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta, on 2.2.99.
Bengali. (GC8/221-222)
Comrade Ramen Sen (90) ex MP, first C.C. member of
the CPI, during the formation. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta, on
29.10.98. Bengali. (GC8/217-218)
Prof. Samar Guha (80), ex MP and General Secretary
of the Forward Block and Proja Socialist Party. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir,
in Calcutta, on 9.5.98. Bengali. (GC8/219- 220)
Niharenda Dutta Majumdar (93) of the Indian National
Congress and Indian Labour Party, on the Anti-British Freedom Struggle.
Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta, on 27.1.98. Bengali. (GC8/227-228)
Comrade Pannalal Das Gupta (96) of the RCPI, on the
Anti-British Freedom Struggle and the Communist Movement of India. Interviewed
by Shahriar Kabir, in Shantiniketon, West Bengal, on 17.1.98. Bengali.
(GC8/225-226)
Comrade Sharadindu Dastidar, former CPI leader,
Revolutionary Communist League, on the Communist Movement of India and
Bangladesh. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Chittagong, Bangladesh, on
8.7.99. Bengali. (GC8/ 223-224)
Urdu poet Kaifi Ajmi on the pro-communist cultural movement
(IPTA) of Bangladesh and India and the Bangladesh Liberation War, and Shawkat
Kaifi, actress, former IPTA activist, and wife of Kaifi. Interviewed by
Shahriar Kabir, in Mumbay, India, on 16.1.97. Urdu. (GC8/191)
On Santhal Pot and songs on Netajee Subhas Bose,
leader of the Freedom Struggle of India. Recorded by Shahriar Kabir in Barasat,
West Bengal at a handicraft fair on 29.1.00
Various small collections received from India in the
1940s: Viceroy's Private Office files (1899-1948) on honours matters and
political questions (including Gandhi and civil disobedience); and provincial
government records (1932-1947), including Bengal Secretariat files on political
affairs and some Punjab police files. A guide has been published for part of
the collection: A.K. Jasbir Singh, Gandhi and Civil Disobedience: Documents in
the India Office Records 1922-1946 (London, 1980).
Papers of special investigating or deliberative
bodies mostly working in India or Britain, deposited in the India Office by the
authorities concerned. Chiefly unpublished proceedings and minutes of evidence,
the records also include papers of official participants in international
conferences. Among bodies represented are the Indian Statutory Commission, the
Indian Round Table Conferences and the Indian Franchise Committee.
Papers of Baron Chorley of Kendal, relating to Lord
Chorley's membership of the Parliamentary Delegation to India,
1946.
Given by the Hon. Mrs G. Goodwin.
22 December and 24 December 1945. From the India
Office. Xeroxed memorandum issued by the Bureau of Public Information,
Government of India, for the benefit of the Parliamentary Delegation, in form
of brief precis of comments by Indian Leaders to the Press indicative of their
attitudes to the Delegation. The leaders in question are: Pandit Nehru,
Purshottam Das Tandon and Sir Maharaj Singh.
22 December 1945. Information Department, India
Office. Xeroxed note for Delegation members with precis of comments made in
Indian newspapers about the proposed Parliamentary Delegation.
Official list of Guest Rooms in The Viceroy's House,
New Delhi for the period from 5-7 January 1946.
Official list, headed New Delhi, 1945-46, of
telephone numbers of personnel working in Viceroy House, also other important
numbers.
Xeroxed sheet of notes: brief biographies of people
attending the Delegation.
List of guests invited to an unspecified 'At Home',
held on 7 January 1946.
Newspaper cutting from Hindustan Times, 9 January
1946; a photograph of the British Parliamentary Delegation to Delhi.
A memorandum to Lord Chorley detailing the
engagements for 8 January 1946.
Second page of above memorandum.
A typed list giving engagements on 10 January 1946.
A typed list of engagements for 11 January 1946.
Handwritten note, unsigned, on talk given by the
Viceroy.
Typed list, headed The Lord Chorley of Kendal,
giving brief biographies of guests attending a party held on 7 January 1946.
Invitation to Lord Chorley to a party on 12 January
1946 given by Sir Bertrand and Lady Glancy.
Seating plan of Dinner given at Government House,
Peshawar on 15 January 1946.
Typed list, headed 18 January 1946 noting
appointments on that day with leading Indian personalities in various fields.
Timetable for Parliamentary Delegation for 18 and 19
January 1946.
Dinner list, dated 18 January 1946 held at
Government House.
List compiled by Parliamentary Delegation of people
interviewed in Mysore on 21 January 1946; list ranges from local dignitaries to
businessmen and journalists.
Biographical list of officials in Mysore State.
Timetable of events in Madras on 25 January 1946.
Envelope addressed to Lord Chorley, memo on back
mentions a Dr Ananda Coomarasura.
Newspaper cutting from The Mail, 24 January 1946,
deals with the Delegations meeting with Gandhi.
Tentative programme for weekend in Calcutta from
25-28 January 1946.
A list, giving brief biographies, of leading
non-officials representing different interests in Bengal who may be of interest
to, or interested in, the Delegation.
Dinner plan for 4 February 1946 attended by the
Viceroy and members of the Delegation. (2 copies).
Portion of notepad which makes references to
terrorist activities in Bengal, mentions problems of running down the I.C.S.
and refers to Trade Unions.
Mr Mullock was a European working in Calcutta
between 1929 and 1937. He worked in Bombay between 1937 and 1948, with a brief
interlude in Belgaum, and returned to Calcutta in 1948 before leaving for
Britain in 1950.
Given by D.W. Mullock Esq.
Miscellaneous papers. 29 ff xerox copies. Press
cuttings on terrorist activities in Bengal, particularly political
assassination, early 1930s. Material relating to 'The Royalists'. According to
its prospectus 'The Royalists' was an organisation composed of 'younger members
of the British Community in India' which 'Stood for the King against the King's
Enemies'. Criticism of government was not incompatible with this attitude and
the Royalists were concerned to ensure that the European Association really
voiced the demands of the European Community and that the rights of the
Community were properly safeguarded in any future constitution. The Royalists
were not militant but might be used for the formation of a defence force in an
emergency: The papers include the minutes of the Annual General Meeting held at
the Grand Hotel, Calcutta on 13 September 1934. Mr Mullock was Chairman of the
Royalists on this occasion.
These records, similar in scope to those of the
Foreign Department of the Government of India, form two main groupings:
'Internal' and 'External'. The 'Internal' series concern relations with the
Indian princely states : the 'External' series concern India's foreign policy
and frontier affairs, including relations with the Middle East, Iran,
Afghanistan, Russian Central Asia, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, China, South-East
Asia, and other Western powers. This distinction had early been present in the
gradual assignment of princely states matters to the Political branch and of
foreign affairs by the Secret branch in the old department, and formed the
basis of the administrative division in 1931 into the Political (Internal) and
Political (External) departments. The contents of the Political and Secret
Department Library of official publications, and of the departmental reference
collection of official Memoranda, are also included here. For the Political and
Secret Department reference map collection see W below.
Mr L.G. Pinnell (1896-1979)
Given by Mr M.C. Pinnell
Calcutta, Bengal, Darjeeling 1919-1947
Memoir: With the sanction of government describing
career of L.G. Pinney before, during and after his time in the ICS. Some
insertions and notes are made throughout by Mr Pinnell's son, the donor Mr M.C.
Pinnell. Sections are as follows:
To go or not to go to Oxford
Cambrai, October 1918
Armistice
Oxford, 1919
First years in India, 1920-22
First years in the Service
Bengal, 1922: a young man's impressions
Bengal, 1923-25: marriage, home leave
Bengal, 1926-29: Dacca
The Bengal Secretariat, 1930 and 1934
Bengal, 1930-32: Rajshahi
Begal, 1932-34: Darjeeling
Darjeeling, 1932: Miss Ellen Wilkinson
Darjeeling, 1934: the Bihar earthquake
Bengal, 1935-37: Sir John Anderson
Bengal, 1935-38: Major General Lindsay
Bengal sketches:
Sarat and Subhas Bose
Khwaja Sir Nazimuddin
Sir Bijoy Prasad Singh Roy
Khwaja Shahabuddin
Narendra Bishas
A muslim country parson
Bengal, 1937-39: Lord Brabourne
Bengal, 1939: interregnum
The training of the I.C.S., 1940-42
The Cripps mission - Delhi, 1942
The "Denial of ttransport" - Delhi, 1942
The Bengal famine, 1942-43
The end of the Japanese war
Calcutta, 1946
Family life
Memoria
112pp. plus three pages of introduction
(O.M. Martin, I.C.S.)
Memoirs, 1913-45:
Part I, 1913-19. Joins I.C.S., Bengal, 1913, sent to
Rajshahi; 1916 joins Indian cavalry; 1917 joins 14th Lancers; life in Indian
cavalry; service in Iraq. TS. 84 pp.
Part II. Subdivisional Officer Narayanyanj; leave;
Additional District and Sessions Judge H.Q. Comilla Chittagong; moved to Assam
Valley - H.Q. Gauhati; Acting District Judge; Hinduism in Assam; description of
various trials; touring by pony and sailing cutter; prosecution of Muslim
leaders for sedition; congress leaders take fright and rural police are
intimidated; dishonesty in his office and in land settlement; extermination of
bison and wild buffalo; control of murder and dacoity; riots on Calcutta;
terrorist movement and police intelligence service; social contact with Indians
in Calcutta and Darjeeling; Lepchas; riot and murder on river sandbanks;
weapons used in land riots; cotton weavers and their plight; Dacca riots; cause
of the riots; Bengal Government failure to realize cause; railway accident and
prosecution of manager; terrorist movement and its collapse; Sir John Anderson;
training of Assistant Magistrates; fish industry; mosquito control; famine
relief in West Bengal; corrupting influence of politics on Indian friends;
Hindus and Muslims becoming estranged; outbreak of war; deficiencies in
training Indian army; difficulties as Chief Secretary; order arrests of
suspected terrorists; conference of generals at Chittagong; futility of army
measures for 'denial of transport' and the economic effects; Gandhi's emissary
is arrested and sentenced; refugees from Burma; great Bengal famine. TS from
pp. 85-331; 37 pp. of MS, numbered pp. 332-369.
MS synopsis of points of interest of each part made
by Martin: Part I consists of one sheet; Part II consists of five sheets.
Treatise on Yogasastra by Professor Monoranjan
Barua, revised and partly rewritten and with a foreword by O.M. Martin, dated
1968. TS. 400 pp.; divided into 21 chapters and 3 appendices.
(P.N. McWilliam, I.C.S.)
'Memorandum on the subject of the social and
official intercourse between European officers and Indian gentlemen.' Bengal
Secretariat Press, Calcutta 1913.
Printed papers:
Paper read by S.B. Mazumder, manager of Sir Daniel
Hamilton's estate, Gosaba, 1932. Gives the history of the estate.
'Full speed ahead' by D.M. Hamilton. A critique of
the financial policy of the Government. Printed, in three parts. n.d.
'The Gosaba one rupee note', by D.M. Hamilton.
Gosaba, January 1937.
'Financial stringency: its cause and cure', by D.M.
Hamilton. Gosaba, January 1937.
'The new statecraft', by Balmacara. An explanation
of socialism and capitalism.
Restricted Paper on anti-terrorism in Chittagong
district.
'Rules for training assistant magistrates deputy
magistrates and sub-deputy magistrates', by H.J. Twynam, Secretary to the
Government of Bengal. Calcutta, January 1940.
'Fourteen reports on inspections of courts etc. at
various places, when at Mymensingh and Chittagong', by P.N. McWilliam,
Additional District Magistrate, May 1938 - January 1940.
Notes and judgements on ten cases heard before P.
McWilliam, Magistrate. Mymensingh, Bengal, 1935-36.
A tour diary of P.N. McWilliam, I.C.S., A.D.M.
Chittagong for February 1939.
(J.M.G. Bell, I.C.S.)
Bengal 1940-1958 A Recatalogue
File 1. 1943-1947
Miscellaneous cuttings from Indian newspapers
covering politics, war, famine, independence etc. July 1943 to September 1947.
Many of the cuttings have comments by J.M.G. Bell. Included are some cuttings
relating to Gandhi and Nehru.
Instructions to S.D.O's. from District Magistrate,
J.L. Llewellyn, dated 18 November 1943 at Alipore on measures to be taken in
dealing with backlog of criminal and civil cases caused by illness etc.
Letter from S.G. Taylor (Bobby) to J.M.G. Bell about
necessity of decentralization in India, and the importance of the work and role
of the District Officers. Alipore, 12 February 1945.
Letter to E.P. Keely dated 30 January 1945, 5pp,
giving his opinions on future development in the post war period in India, with
particular reference to District Administration.
Letter from E.P. Keely dated 31 January 1945 in
reply to above.
File 2. 1940-1946
Tour diaries and notes made during tours in
Chandpur, Kalimpong and Chittagong. 1940-43.
Confidential Note dated 18 December 1944 at Burdwan
for his successor giving details of the district.
Secret report dated July 1943 on civilian
appreciation of the military situation in the Arakan front (2 copies).
Note on possible reconstruction of Local Government
at Kalimpong, 24 January 1942.
Notes for lecture delivered 30 November 1945. Covers
History, Administration etc.
Report to the Civil Defence Commissioner at Calcutta
on air raid on Chittagong, 20 December 1943.
Report on Japanese atrocities published in Statesman
19 September 1945.
8 & 9. Two Secret Reports on the political
situation in Bengal for the second half of January, 1946, and for the second half
of September 1946.
'Some Indian Customs'. Indian customs and some of
their effects on European living conditions. 5ff
'Mohsin Ali's Village'. Life and politics in a
village. 7ff.
'Agriculture in India'. Description of crops, land
tenure, inheritance, etc.
Copy of Report on Japanese Atrocities.
To the Editor of the Statesman enclosing reviews of
six books, dated at Burdwan, January 1947.
Correspondence between J.M.B. and Ian Stephens,
Editor of the Statesman about a letter from J.M.B. and the Maharaja of Burdwan,
on a letter refused publication.
Review of books.
Cutting from the Sunday Amrita Bazar Patrika 24
March 1946, containing an article by Everett Ripley, critical of British rule
in India.
a & b Two letters to E. Ripley dated at Burdwan
24 March 1946, and at Darjeeling 22 April 1946 relating to the article.
Letter from E. Ripley to J.M.G. Bell dated 17 April
1946.
From J.M.G. Bell A.D.M. Chittagong to the
Commissioner of Chittagong Div. 4 August 1943. Account of an incident involving
the death of a clerk.
Amusing wartime incident written as a short story My
Private Gun..
Answers to questionnaire. TS. Relating to work of
I.C.S. officers, District organisation, administration etc., made by J.M.G.
Bell when D.M. Burdwan, 28 November 1944. Appendices on Regulations, letters
issued, Officers' tenure.
Confidential handing over notes on Kalimpong
Sub-division. 3 April 1942.
Report from Officer-in-Charge, Gurubathan Police
Station to the Circle: Inspector of Police, Kalimpong on mismanagement in the
Samabeong Tea Estate, 23 August 1938. Letter from the C.I.P. Kalimpong to the
S.D.O. reporting on an inspection of this Estate.
25-34. Ten tour diaries by S.D.O. Kalimpong (J.M.
Bell). June 1940 March 1942.
File 3
TS script of lecture 'India and the War in the Far East',
delivered 27 June 1945. 4pp.
MS article ? 'India: who'll get the best of the
deal?' Reply to an article of same title by Ralph Izzard arguing the case for
the prosperity of Pakistan. J.M.G. Bell disagrees under sub-headings: Food;
Industry: The human element: United Bengal. 3pp.
MS article: 'Indian Prospect'. Written six weeks
after Partition, on the non cooperation between India and Pakistan, and the
outlook for the future, particularly for Pakistan. 3pp.
TS Enclosure 3. 'Note on recent experiences in
Bengal'. Account of some Partition riots. No date, but post August 1946. 3pp.
TS copy of a letter headed 'Administration in
India'. A defence of Indian administration. No date. 2pp.
Descriptive handlist of papers collected.
TS article: 'Ministers and Magistrates'. Story of
fraud perpetrated against the Hon. Minister to the Government of Bengal in the
Department of Woods and Forests, Mr. P.D. Raikot, which leads on to various
other cases of examples of fraud in its broadest sense against Government officials.
It is an article on the tensions between the Indians and English - between
governed and governors. Other cases: Jiadganj and Pollard cases, 1943; Hatem
Ali Jemadar v. Mr Palmer; criticism of the quality of Indian Ministers. 12 July
1944 10pp
TS article: 'A Gangtok Wedding'. Description of the
wedding between the eldest daughter of H.H. the Maharaja of Sikkim and Sey
Kusno Gompu Tsering Tendup of Phungkang in Tibet. The preliminary wedding at
Gangtok. 5pp. 1943.
TS article: 'One dreadful month'. The month
described is 31 July 1946-31 August 1946, in journal form. Describes the
massacres etc. which took place in Calcutta and environs in that month, and the
consequences. Described by J.M.G. Bell, who was in charge of Burdwan district.
lOpp.
TS letter (7pp.) 26 June 1958 from 'Bobby', (S.G.
Taylor, I.G. Police, Bengal) J.M.G. Bell's father-in-law) (q.v.) about the TS
article which accompanies it: 'Last Days in India'. Comments, criticisms and
corrections. The article is an expanded version of the above ? 'One dreadful
month'.
Single TS copy sheet of population statistics in
Bengal and their relation to Europeans, and in Calcutta, and in the whole of
India 1944.
File 4
Miscellaneous cuttings, notes, lecture notes etc.,
relating to various subjects - India c. 1945-47.
Microfilm Box 5 No. 37
Autobiographical novel 'Dragons in the Fairway',
written in journal form about events in India, August 1945 - December 1946 and,
and Africa, 1947 - June 1950. Appendix 'A note on the Bengal famine', 39pp.
(This is really an autobiographical journal, not a novel in any sense.)
The novel begins with description of life in the
foothills of the Himalayas: Hill people and plains people; money lenders;
wedding of the eldest daughter of the Maharaja of Sikkim; note on the
Maharaja's sister Rani Chuni Dorji and her daughter; outstanding characters;
Tibetan New Year celebrations.
War years: organization of refugee camps and
comments on dishonesty; communal rioting increasing.
1946. February: tightens security schemes against
revolt; beginning of 'troubles to come' in Calcutta, serious disturbances;
these disturbances in connection with the Indian National Army trials at Delhi;
Eurasian position; the Labour delegation. March: comment on Royal Indian Naval
mutiny; diversion on reason for Westerners not mixing socially with Asiatics.
April: strikes, reasons, description and solution; in Darjeeling; Tibetan
situation and army. May: Hindu-Muslim rioting; methods of dealing with mob
violence and raiding parties; court cases following outbreaks and Hindu-Muslim
tensions there; criticism of Indian ministers. Congress and Muslim League;
visit of ministers enquiring into recent rioting and the intrigues resulting
from their visit. July: comments on events in Delhi, i.e., new Constitution and
problem of carrying on interim government; refusal by Muslim League to enter
Constituent Assembly and consequences. August: rumours of riots from Calcutta;
beginnings of serious rioting around Kalna; news of the massacres in Calcutta;
criticism of the Governor's action; vivid picture of the massacres in Calcutta;
his own district has kept remarkably free. September: more interference from
ministers. November: Calcutta Statesman talks of civil war; effects of
Americans being in the area; refugees from Calcutta beginning to flood the
area; attitude of the middle-class refugees; work of keeping refugees fed and
in camps; law and order; strikes, cause and effect. December: ill again,
considers long leave.
1947. January: voyage home after ten years; hears of
Independence for August 15 1947. April: arrives home. November: reactions to
being home; records what they heard of the ending of British Rule in India.
December 1947 - June 1950. Records his experiences
as an Assistant Commissioner in Africa.
Appendix. 'The Bengal Famine 1942-43'. From personal
experience, elementary history books, and newspapers (1) outline of earlier
famines, (2) comparison of 1942-43 famine with earlier disasters and analysis
of the 1942-43 famine (3) the real causes and the nature of the famine.
Given by R.A. Gopalaswami, I.C.S. (retd.) by way of
K.A. Povah, Esq., M.A.
Memoir by Mr Gopalaswami entitled: 'Administration
in India. A brief account of personal experiences during the last twenty years
of British rule and the first fifteen years of Independence'. 48 ff. Xerox of
typescript.
Mr Gopalaswami joined the Madras cadre of the Indian
Civil Service in 1927 where he rose from Assistant Collector to Joint Secretary
of the Provincial Board of Revenue. In 1940 he was transferred to the Centre
where he served as Secretary of the National Defence Council (1941),
Director-General of Civil Defence (1943), Secretary of the Famine Enquiry
Commission (1944), Joint Secretary, Agricultural Department (1945), Secretary,
Ministry of Food (1947). A noteworthy chapter in this memoir describes the work
of the Foodgrains Policy Committee in turning India into the world's most
controlled economy as far as basic food distribution was concerned.
After Independence Mr Gopalaswami served in a
variety of Central posts including Registrar-General and Census Commissioner of
India 1949-53 and work in connection with the reorganisation of the machinery
of government. As Census Commissioner he became convinced of the primacy of
family planning in India and there is an important chapter on this subject in
the memoir. In 1953 he returned to Madras where he served in a number of
important posts ending his career in 1963 as Chief Secretary to the Government
of Tamil Nadu. In the last phase of his career he was particularly satisfied
with his work in the organisation of Panchayati Raj in Madras. He continued to
hold a number of offices after Independence.
Essay by Mr Gopalaswami entitled: 'Progress of
Family Limitation in India'. Printed for restricted distribution in England,
June 1986.
In 1951, Mr Gopalaswami, as Census Commissioner,
wrote the first official paper recommending the Government of India to accept
and proclaim a national population policy with the object of limiting the rate
of growth of population. His recommendations, after much opposition, were at
length accepted and the Government of India became the first of any
nation-state in the world to proclaim a national policy of family limitation
and incorporate it in the national planning system.
Part I of this essay describes the progress of
family limitation in India up to 1986. The author first makes the point that
family limitation is aimed at, not family planning. The former sets out to
avoid births, the latter to plan births according to the convenience of the
mother. Through the evidence of unpublished data sent him over a period of many
years by the Tamil Nadu Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, he
was able to devise an Index Number of Family Limitation (I.N.F.L.) for the
purpose of registering the progress of all the Indian states in promoting
family limitation. In a series of tables he is able to show the progress
ranking in family limitation of the 14 states of India, Maharashtra showing the
greatest progress and Uttar Pradesh the least.
Part II of the essay is entitled 'How to accelerate
future progress?' The education of women and greater prosperity are seen as
keys to the question. More children does not mean more workers but more people
without work.' He compares the experience of Great Britain in the 1960s and 70s
with that of Tamil Nadu, the most advanced Indian state with regard to family
limitation. He concludes that surgical methods of contraception (i.e.
sterilization) are more effective than clinical ones.
He suggests that the various political parties in
each state should help to promote a common national programme for family
limitation by persuading eligible couples to accept the 'small family norm'. In
recognition of their help government would give, periodically, a contribution
to party funds. 27pp.
Given by Mr. E.W. Holland 1975.
Bengal 1923-1947.
Memoir of Life in I.C.S. Joins 1923, posted to
Bengal. Record of first days, and first spell of duty, climate, people, work
and organization of Civil Service. S.D.O. Serampore (Hooghly Div); Barrackpore
- comment on industries and workers. Incidents and cases. D.M. of Dacca 1930.
(See paper on Terrorism in Bengal 1930-35). Notes on dyarchy and hartals.
Description. of dealing with Hindu Muslim riot.
Touring in riverine districts of- East Bengal by
Launch (Bankura). Transferred to Tippera as D.M. Notes on Maharajah of Tippera.
Able to do some constructive work at Tippera: (1) with water hyacinth. (2)
rural indebtedness - success of arbitration courts in this.
1935 Silver Jubilee celebrations at Comilla.
1936 Government of India Act: consequences and
incidents. Profile of minister, Makunda Behary Mallick.
Transferred to Finance Dept. to devise method for
levying a sales tax in Bengal - Profile of Minister, Mr. H.S. Suhrawardy.
Implementing sales-tax.
Bill passed 1941.
Dec. 1941 Viceroy pays his annual visit to Calcutta.
Viceroy's refusal to give party for poorer children. This done by Lady Mary
Herbert, wife of the Governor.
1942 Holland made Secretary in the Dept. of Public
Health and Local Govt. In charge of Civil Defence.
1942-43 eventful year in Calcutta. Income tax
evasion case. Bengali Youth in war effort. First steps taken to deal with
Calcutta beggars.
1943 Bengal famine. Insight into Government hospital
work.
1944 Profile of Mr. Casey as Governor of Bengal.
1945 Commissioner of Dacca Division. Profile of Sir
Frederick and Lady Burrows. Comments on Partition, and Independence.
1947 Chairman of Calcutta Improvement Trust.
Description of ceremony on 15 August 1947, and subsequent events at Govt.
House.
MS paper entitled Terrorism in Bengal 1930-35: a
personal reminiscence.
Memoir of time as Additional District Magistrate,
Dacca, East Bengal, when Civil Disobedience campaign was at its height.
Terrorist activities and police action. Transferred to Khulna district - civil
disobedience there. Steadfastness and loyalty of Muslims, and Bengal civil
services.
Example of peaceful method of dealing with
demonstrations. Increase in murders. Khulna terrorist group preparing to murder
Mr. Holland.
Returns after leave as District Magistrate to
Bankura. Has a Gurkha battalion there whose cheerful example encourages people.
1934 transferred as D.M. of Tippera district.
Gradual change of attitude of people.
Given by Miss A. Ewing.
India General: 1919-1954
A collection of interview notes, tape recordings and
answers to a questionnaire sent out by Miss Ewing from I.C.S. officers, for her
thesis written in 1978 entitled, "Survey of former officers of the Indian
Civil Service between 1919-1935."
There are 17 transcripts of interviews, 32 written
answers, in correspondence, to the questionnaire.
See also: Tape-recordings. Restricted ? see
correspondence.
Interview notes:
S. M. Burke: 1931-1947 Asst Commr, Punjab 1931. 3pp.
D. G. Chambers: 1931-1947 Asst Collr, Bombay 1931.
2pp.
William Christie 1920-1947 Mag. and Collr, U.P.
1933. 4pp.
B.A.C. Cook: 1929-1947 Under Secty, Fin. Dept, G. of
India 1938. 3pp.
(See also No.22 Questionnaire)
G. G. Drewe: 1928-1947 Asst Collr, Bombay 1932. 3pp.
W. W. Georgeson: 1930-1950 Jt Mag. and Sub-Collr,
Madras. 2pp.
H.A.C. Gill: 1929-1947 Dep. Secty, Fin. Dept, G. of
India 1938. 3pp.
J.P.L. Gwynn: 1938-1955 Asst Collr and Mag., Madras.
2pp.
F. M. Innes: 1926-1947 Dep. Cmmsnr, Punjab 1932.
3pp.
L. W. Jardine: 1921-1947 Resident for Baroda and
Gujerat States 1943. 4pp.
R. H. Johnston: 1923-1947 Mag. and Collr, U.P. 1928
and Bengal 1938. 2pp.
A. H. Kemp: 1928-1947 Jt Mag. and Dep. Collr, Bihar
1928. 2pp.
A.R.H. Macdonald: 1931-1947 Dep. Commr, Assam 1942.
2pp.
P. J. Pringle: 1933-1947 Jt Mag. and Dep. Collr,
Bengal. 2pp.
M. H. Rossington: 1932-1947 Dep. Commr, Burma 1939.
3pp.
W.H. Saumarez Smith: 1934-1947 Under-Secty, Home
Dept, Bengal 1939. 7pp.
C.F.V. Williams: 1923-1947 Sub-Collr and Jt Mag.,
Madras 1928. 2pp.
Questionnaire Correspondence:
E.G.S. Apedaile: 1932-1947 Dep. Commr, Burma 1938.
2pp
R.F.S. Baylis: 1927-1947 Jt Mag., U.P. 1929. 4pp
D. A. Bryan: 1933-1947 Asst Commr, Punjab. 2pp
Sir Charles Clee 1919-1947 Secty; Fin. Dept, Govt.
of Sind 1937. 3pp
B.C.A. Cook 1922-1947 Under-Secty, Fin. Dept, G. of
India. 2pp
(See also No.4 in 'Interview Notes')
F. G. Cracknell: 1932-1947 Jt Mag., U.P. 6pp.
E. G. Creek: 1933-1948 Jt Mag, and Dep. Collr,
Bengal. 5pp.
F. N. Crofts: 1929-1947 District and Sessions Judge,
U.P. 3pp.
B. W. Day: 1930-1947 Sub. Collr, Madras. 3pp.
B. W. Day: 1930-1947 Sub. Collr, Madras. 7pp.
28 & 29. A. E. Drake: 1931-1947 Asst Mag., and
Collr, Bihar. Also political service. 7pp.
A.G.F. Farquhar: 1927-1947 Dep. Commr, C.P. 17pp
R. Galletti: 1931-1947 Jt Sec. Board of Revenue,
Madras. 8pp.
Sir Leslie Glass: 1934-1947 Ass. Commr, Burma. 2pp.
J. S. Hardman: 1929-1947 Sec. Fin. Dept, Bihar.
12pp.
E. S. Hyde: 1928-1948 Asst Commr, C.P. 1pp.
R.S.T. John: 1932-1947 Jt Mag. and Dep. Collr,
Bengal. 2pp.
J. Johnston: 1927-1947 Mag. and Collr, U.P. 4pp.
W. G. Kennedy: 1931-1947 Asst Commr, Punjab. 7pp.
A. S. Larkin: 1921-1947 Mag. and Collr, Bengal. 6pp.
Sir Robert Latimer: 1935-1947 Asst Commr, Punjab.
11pp.
J. L. Llewellyn: 1929-1947 QJt Mag. and Dep. Collr,
Bengal. 15pp.
R. E. McGuire: 1926-1947 Dep. Commr, Burma. 2pp.
F.W.A. Morris: 1930-1954 Jt Mag. and Sub-Collr,
Madras. 3pp.
A. J. Platt: 1932-1947 Pte Sec. to Governor of
Madras. 2pp.
W. H. Pridmore: 1934-1947 Jt Mag. and Collr, U.P.
4pp.
P. W. Radice: 1931-1948 Jt Mag., U.P. 1pp.
N. Storr: 1930-1947 Dist. and Sess. Judge, U.P, 1pp.
M. M. Stuart: 1927-1947 Jt Mag. and Collr, Bengal.
2pp.
A.R.C. Westlake: 1921-1947 Collr, Madras. 5pp.
A. A. Williams: 1932-1947 Asst Commr, Punjab. 4pp.
Copy of letter to C.M. Kerr in Cawnpore dated 1
September 1944 from D. C. Das? requesting his views on the work, and the
qualities needed, by military officers going into civil employment.
Miss Ewing's Appendix I to her thesis, the
questionnaire, and a list of those it was sent to. 7pp. 210pp.
52 and 53. ëThe Indian Civil. Service 1858-1947í. An
article written for History Today, June 1982, by Anne
Ewing. TS and xerox of printed article. Bibliography
in TS copy.
TS of Appendix I. Survey of former officers of the Indian
Civil Service. Summer 1978. pp.386-392. From Miss A. Ewing's Ph.D. thesis for
the University of Cambridge.
The Services and General Department was created in
1924 primarily to centralise the handling of personnel and establishment
questions previously divided among other departments. India Office
Establishment Branch files and personal files of members of the Indian civil
services serving in 1947 are also included. The department was responsible for
the management of the Indian civil services and of the India Office
establishment, and (among residual responsibilities) for general policy on
archaeology, education, zoology and copyright.
Given by F.O. Bell I.C.S.
Bengal: 1930-47
Small Collections Box B1
TS Record of life in the Indian Civil Service
1930-47, by F.O. Bell.
Introduction and background training in England,
first impressions in Jessore District under A.S. Larkin and S.K. Ghosh.
Transferred to Burdwan Division. Settlement training. Sub-Divisions -
Settlement work in Rangpur. Settlement Officer: Dinajpur. D.M. and Collector
Bakarganj - D.M. and Collector Midnapore; D.M. and Collector, Dacca 1944-47;
personal reflections. 51pp.
Indian Civil Service (Retired) Association:
minutes, reports, subject and correspondence files, and financial
papers,relating to the interests of retired members of the Indian Civil
Service, particularly their pensions.
304 items
1918 - 1991 View Contents
List
Indian Political Service Collection:
memoirs of some thirty-five former members of the Indian Political Service, or
their wives, describing their experiences, chiefly in the period 1920-1947, as
political officers in the Indian States, the North-West Frontier Province,
Baluchistan, or the Residencies and Consulates in the Persian Gulf.
35 items
1920 - 1947 View Contents
List
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(Major General W.E.V. Abraham)
Microfilm Box 6 No. 43
Details of a tour made by Major General Abraham in
Burma in March 1942 when he accompanied General Alexander to Rangoon as Liaison
Officer.
Various papers connected with the defence of Burma during
the 1939-45 war.
Budget papers (India) 1943-44.
Papers on India during the 1939-45 war.
(Leonard Mellor Crosfield)
Donated by Yoma Crosfield Ullman
Born in 1899, Leonard Crosfield studied at Oxford
before joining the Oxford and Bucks. Light Infantry for service in Northern
France in 1918. After the war he joined the Burmah Oil Company, for whom he
worked until his retirement in 1949 having achieved the position of Manager, Burmah
Oil Co. (India Concessions) Ltd. During his time with the BOC he served
throughout Burma and, after 1941, in North India. He retired to Britain (via
South Africa) in 1949, where he lived until his death in 1987.
The bulk of the work in cataloguing this collection
was carried out by Yoma Crosfield Ullman, Mr Crosfield's daughter, prior to its
donation to the Centre of South Asian Studies. The Centre would like to express
their gratitude to Ms Ullman for the donation and for the enormous amount of
work she has put into it.
Ms Crosfield Ullman's chronology of her father's
career and introduction to the collection are accessible by clicking one of the
links below. Full details of the photographs contained in the albums are
available by searching the database of archival photographs. Follow the link
below, click on 'Photos' and then on 'Search'. Entering 'Crosfield' as the
search term in the donor field will bring up the entire collection. Throughout
the notes and catalogue entries for this collection the initials LMC, YCU and
MEC are used to denote Leonard Mellor Crosfield, Yoma Crosfield Ullman and
Margaret Eileen Crosfield.
Introduction
Chronology
Photos database
Papers:
Box 1:
Memoir: Yoma Crosfield Ullman, 'A memoir of a
childhood in India', np, 1999, 79pp
Memoir: Margaret Eileeen Crosfield, 'Reminiscneces
of Margaret Eileen Crosfield (nee Daniel), dictated on July 14, 17 and 18,
1982', transcribed by Yoma Crosfield Ullman, np, 1982, 75 pp.
Xerox copy of letter, 17.8.1947, from LMC giving an
account of his experiences during the handover of pawer in Pakistan.
Xerox copy of undated letter from MEC to 'Mums and
Paps' giving an account of experiences during the handover of pawer in
Pakistan.
Photograph albums:
Album 1:
1918-1919 - Military service in Northern France.
Further notes containing background information to this album can be accessed
by clicking here.
Album 2a:
1921 - Voyage to Burma: Rangoon. Labelled by LMC as
'LM Crosfield, "Ednaville"'. This album shows the passage to Rangoon,
via the Suez Canal. Scenes from on board the ship and from the stops along the
way and also has scenes of LMC's early times in Rangoon. Further notes giving
background and physical information about this album can be accessed by
clicking here.
Album 2b:
1921 - Voyage to Burma: Rangoon. Largely a duplicate
of 2A, mostly without captions. For more information click here.
Album 3:
1921-1928. Burma 1921-26. Home leave in the UK,
1926. Burma 1927-28. For more information click here.
Album 4:
Burma: Rangoon and 'up-country'. This album appears
to have been compiled by LMC's parents using photographs he sent back to the UK
for them. There are few dates available in the album, although some of the
photographs are duplicates of others in the collection. For more information
click here.
Album 5:
1927-1929. Labelled by LMC: 'Chauk 1927-29' Contains
photos of oil fields, trips on river steamers, and LMC's life while stationed
in Chauk. For more information click here.
Album 6:
1929. Burma: Chauk, Yenangyaung, Pagan, Mount Popa,
Taunggyi etc. Album is labelled 'L.M. Crosfield: BOC, Nyounghla'. For more
information click here.
Album 7:
1930-1932. Burma, Chittagong, India. Domestic scenes
of Burma and Northern India. Captions are not written on all photographs and
were probably added later. For more information click here.
Album 8:
1933. Chittagong. Album contains scenes of return
trip from home leave in 1933 (during which he married Margaret Eileen Daniel)
and domestic scenes from Northern India. For more information click here.
Album 9:
1933. England, Chittagong, most of album from
Rangamati. Mostly views of lakes, elephants, boats and local markets. Also
scenes of tea gardens and tea tastings. For more information click here.
Album 10:
1933-1936. Album titled 'Chittagong 1933-36' but
also includes photographs of Akyab, Sylhet, Dawki, Guptakhal and Shillong.
Includes industrial scenes and Girl Guides pictures. For more information click
here.
Album 11:
1935. Shillong, Chittagong, Akyab, Oodaleah,
Dohazari, Rangamati, Digboi. Domestic, travelling and BOC scenes. For more
information click here.
Album 12:
1933-1936. Chittagong. Visit of Viceroy Willingdon
and more Girl Guide scenes. For more information click here.
Album 13:
1936-1939. Chittagong, England, Belgium. MEC returns
to UK to ahve a baby, LMC follows her and then travels to Belgium. Family
return to Chittagong: more domestic scenes. For more information click here.
Album 14:
1939-1943. Burma, India. Album probably compiled in
England retrospectively - chronology is not accurate. For more information
click here.
Album 15:
1940-1944. Burma, India. Scenes from Rangoon and
Digboi - domestic, school and guiding scenes. Album also includes photographs
of Agra, Darjeeling, Taxilla, Shillong and Peshawar. For more information click
here.
Album 16:
1944-1946. Mostly Calcutta and Darjeeling. Domestic
scenes, portraits and guiding. For more information click here.
Album 17:
1921-1928. Burma 1921-26. Home leave in the UK,
1926. Burma 1927-28. For more information click here.
Brigadier J.J. Packard served with 1st Battalion
East Yorkshire Regiment in North, West and East India 1933-37 and 1943-46. His
wife, Mrs Faith Packard, joined him in India for part of 1946.
Typescript memoir by Brigadier Packard: 'Service
with the British Army in India'. This covers such matters as the nature of
Packard's relations with his Indian Sepoys; European Army Officers' domestic
arrangements; contacts with ordinary Indians; the daily routine. 3pp.
Typescript memoir by Mrs Faith Packard: My
recollections of India in 1946'. Memories of Delhi, Simla and Calcutta. 3pp.
Donated by SF Bolt
Small Collections Box B2
TS copy of journal entry for 3.7.1945 regarding the
feeding of whale flesh to Indian Troops
Given by Brigadier F.R.L. Goadby (Rajputana Rifles)
O.B.E. Brigadier F.L.R. Goadby served in the Royal Engineers from 1918 and the
Royal Corps of Signals from 1921. In 1926 he joined the Indian Army serving in
the 2/3rd Silch Pioneers. During 1933 he transferred to the 1st Battalion, 6th
Rajputana Rifles. Later in his career he served in Southern Command, India;
Simla; Calcutta; Bihar; and Bombay.
India General: 1924-1978
BOX I
MS book bound: Scraps from Ceylon illustrating the
full dress costumes of its inhabitants, their religious observances and the
principal industries (foreign and native) by John Leonard Ralenberg Van Dort.
Colombo, Ceylon, 1894.
The book consists of handwritten copperplate text in
blue ink on left hand page, and illustrations on the right hand page.
There are 15 pages of illustrations depicting things
seen on the island - people, places, crafts, etc. The small pictures are chalk
and paint, and are beautifully executed and very charming. The text is
explanatory.
There is a letter inside the book dated 23 March
1911 from the daughter of J.L.R. van Dort (Grace van Dort), relating to
publication.
1978 Visitors` Book, Colaba House.
Papers found in book given by Brigadier Goadby:
l and 2 Two letters from the Secretary of the United
Services Institution for India, Simla about projected trip to Sikkim.
Article: 'A nature-lover's paradise', by Dorothy L.
Tanner.
4pp. scribbled notes.
a-g Various official papers connected with entry,
touring, etc. in Sikkim and Tibet.
6. and 7 Maps.
a.& b. Two account books, containing bills etc.
1939-41
Newspaper cutting - profile of Brigadier Goadby, The
Oxford Times, 1956.
a.& b. Christmas cards.
42 letters, from Brigadier Goadby and Mrs. Goadby to
his mother from 5 January 1941 to 1 December 1945 and March/April 1949. Poona,
Delhi, Bangalore, H.Q. India Command, Sikkhim, S.E.A.C., Rawalpindi, etc. The
letters relate to life during the war as far as censorship allowed. 87pp. and
envelopes.
Lists of birds seen in various. parts of India
1940-48: Carignano, Delhi, Taxila, Simla Hills, Bangalore, Comilla, E. Bengal,
Nilgiris, Krishnarajsagar, Sikkhim, Calcutta:, Dinapore, Panagarh, Fort
William, Kutch. 2pp.
Printed extract (pp.69-91) from the "Gazette of
India" Extraordinary. Army Dept. 27 February 1924, being a despatch by
H.E. General Lord Rawlinson of Trent, C. in C. India on the operations of the
Waziristan Force 1 January 1922-22 April 1923.
Another copy (pp.401-418) 18 November 1924.
Special Station Orders by Lt. Col. A.S. Auret,
Commanding Razani Line, Razani 1 July 1929. 12pp.
TS page on History of Fort William.
Newspaper photograph of Lord Wavell after the Bihar
disturbances; Brigadier Goadby in photograph 13 November 1946.
H.Q. Bombay Sub-Area Location Statement, No.18 1948,
by Major Haripal Singh. Appendix A. 6pp. 7 February 1948.
Orders: All Units - Preparation of Court Martial
Cases and reference to D.J.A.G. for Pre-trial Advice. 22 April 1948. 2pp.
Handing-over notes by Major General (sic) F.R.L.
Goadby, O.B.E., Calcutta, 25 April 1948. 9pp.
Handing-over notes by Brigadier D.S. Brar, O.B.E.,
H.Q. Bombay SubArea, 3 May 1948. 9pp.
Single sheet of Times of India, Bombay, Tuesday, 23
November 1948 on the devastation of the cyclone of 20/21 November.
Handing-over notes by Brigadier F.R.L. Goadby,
Bombay, 30 December 1948. 11pp.
See : Photographs.
Additional papers given by Mrs Goadby.
BOX II
Notes on Waziriforce 1921/23. 7 ff.
Letter dated 28 June 1981. Notes on Bihar
disturbances 1946/7.4 ff.
File of papers dealing with Mr Goadby's army
service. Details of decorations, promotions, confidential reports, examination
results, 1921-48. 55 ff.
Parade No. 206, Volume 16, 22 July 1944.19 pp.
Signals Association membership card.
5 field notebooks 1926-47.
Notebook 1918: Notes on gas.
Army Publications:
Instructions on wiring, 1917.
Notes on trench warfare, 1917.
Notes on trench warfare (revised diagrams) 1917.
The division in attack, 1918.
Army orders, January 1932.
Souvenir brochure 3rd Battalion Brigade of Guards
bicentenary and reunion 1975.
Diary of visits to India by Mr Goadby in 1975, 1978
and 1984.
(Patrick Henry Cummins, I.M.S.)
Given by Mrs. C.E. Cummins
N.W.F.P., Assam, Burma, Bengal: 1925-1945
Summary of Service of and Confidential Reports on
Patrick Henry Cummins, I.M.S. (3 sheets).
Map of Assam.
Government Officers' Diary for 1942 when in No. 1
Field Ambulance Unit in Burma.
Diary for 1943-44 Burma.
Notebook of jottings: medical notes, etc.
10 Large Photographs:
1927, Poona; I.M.S. Officers on training course,
P.H. Cummins and others.
1929, Cannanore; 12th Malabar Battalion Madras
Pioneers; Gopal & Co.
1930, G.M.H. Landikotal, Khyber Pass; hockey team;
S.M. Shaw.
1930/31, Razmak, barracks with hills in, background.
1934, Rawalpindi; No.l Indian Hospital Corps Hockey team;
M.R. Sharma.
1934, Rawalpindi; Staff of I.M.H. M. T.
1935, Gauhati, Assam; Medical and Jail staff;
Ghoshal Brothers.
1936, Imphal; Medical Staff; J. Purkayastha.
1943, Hoshiapur, Punjab; No.l Burma Field Ambulance
Unit.
1945, Dacca, Bengal, Nursing Training Wing, 77,
Indian General Hospital; O.C. Lt. Col. P.H. Cummins.
Papers of Major Edward John Somerset, M.B. (Lond.), M.S.
(Opth.), D.O.M.S. (Eng.), M.R.C.S. Born 12 November 1907, joined Indian Medical
Service 1 November 1938. Posted Quetta 1939 to general medical work in
Government Hospital. Transferred 1 January 1943 to Shillong as Eye Specialist,
General Hospital. Transferred September 1943, Calcutta as Eye Specialist, 47
British General Hospital. Made Professor of Opthalmology at Medical College,
Calcutta 18 May 1944. After Independence until 1961, when he left India, in
private opthalmic practice in Calcutta.
Given by Major Somerset.
BOX I
14 Indian Survey Ordnance Maps of the Nepal, Sikkim
and Tibet border areas.
Sheet No. 78A Darjeeling 1930.
Sheet No. 78A/SW and 72M/SE 1942.
Sheet No. 78A/NW and 77D/SW 1930.
Sheet No. 78A/NE and 77D/SE 1930.
Sheet No. 78B/NE 1942.
Sheet No. 78B/NW 1942.
Sheet No. 77D 1946.
Sheet No. 78E 1942.
Sheet No. 78E 1925.
Road Map of India 1942.
O.S. Map of Baluchistan No. 34 N/3 1925.
4 inch Shillong Guide Map - third edition 1942.
Shillong and surrounding country 1930.
Sheet No. 78A Darjeeling 1930.
BOX II
TS Memoir: Reminiscences of an Indian Medical
Service Officer from 1939 to 1961. By E.J. Somerset, Major I.M.S. (retd.)
N.W.F.P., Shillong, Calcutta. 309 ff. A discursive and frank account of
colleagues, friends, household management, army social life in Quetta and
Shillong and civilian social life in Calcutta, recreations, which include treks
to Sikkim and Tibet. While in Quetta observed Sir Henry Holland's work. Many
pages describe his own work. A comprehensive memoir showing his attitudes to
British and Indians.
Given by D.E. Lloyd Jones
C.P., Bengal, U.P., Assam, Burma: 1941 - 1975
Collection of letters sent home immediately prior to
and throughout his Indian Army Service by Major D.E. Lloyd Jones, M.C. Assam
Regiment. Throughout describes the books read; films seen, food etc. (A great
many of the letters are purely personal. Only those relating to India or Assam
are listed here. The full list is in the Centre of South Asian Studies).
BOX I
1941
Envelope date:
23 July OCTU Bulford, Wilts. Describes camp and
initial clothing and training - new army environment.
9 August Interview for Sudan Colonial Service.
No date Dunbar - further details of life and
training of an officer.
September Dunbar. Has put name down for the Indian
Army. Describes training. Refused for Sudan Service.
17 September Dunbar. Officers being weeded out.
Further training described.
n.d. Sandhurst - further details. Described
passing-out parades.
(envelope date: 30 November)
2. December Arrangements for leave at Christmas.
Japanese attacks mentioned.
1942
5 January Sandhurst - Taken turn as Cadet Company
Commander. Getting on well.
9 January Great deal of work. Night exercises. Band
Night programme enclosed.
16 January Exercises - bad. weather.
22 January Discusses pro and con of joining Indian
Army.
27 January Out on very hard exercise. Decides on
joining Indian Army.
4 February Interviewed for Indian Army. Importance
of last month at Sandhurst - exams, tests and lectures. 7 February About tests.
14 February More about military exercises etc.
10 March Accepted for Indian Army.
25 March Description of 3 day exercise and assault
course.
29 March Tropical kit. Going on 36 hour exercise.
6 May London - leaving for India.
9 May On board prior to sailing.
16 May Voyage. Details of shipboard life.
June Still at sea. Has been via the Cape. Describes
their welcome and conditions in detail. Conditions decide many officers to
return after the war to live. Return to ship - further details of life.
10 July O.T.S. Mhow. Contrast to luxury of boat and
hotel in Bombay. Describes living conditions. Studying Urdu. Prices and pay.
Feeling contrast with Wales.
25 July Cram course in Urdu described. Also first
impressions of the Indian scene - villages, shops, etc. finance; daily life.
9 August More about learning Urdu. Social life,
finances. Mentions beginning of Gandhi's Civil Disobedience Movement.
21 August Urdu exams.
29 August Sending parcels to England of rationed
goods.
19 September Describes new regiment as far as he can
with censorship restrictions.
31 October Has been on training course and going to
another. In an hotel in Calcutta. Veiled allusions to his whereabouts in the
future.
13 November In Poona on a course - recaps leave,
courses, etc., hampered through censorship. Been in jungle. Learning to be
Company Commander. Describes his orderly.
13 December Letter to his sister Carys. About
sending material etc. from India. Personal.
27 December Calcutta - Christmas described. Has been
in Shillong.
BOX II
1943
14 January Airgraph: still in Calcutta.
19 January At Saugor, at Infantry School.
26 January Describes living at Saugor.
21 February Airletter. Has qualified as a small arms
instructor. Gives his financial situation. Describes his orderly. More about
Saugor.
15-17 March Personal, but describes the
characteristics of Indian soldiers which he admires. Has been in the jungle.
Describes life in Calcutta. Encloses letter about Insurance Policy.
8 April Veiled allusions to being in bad jungle
conditions; asks for various Penguin books.
19 April Has been in Calcutta; implies has been
fighting again. In a Battle School as instructor.
29 April Has been slightly injured in explosion
during battle course.
13 May Recovered, been on endurance test. Has
command of new company. Mentions a shortage of Indian food, but has seen no
signs.
27 May On leave in Calcutta; going to Ranikhet.
2 June Ranikhet on leave. Describes the journey and
the place.
24 June End of leave; journey back to Assam to.
command D. Company; attitude towards station vendors. Learning Burmese. Remarks
on negotiations with Indian leaders.
4 July Gives news of daily military life in a camp.
10 July Hospital with ear infection.
26 July Copy of two letters to a Mr. Richards from
D.E.L.-J. about leave etc. - a synopsis of the letters home, expresses his
attitude towards shirkers.
16 August Describes some of his friends.
10 September Personal and a little about officers.
11 September Describes his former work as Education
Officer.
26 September Pathe News has been filming the area.
Hopes it will be shown.
5 October Posted back to jungle: Preparations for
Gurkha festival.
19 October In jungle: describes his orderly, a
Lushai, and the way he builds 'annexe' to his tent. Encloses newspaper cutting
of Gurkha ambush.
29 October Veiled references to a three day skirmish
- slight account of Gurkha dewali.
6 November Shooting game, and using explosive in the
rivers to catch fish to add variety to rations.
16 November Discusses plans after demobilisation.
23 November Promoted Quartermaster.
1 December Going on Animal Transport Course in
Landsdowne. Describes leave in Calcutta. Comments on Wavell as Viceroy.
Mentions famine and the photographs published by The Statesman. Encloses
programme of Garrison show at theatre. (B.E.S.A.)
9 December Animal management course in Landsdowne.
11 December Landsdowne - describes place and the
course, working with mules and ponies - learning to ride. Personal.
17 December Letter to grandfather. Mentions that he
is covering same ground as his grandfather covered.
26 December Describes Christmas.
1944
10 January Mentions famine and black market.
16 January Mentions they are totally unaffected by
the famine.
25 February Reveals he is in 14th Army on the
Indo-Burma border.
12 March Implies he has been in action.
11 April Implies has been in action of a prolonged
and heavy nature. Has lost all his personal effects.
15 April Airgraph: has been promoted Captain.
17 May Been recommended for the M.C.
30 May Personal: about deaths on service, his
engagement and M.C.
2 July Describes leave in Calcutta, and incidentally
his fighting in Assam round Kohima in which he was involved.
12 July Still in 'civilization', personal; oblique
reference to fighting.
16-28 July Airgraphs: going on leave to Puri. No
room in Puri: returned to Calcutta and spending leave in Grand Hotel.
31 July Describes leave in Calcutta. Reveals he has
been in bitter fighting for 3 months. Battalion at Jessami, Kherasom and
Kohima. Describes the men in a photograph sent home and tells of the men who
have been killed and their bravery.
14 August Mentions the fighting and casualties at
Kohima.
27 August Speaks of missionaries he has met.
2 September Been in action again. Mentions ending of
war in Europe.
19 September In action - does not think war will be
over so easily against Japanese. Mostly personal.
26 September Airgraph: mentions demobilisation plans
not applying to Indian army.
22 October Mentions lack of NAAFI in the East, and
exploitation of situation by British owned shops.
23 November Airgraph from Major Marsden assuring D.L.J.'s
parents that he was safe but in a very remote place and could not write.
26 November Oblique description of his actions
during silence. Mentions General Slim with admiration. Mentions the memorial
stone brought by the Nagas to commemorate the fallen in the 2nd British
Division.
22 December Mentions the advance into Burma and that
he is connected with it. Letter from Jewellers attached about new regulations
for sending home jewelry.
25 December Day spent marching. Lushais sang carols
on Christmas Eve. Describes the rest of the day. They have chicken sent by
Hindu clerk. Most of villages devasted in wake of the battle.
BOX III
1945
2 January Captured a prisoner; turkey and plum
pudding dropped from the air. Still marching towards Burma.
10 January Death of C.O. His place possibly to be
taken by the 2nd in command, Mohammed Ayub Khan (later President of Pakistan).
22 January Letter about officers and Japanese, and
the advance in Burma.
13 February Has majority: the campaign a costly one.
15 February Mentions the Maharaja of Manipur and his
brother
18 February About an article in the press mentioning
the unit and him.
7 March Japanese in full retreat. Lt. Col Parsons
appointed C.O.
15 March With the 19th Indian Division under General
Rees.
29 March His unit have freed Anglo-Indians and
Anglo-Burmese interned by the Japs. Japanese have stripped the country. Gurkha
officer finds his family in Maymo starving. In the victory parade at Mandalay
Fort.
3 April Been entertaining ex-internees and
ex-refugees.
11 April Has been in action again.
18 April Major Ayub Khan transferred to old unit.
25 April Old orderly dies in hospital.
5 May Action. Personal. Rangoon fallen.
10 May V.E. day. Spent mostly in action. Does not
see the end of Jap war under 18 months.
18 May Fighting Japanese fierce resistance east of
Toungoo.
26 May Monsoon making things difficult. Describes
ruin of Burmese through the Japanese inflationary rate of exchange.
29 May Army activities from when he joined the 1st
Btn. The Assam Regt.when it was in the23rd Indian Division, covering the
withdrawal of Alexander's Army, up to the fall of Rangoon.
30 May Expresses disgust at Parliamentary talk of
improving Amenities in the East, which he considers very poor.
5 June Still in action. Personal, about conditions.
12 June Complains about no repatriation arrangements
for Indian Army. Mopping-up operations.
24 June (2 letters) Regimental 4th Birthday party
described. Each tribe did its own songs and dances.
28 June Has led a most successful action.
5 July Concern for Indian troops. Sepoys get no
family allowance. Asks for cigarettes from Welsh mission supporters instead of
temperance tracts.
12 July Still on 'mopping-up'.
19 July Mentions Wavell's talks in Simla failing
again.
31 July Demobilisation plans. Japanese war coming to
an end.
6 August Has been allotted a Japanese sword.
17 August Feelings about armistice marred by a
grenade exploding among his men. No cause for celebration, only gratitude and
remembrance.
27 August Has been ill. Personal.
13 September Personal. The Company gave a party for
the local children.
21 September Comments on Self-Government in India.
26 September Wants to be present for Dasera which he
has always missed.
2 October Effects of mepacrine on malaria.
10 October Been inspecting Jap P.O.W. camp. Been to
Gracie Fields' show.
14 October Leave assured by posting of Lushai
commissioned Officer (Captain Sailo) as 2nd-in-command, a chieftain class.
Dasera ceremony of goat-head decapitation taken place at start of festival, a
week of celebration.
18 October Dasera ending. Going on leave to
Ranikhet. Mentions inflated prices in Bengal, and the starving poor. Plans for
life after demobilisation.
1 November Ranikhet: describes leave.
14 November Goes to Cawnpore at end of leave via
Lucknow, where there is 'hartal' in sympathy with I.N.A. trials. Remarks on
I.N.A.
21 November Back in Calcutta. Seeing Test Match:
Australians v East Zone.
25 November Comments on Calcutta disturbances.
Volunteers to command a Company of British military personnel to keep order.
Feels the grievances of striking Corporation workers just. Cricket resumed.
14 December Back with unit. Sails to Rangoon Going
with unit to Kalaw. Describes General Rees' farewell parade.
19 December Chasing dacoits.
22 December Christmas programme.
1946
10 January Journey to Kalaw with 130 men, 120
P.O.W.'s and stores. Describes making Kalaw camp comfortable. Release news.
20 January Still preparing the camp-site. High
opinion of Lushai Christians.
26 January Move down to Meiktila in plains.
31 January Hints at military changes in Burma. Gives
some accounts of the fighting he has been in.
6 February Packing to leave Kalaw. Japanese Colonel
thanks him. Is given a Lushai shawl.
2 March News they are returning to the hills before
the monsoon. Mentions Indian Naval mutiny.
19 March Back to Maymo - best hill station in Burma.
Expensive, due to inflation.
25 March May be released in September. Gives
description of his tent ready for monsoon.
21 April Tribal dancing on Good Friday.
28 April Says that conditions in Beyond the Chindwin
are what his Battalion has been fighting in. (Book by Claud Wingate).
12 May Helping police in raids and arrests in remote
areas. People not seen troops before.
23 May As above, arrangements for leaving army.
30 May Has been helping police to deal with crime in
Upper and Lower Chindwin. Describes mopping-up process. Goes round with D.S.P.
who is a Shan who shows him great kindness.
7 June Back in Maymo, preparing for General's visit.
News that he is coming home, probably in August.
16 June About going home, having turned down
invitation to extend service for six months by commanding Jungle Warfare School
in Burma.
14 July About returning. Fattening a pig for a
farewell party to his Company.
31 July Has orders to leave for Rangoon. Gives
details of what has to be done before leaving. (page missing).
Miscellaneous collection of undated letters, notes
etc. from collection (10 items).
BOX IV
Collection of newsletters and other items relating
to the Assam Regiment from 1946 onwards.
Assam Regimental Newsletter written from the lst
Battalion. The Assam Regiment in Shillong.
Christmas 1946 by Lt. Col. Hugh Parsons
March 3, 1947 by Captain Peter Steyn
May 1947 by Lt. Col. Hugh Parsons
Christmas 1947 by D.H. Mappin.
Copy of The Rhino: Silver Jubilee Number of the
Assam Regiment's publication. (1941-1966).
Photograph of Memorial Tablet to Lt. Col. W.F.
Brown, D.S.O., O.B.E., Commandant of lst Battalion Assam Regiment, in the
parish church at Whittlesey. Unveiled 1950.
13 December 1947 Preliminary letter from D.E.L.J.
about Reunions.
Assam Regiment Re-Union Club.
Newsletter No.l, December 1948 (written by D.E.L.J.)
Appendix 1: With the Second Battalion, N.W. Frontier
and Ambala 1946-47, by Lewis Collinson. 4pp.
Conditions and attitudes of Pathans towards Assam
Regiment in 1946-47; tensions, incidents. Description of terrible plight of
refugees seen during journey to Ambala. State of refugee camps. Attitude of the
men of the Assam Regiment.
Newsletter No.2, June 1949.
Appendix 2:
ëFrom a Subaltern's Diaryí by G. Mackenzie. Short
memoir of December 1941 - assembling and training new recruits at Digboi.
ëIn Burma 1947í by Peter Steyn. Short memoir of the
lst Battalion's anti-dacoit operation in Mandalay.
Newsletter No.3 10 December 1949
Newsletter No.4 1 May 1950
Newsletter No.5 2 December 1950
Appendix 3:
ëDacoit operations in Burma, 1946í, by Peter Steyn.
Anecdotes of the Battalion in Burma.
Newsletter No.6 18 May 1951
Appendix 4:
ëWith the 2nd at Ranipetí by R.E. Jenks. Incident of
camp flooding.
Newsletter No.7 December 1951.
Mentions collection of photographs of the Naga Hills
compiled by Mr. Kiernan (over 500) which he wished to increase and complete.
Newsletter No.8 17 May 1952
Appendix 5:
ëIncident during Independence arrangements in
Sylhetí by J.S. Collicut.
Newsletter No.9 December 1952.
Contains account of returning to Assam as a
tea-planter by Peter Steyn, 1952. Conditions in Bombay, Calcutta and from the
tea-garden in Assam. Comments on Nehru, Naga situation and state of Assam.
Also included in a newspaper cutting about
Commission of Inquiry appointed in October 1952 to inquire into outbreak of
disorder in Kohima.
Appendix 6:
ëAccount of Delhi after August 15, 1947 during the
fightingí. (Description of the refugee Camp at Humayan's Tomb controlled by J.
Walmesley, (q.v.) Lady Arthur Smith, Mrs. B.K. Nehru and Bishop Mukerjee.
Psychological attitudes.
ëDiseaseí, by Peter Steyn. Written, January 1948.
Appendix 7:
A brief article on the Tribal Areas of Assam: The
Autonomous Districts, the N.E. Frontier Agency, and Government Development
Projects, by Thenphunga Sailo.
Newsletter No.10 May 1953
Newsletter No.11 November 1953
Account by Peter Steyn of the changes which had
taken place in Digboi in the ten years since the lst Battalion was there. Also
account of the changes in the Abor district in 1950 due to the earthquake:
Missionaries and Naga troubles..
Newsletter No. 12 May 1954
Account of Shillong newspaper of the History and
achievements of the Assam Regiment at the unveiling of their War Memorial in
Shillong. The writer, D. Lloyd Jones, mentions his trek in 1943 with Gyles
Mackrell - quotation from The Daily Telegraph, 24 February 1954 about his
rescue work for refugees in the Chaukan Pass. (See Mackrell: FILMS).
Newsletter No.13 December 1954
Quotations from Daily Telegraph about trouble among
the tribes of the N.E. Frontier of India, and also about the British patterns
preserved in the Indian Army. Quotation from The Times about Kohima.
Newsletter No.14 May 1955
Appendix 8:
ëThe Rhino and Running Waterí - an account of an
amusing war incident by Major Amar Sen of the Assam Regiment.
Newsletter No.15 November 1955
Newsletter No.16 June 1956
Quotations about the Maharaja of Manipur and the
Indian National Army Memorial.
Newsletter No.17 November 1956
Appendix 9:
Regimental Newsletter from Assam and letter from
P.B. Singh, The Palace, Imphal, Manipur State. (Brother of the Maharajah).
Newsletter No.18 May 1957
Brief account of P. Steyn's visit to the Battalion
in Shillong, and other letters.
Newsletter No.19 December 1957
Newsletter No.20 June 1958
Newsletter No.21 November 1958
Newsletter No.22 June 1959
Description of Regimental Reunion in Assam
Newsletter No.23 November 1959
Obituary notice from The Times of Major-General T.
Wynford Rees.
Newsletters No.24 June 1960 to No.33, June 1964
Newsletter No.34 December 1964
Obituary from The Times of Sir Robert Reid.
Newsletters No.35 June 1965 to No.37, June 1966
Newsletter No.38 February 1967
Book Review of Kohima by Arthur Swainson and ensuing
correspondence in the Kentish Gazette.
Newsletter No.39 June 1967
Reproduction from the Arny list of the Assam
Regiment, Part 2 of October 1945.
Newsletters No.40 March 1968 to No.42, April 1969.
Newsletter No.43 January 1970
Brief extract from Mr. Eric Lambert's diary of siege
of Kohima.
Newsletters No.44 June 1970 to No.46, June 1971.
Newsletter No.47 February 1972
Account of the unveiling of the memorial to the
Indian Allied Forces 1946 - 1947 in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Newsletter No.4 July 1972
Newsletter No.49 February 1973
ëReturn to India and the Assam Regimentí, 1972 by
D.E. Lloyd Jones. 15pp.
Detailed diary of a month's tour of India and Assam
by Mr and Mrs. Lloyd Jones, visiting friends, and battalions of the Assam Regiment,
where they were welcomed very warmly.
Newsletters No.50 July 1973 to No.51, January 1974
Newsletter No.52 June 1974
ëIndia and Nepal 1973: a sentimental journeyí by Lt.
Colonel E.H.M. Parsons.
Detailed diary of Colonel Parsons' return trip to
India, at the invitation of the Commandant of the Assam Regimental Centre in
Shillong. 14pp.
Newsletter No.53 February 1975
Newsletter No.54 - June 1975
Mentions the Centre of South Asian Studies'
activities, in particular the films.
Newsletters of the Assam Regiment Reunion Club No.l,
19.
Including ëReturn to India and the Assam Regiment:
1972í by Colonel D.E. Lloyd Jones, and ëIndia and Nepal, 1973: a sentimental
journeyí, by Lt. Colonel E.H.M. Parsons. TS appendices to Newsletters Nos.
Photograph of memorial plaque to the Assam Regiment
in the parish church of St. Andrews, Whittlesey - Dedicated 1950.
Pamphlet:
David Edward Evans: a Welshman in India, by D.E.
Loyd Jones, M.C., B.A, Reprinted from the Transactions of the Honourable
Society of Cymmrodorion, Session 1967, Part 1.
Short biography of D.E. Evans 1885. Joined Indian
Navy - 1888; Indian General Steam Navigation and Railway Co. of Calcutta;
joined Ralli Bros. as consulting engineer: became Superintendent Engineer -
1931.
(Newsletters of the Assam Regimental Association
continue to be received yearly).
Given by Major A.G. McCall, I.C.S. through Mr. A.C.
Bowman
Assam: 1938-1951
Account of Major A.G. McCall's Total Defence Scheme
for the Lushai Hills during the World War II period, where he was
Superintendent (113 pp TS).
Returning to Residency 8 December 1941 hears of
Pearl Harbour. Goes to Calcutta to get news. Call on Chinese Consul, business
firm, finding there dismay at British myopia of the situation, and the actual
myopia at Army H.Q.
Period of indecision on what to do about defence.
Retrospective account of McCall's introduction of
'the Ten Point Code', the Welfare System, the Lushai Hills Cottage Industries
and inauguration of the Chiefs' Durbar - aim was unity - McCall shown to be a
real leader, therefore in January 1942 he sends his Lushai Hills Defence Scheme
to the Governor of Assam (Sir Robert Reid).
Lushai Hills Civil Defence Scheme: description and explanation.
It becomes, with Assam War Committee's sanction, the Lushai Total Defence
Scheme.
Account of McCall's speech to the chiefs of North
Lushai on 2 April 1942 outlining the T.D.S. and their discussion and replies.
McCall marches to the South Lushai Hills to enlist
chiefs' help there, and in particular the Sub-divisional officer's (Mr. L.L.
Peters) acceptance of the role of leadership Mr. Peters and Mr. Naylor (Chin
Hills) of opinion that levies would be better.
Consolidation of T.D.S. in North Lushai Hills.
Planning together with military.
Plan of defence campaign by the people.
Plan of defence by military.
Account of military conferences, defence discussions
and changing situation.
Position of the Welsh Mission: Pacifist.
Their brave decision to remain as long as possible
has a steadying influence. Indirectly helped T.D.S.
Notes on Postal Service and status of the volunteer
in wartime.
Notes on events after the withdrawal, from Burma of
all troops - June 1942.
Change of Governor. Advisers to new Governor (Sir
Andrew Clow) had never set foot in the Hills.
July 1942 - few operational troops being sent to
Aijal.
T.D.S. and military formation. Part played by
General Scoones.
August and September 1942 Japs much nearer.
Incident of American. survivors of a crashed Flying
Fortress.
Tempo of war on Eastern Frontier of India increasing
which meant a reduction of responsibility for T.D.S.
Tension of the waiting period in September/October
1942.
Aijal Road Project. Already traced out in 1937 to
connect the plains of Cachar with the Lushai Hills. Needed to be made properly.
Started with idea it would take 6 weeks but took months. Eventually appeal made
to the Indian Tea Association who responded with coolies from all over India.
At one time 50,000 people working on project. Begun August 1942 lasted until
February 1944. Some considered it a waste. McCall justifies it as making attack
on lines behind Tiddim and Haka possible. (see Films: Mackrell - No.25)
Interview with General Irwin, 5 November 1942.
Air Warning scheme begun.
Criticism begins of McCall as failing to appreciate
the whole situation.
In May 1943 the Governor posts him to Shillong. Deep
distress and anger over this.
June 17, 1943 - first jeep drives through to Aijal
from Cachar on the Aijal Road.
Disconnected notes about individuals and incidents.
Notes on Labour forces.
Notes on what was going on in "V" Force.
Notes on administrative confusion.
Notes on the Chin Hills.
Further disconnected notes on the T.D.S.
Notes on handing-over in June 1943.
Original papers and letters, and copies of papers,
relating to the Lushai Total Defence Scheme.
1. Lushai Total Defence Scheme
D.O. to Governor's Secretary on T.D. Scheme 3.2.42
Letter to Governor of Assam on Labour Problems
8.3.42
Correspondence with Col. Critchley on T.D. matters
March-April 1942
Memos on staffing for T.D. Scheme March-April 1942
Memo on operational considerations for Pasalthas
16.4.42
Memo on Evacuation 17.4.42
Address to Chiefs in Durbar (with subsequent
Manifesto) 2.4.42
Extract of Confidential Reports 5.4.42-6.1.43
U.O. letter to Governor's Secretary on Lushai cases
in controversy over T.D. Scheme 23.1.43
Memo to Governor's Secretary (ëIntolerable
Situationí) 9.8.43
Extract from Fortnightly Report by E.S. Hyde, I.C.S.
10.11.44
Article on Major McCall's T.D. Scheme in The
Statesman Summer 1945
Copy of letter from Lt. Col. Parsons on T.D. Scheme
August 1954
2. E.S. Hyde I.C.S. - Correspondence
Note on Southern Portion of Eastern Frontier between
Chindwin Valley and Bay of Bengal 8.7.42 Note on R.A.F. Movements 13.5.43
Letters relating to T.D.S. and defence of Eastern
frontier; some criticisms of personnel deployment and strategy: 7.4.43;
24.4.43; 17.5.43; 18.5.43; 20.5.43; 21.5.43; 6.6.43; 14.6.43; 12.6.44; 12.12.51
3. Military Papers
Letter from "V" Force Command to Major
C.G. Cuerdon about changes in command of lst Assam Rifles in "V"
Force 8.7.42
Memo on the Army and Sanctions: Major McCall July
1943
The Story of "V" Force
Note on Independent Brigade Group (Lushai Brigade).
4. Report on Zawngling Area, 1943: Major McCall
5. Lushai Industries
Notes on Red and Black Lacquers
Note on Moulding of Brass, by Pu Neithunga of
Chalrang.
Notes on indigenous dyes and casting, by Rev. R.A.
Lorrain.
Method of Ting dyeing, by Pu Thingkima Sailo, Chief
of Chalrang.
The military records reflect and document the whole
spectrum of military affairs both of the East India Company's armies and of the
armies of the Government of India. These range from military policy, defence
schemes and the organisation of army, navy and air force in India to the
careers - appointments, pay, leave, promotions and pensions - of individual
officers and soldiers in the Indian Army, the Indian Medical Service and the
Royal Indian Navy. Medal rolls, prize and batta rolls, and soldiers' letters
are included among the Military Department records, as are the records of
soldiers' and cadets' entry into the military service in England before
embarkation. The contents of the India Office Military Department Library of
official publications are also included here. Associated with the Military
Department records are the papers of the India Office War Staff (L/WS) organisation,
which maintained its own files on military strategy, organisation, intelligence
and supply. A catalogue has been published: A.J. Farrington, Guide to the
Records of the India Office Military Department (London, 1982).
These papers are described and listed with Military
Department Records (see L/MIL above).
Wavell Collection: xerox copies of papers
of Field Marshal Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883- 1950),
as Viceroy of India 1943-47.
18 volumes 1943 - 1947 View Contents List
McCall Collection: papers of Maj Anthony
Gilchrist McCall (1895-1978), Royal Artillery 1914-21, Indian Civil Service
1921-47, Superintendent of the Lushai Hills, Assam 1931-43, including papers
and drafts of articles and books relating to his scheme for the Total Defence
of the Lushai Hills in the Second World War.
100 items
1915 - 1976 View Contents
List
Muspratt Collection: diaries, articles,
lectures, photographs and memorabilia of General Sir Sydney Frederick Muspratt
(1878-1972), illustrating his life and career in the Indian Army 1898-1941,
particularly on the North-West Frontier; also Muspratt family papers, dated
1801-55 and 1897-1918.
128 items
1901 - 1968 View Contents
List
Bowman Collection: papers of Archibald Ian
Bowman (1915-87), Indian Civil Service, United Provinces 1937-47, chiefly
relating to his role in the Lushai Hills Total Defence Scheme and `V' Force
1942-44, and his continuing interest in the Lushai (or Mizo) people after
independence; also papers of Maj Anthony Gilchrist McCall (1895- 1978),
Superintendent of the Lushai Hills 1931-43.
64 items
1937 - 1987 View Contents
List
Ouwerkerk Collection: diaries, letters and
papers of Louise Ouwerkerk (1904-89), University teacher in Travancore 1929-39,
wartime internee 1940-41, employed on official publicity work in India 1942-46,
teacher in West Africa 1953-63, teacher in India and England 1963-71.
95 items
1929 - 1983 View Contents
List
Memoirs, diaries, reports and personal
correspondence of Brig William Morgan Tilson Magan (b 1908), Indian Army
1928-c1946; covering his life in India as a member of the 12th Frontier Force
Cavalry, Hodson's Horse and whilst in the Intelligence Bureau, Home Dept, Govt
of India.
19 items
1927 - 1944 View Contents
List
Memoir, dated 1987, by Capt Michael Argles
(b 1922), Indian Army 1941-46, describing his training and service with the
Royal Indian Army Service Corps including postings to Mhow, Poona, Ranchi,
Nanjangud in Mysore, Trichinopoly and Calcutta.
6 folios
1941 - 1946
Tape recording of interview, given 1983, by
Coralie May Taylor (b 1898), on her life in India as the wife of Stanley
Grisewood Taylor (1893-1980), Indian Police, Bengal 1913-47, on her husband's
career, and on her service during the Second World War in the Women's Auxiliary
Corps (India).
1 cassette 1919 - 1947
Typescript history of the Calcutta Light
Horse, written c1938, by Ralph Kington Hewetson Brice, Bengal Covenanted Pilot
Service 1929-c1947; with brief biographies of three officers of the Calcutta
Light Horse.
1 folder
1759 - 1938
Papers and photographs of Norman D Harris,
ICI (India) 1927-58, Company Chairman 1950-57, including three copies of
`Gallop', dated 1944-46, the Journal of the Calcutta Light Horse, and
miscellaneous material relating to business in Bengal.
1 portfolio; 20 photos 1915 - 1958
Letter, dated 12 Nov 1949, from Colin
Cleghorn to the Secretary of the Calcutta Light Horse Club donating three hog
spears of former members, including one belonging to John Alexander Anderson (b
c1848), co-founder of the firm Anderson Wright & Co 1872, and giving brief
biographical sketch of Anderson.
1 folio
1949 - 1949
(Air Vice Marshal Sir Allan Perry Keene) C.B.,
O.B.E.
Delhi, Simla, U.P., C.P., Punjab, Bengal. Later,
Pakistan 1934-1949
Reflected Glory - An Autobiography by Sir Allan
Perry-Keene. Privately printed 1978.
Posted by Air Ministry to India in 1934, he served
as a member of the Air Staff in Delhi and Simla until 1940. Posted to India
again at the end of World War II, he was appointed chairman of Air Force
Reconstruction Committee. He describes transition period for RAF in India until
formation of RIAF and RPAF. Later as Commander Royal Pakistan Air Force much
involved in Indo Pakistani was over Kashmir 1948-49.
Xerox copy of letter from George Renny to his
half-brother, dated 27 May 1858 from Bijnore, Rohilkand, concerning the part
his loyal Hindustani corps took in the siege of Delhi. 3pp.
Restricted
(Sir Robert H. Hutchings, C.M.G., C.I.E., I.C.S.)
Microfilm Box 1 No. 5
TS report on the evacuation from Burma. June 1942.
(Paul Lingeman)
Note on career in Burma and Assam oil-fields
1921-28; Chittagong, East Bengal 1929-32 where he encountered the question of
whether European clubs should admit Indian members; reason for European
aloofness; Chittagong Armoury Raid of 1930. Digboi Oilfield in Assam:
recruitment and training of workers: conditions of work; club membership; 1939
general strike; trades unions; war; 1942; Anglo-Indians, Anglo-Burmese;
retreat.
Photocopy made through the good offices of Mr S.F.
Bolt.
'The Burma Story (December 1941 - July 1942)' told
by Captain N.S. Tayabji (Indian Navy Retired) recounts the saga of the
evacuation of Burma following the Japanese advance into the country in
November-December 1941, and the massive bombing raids on Rangoon on 23rd and
25th December 1941. Captain Tayabji, at that time a representative of Tata Oil
Mills Company Ltd., 28 years of age, found himself 'catapulted' into the
Ministry of Commonwealth Affairs of the Government of India and, with the
Government Agent, Mr Hutchings, planned the evacuation of refugees from
Rangoon. Later he was ordered to set up refugee camps in Mandalay and to
represent the Agent of the Government of India in all matters involving law and
order, health clearances, issues of passes along the evacuation route and
finally to take charge of the Air Evacuation Scheme.
The memoir gives a poignant picture of the harships,
illness and tragedy which accompanied the great migration of refugees from
Mandalay in Burma to Imphal in Assam, and the devoted work against impossible
odds, of the camp administrators, the army, the civil authorities (particularly
the D.C. of Imphal) and the few educated and qualified refugees themselves. An
incident of particular horror was the Japanese bombing of the camps in Imphal.
The story closes with the author's onward journey to
Calcutta, a refugee himself and finally to Bombay where his application to join
the Indian Navy, made in 1934, was at last accepted. 47pp.
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Given by Sir Henry and Lady Birkmyre
Bengal: 1880 - 1945
Small Collections Box B1
Hastings Air Base: Headquarters U.S.A.A.F.
India-Burma Theater.
Printed December 1945.
A pictorial record of Hastings Factory in World War
II when it was turned from a jute factory into the U.S.A.A.F. H.Q. Hastings
Mill had been owned by the Birkmyre's who bought the land (previously owned. by
Warren Hastings as a summer home) and in 1874 built the first jute mill in
India. It became the largest mill under one roof. The mill was dismantled by
the U.S.A.A.F. and after the war reassembled by them.
Brief history of the Birkmyre connection with India
written in a letter by Sir Henry on 3 December 1975.
Copy of pictorial record of Hastings Factory during
the 1914-18 War when the factory changed from jute manufacture to munitions.
Copy of Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings about Lt.
Colonel A.M. Shewell of the Bombay Staff Corps who died from wounds received in
the retreat from Kandahar on the 2 September 1880. (Lt. Colonel Shewell was
Lady Birkmyre's grandfather).
Copy of a MS letter written on 7 November 1897 by an
officer in an unnamed regiment supporting the Dorset and Northamptonshire
Regiments in an action on the N.W.F.P. The letter vividly describes the action
and subsequent forays and retributive sorties.
(Sir Edward C. Benthall)
Given by Sir Paul Benthall
All India, but mainly Bengal: 1928 - 1956
A detailed list of the contents of each box is in the
archive of the Centre of South Asian Studies.
BOX I
1928-1929:
File marked 'No.10'. November and December 1928
Business correspondence received while in England on
leave. Information regarding railways - reports on Titaguhr Mills - use of
bamboo to make paper etc. - Carnatic paper mills - Government contract for
paper - future sales policy. 175pp.
File marked 'No.13'. December 1928 - January 1929
Mostly business correspondence received in England
while on leave. Staff changes - labour problems at Paper Mills - notes on
discussion regarding Burrakur Coal Co. - Contract with Tata Iron & Steel
Co. - manganese - details of Jute Mills policy - Assam Saw Mills - Punjab Sugar
Corporation Ltd. - production of jute at various companies such as Assam Saws,
Cement, Jute & Manganese - Madras and Silvertown Oils - Lord Cable's
Estate, with reasons for not making Bird & Co. a Limited Company. 180pp.
BOX II
1931-1932:
File No.3. December 1931 - July 1932
Business and political correspondence. Artificial
ghee - Jute Mills - journey to England on leave - interview with Gandhi in
Bombay - arrest of Gandhi - Inchcape's illness, possible death and the
resulting effect of shipping shares - appointment to the Consultative Committee
of the Round Table Conference - return to Calcutta - resolution passed by the
Bombay Chamber of Commerce, 6 January 1932 - Lord Cable's Estate - financial
affairs of Bird & Co. - India Publications Limited with list of firms
supporting it - financial problems of W.L. Carey - staff shortage - Hindu and
Moslem tension - notes and supports on coal mines - Chartered Bank of India -
Calcutta Electrical Supply Corporation - U.K. tarriffs - draft accounts of F.W.
Heilgers & Co. and Bird & Co. - East African Investment Co. Ltd. -
Anglo South American Bank.
File marked 'Gandhi'. 1931
Various papers, notes and letters from and about
Gandhi. Also Birla, Sir Maurice Gwyer, Sir Hubert Carr, Sir P. Thakurdas,
Ramsay Macdonald - London, October 1931 - Newspaper cuttings about Gandhi.
File marked '1931-1932, chronologically arranged
from back to front'.
Correspondence relating to the Round Table
Conference where Benthall served on a sub-committee to consider Financial and
Commercial safeguards. Also on meetings with Gandhi in London. Others such as
Birla, Mody, Sapru, Sir Hubert Carr, the Prime Minister (Ramsay Macdonald), the
Aga Khan, Tegart; Mrs. Naidu, Lady Reading, Mrs. Subbarayan, the Viceroy
(Willingdon) and many others connected with the R.T.C. in London. Gandhi's
visit to Eton.
BOX III
April, May, June 1933:
File contains correspondence and memorandum of Sir
Edward Benthall while he was in London serving as witness to the Joint Select
Committee to the R.T.C.
Subjects: The views of the Indian Chamber of
Commerce, North India Commercial Seat, Lancashire, purchase of Indian cotton,
Commercial Safeguards, Employers' Federation of India.
File marked 'Special Political Memoranda - Summer
1933'
Contents: Papers relating to the Bengal Chamber of
Commerce, Circular letters; Commercial Safeguards, Federal Finance; the Assam
Oil Company; Proposals for Indian Constitutional Reform.
BOX IV
File marked 'Political Summer 1933'
Contents: 1933 unless otherwise stated.
Correspondence dealing with membership to the International Chamber of Commerce
- terrorism in Bengal - Bird & Co. business - re-organisation of the
European Association - the Anglo-Indian Community - The Morning Post - the
Communal Award - the transfer of Law and Order powers - Special Branches -
C.I.D. - the political climate in Bengal - finances for the Star of India -
European Representation on Legislature - Cotton Piece goods.
File marked 'Special Political Memoranda. Summer
1933'
Contents: On the White Paper for Indian
Constitutional Reforms - Bengal Industries Association - The Road-Rail
Conference in April - The Workmen's Compensation Act 1923 - correspondence with
the Assam Oil Company and the Burmah Oil Company - the European Group serving
on the Joint Select Committee - annual reports for the Company.
BOX V
File containing correspondence from the year 1933
while E.B. was in England.
Contents: Advertising in Star of India (Nazimuddin)
- Reforms and Income Tax - Central organisation of Chambers of Commerce -
progress of Joint Select Committee - Assam branch of European Associations
opposition Capital Expenditure Scheme (Runciman) - Cotton (India, Japan and
Lancashire) - Morning Post, letters from Europeans against the White Paper's
proposed Reforms - Anglo-Indian and Domiciled Europeans - Northern India
Commercial Seat, - The Reserve Bank. 241 pp.
File marked 'Special Political Memoranda, Summer
1933'
Contents: Political memoranda on the proposals for
Indian Constitutional Reform relating to the State Bank of India, Chambers of
Commerce, Commercial Safeguards. Also memoranda relating to the Thirteenth
Congress of the Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire in July. 153pp.
BOX VI
1935, August 13 - December 30:
Correspondence received while on leave in England.
Iron and steel including correspondence with Sir Nowrasjee Saklatwala about a
possible merger between Tata Iron & Steel Company of Bombay and the Bengal
Iron Company. 273 pp.
File marked 'Political File from June 1935 to
September 1935'
Mostly business letters received while on leave in
England. Reserve Bank of India, letters and circulars - share issue - Provident
Fund Regulations - The Associated Chambers of Commerce of India - letters from
Bird & Co., - notes on the Simla session of the Legislative Assembly,
September 1935 - Industrial Bulletin of the Employers' Federation of India -
the political organisation of the Europeans in Bengal with reference to Sir
John Anderson. 320pp.
BOX VII
Diaries kept by E.B. 1929-1933 and 1942-1946:
Business affairs set against events in India. Many
political discussions both with Indian and British leaders. Visit to Sikkim.
The Cripps' Mission. Tours various parts of India. Effects of the war on India.
E.B.'s views on the Government and the feelings he encounters.
BOX VIII
Two files containing a collection of newspaper
political cartoons from 1942-46:
Various articles and speeches on the business
community in India. Documents and photographs concerned with the port of Bombay
disaster in 1944. Letters from Sri Prakasa 1948-1959. Part of a TS entitled 'A
History of India, 1942- 1957'.
BOX IX
File labelled 'Sir E.C. Benthall, Political File,
1935 from October'.
Subjects cover The Reserve Bank - E.B. invited to
serve on Company Law Committee by Sir Nripendranath Sircar - the Vickers'
proposals presentation to Sir Hubert and Lady Carr at Claridges Hotel in
London; elections of the Directors of the Reserve Bank - formation of a
Constitutional Party: the European viewpoint - the establishing of an Indian
Institute of International Affairs - employing A.D. Curtis-Miller -
conversations with Sir James Grigg on the need for reform at the centre as
being of the utmost importance. 200pp.
File No. 2A, September to November 1935:
Business correspondence concerning coal mines, jute
mills, railways, government interventions into industries, engineering works,
Company Law Reform. 450pp.
BOX X
File containing correspondence while E.B. was in
England from June - September 1935:
Bird & Co., business affairs: Jute Mill
interests - Association working agreement - Quetta reconstruction - Karanpura
Development Co. and Bisra Stone Lime Co. - employment of staff - Coimbatore
Cement Co. - R. Steel & Co. Ltd. - Ramgarh Estate at Hazaribagh - Indian
Red Cross Society in Bengal - F.W. Heilgers & Co., Rangoon - Steel Baling
Co. - Government intervention in the Jute Trade - the Lindridge Lease (E.B.'s
residence in Devon). 615pp.
BOX XI
1937
March to July 1937. Business and private
correspondence received while on leave in England.
Coal mine reports, i.e. Kavanpura - Societa
Marmifera Italiana - Jute Mills - staff appointments - Kumardhubi Steel Foundry
- Assam Saw Mills - Karanpura Leases - business negotiations in Japan (Mr.
Tapuchi) - unemployment of undergraduates - Eastern Minerals Ltd. Jute Mills
Apprentice Scheme - Financial position of both firms July 1937 - Sirka Bose
Coal Mine - labour difficulties - Foundation ceremony of the Dalmis Cement
Company in Karachi - Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art (Luzac &
Co.) - Isco Iron Ore - Lady Benthall's ill health - position of the Star of
India - resignation of C.H. Jenner - Trade Unions in Jute Mills - requests for
positions in India - Coal Contracts - Katras Coalmine - Rai Bahadur Promatha
Nath Mullick, - Draft speech on the founding of Calcutta by Job Charnock -
Rules for the granting of Retiring Allowance for Indian Staff in Head Office -
Somakunda Baling Share - Note on Chandigarh sandstone deposits - pig iron for
Japan. 483pp.
BOX XII
File marked 'Political Correspondence received while
on leave in England, February to August 1937':
Printed matter related to the International Chamber
of Commerce and typed circulars from the Associated Chambers of Commerce of
India and the Federation of Chambers of the British Empire - the European
Group, Bengal Legislature - correspondence between E.C. Benthall and members of
Bird & Co. in Calcutta and various. Indian politicians - Jute Mills strike
- Society for the Protection of Children in India - Ottawa Agreement - Bengal
Budget for 1937/38 - Indian Jute Mills Association Bengal - political situation
- Jute Mills and labour - papers relating to a meeting held at Chatham House in
June on cultural relations between the West and India. 417pp.
BOX XIII
Three files containing business and political
correspondence received while in England, July to December 1937:
Reports on the coal mines and Jute Mills -
propaganda leaflets encouraging strike action - iron ore to Japan - dealings
with Tata Iron & Steel Co. staff arrangements and home leave - safeguards
for European policy. Papers and letters to do with the Insurance Bill have
references to many of the then political leadership such as Nehru, Desai,
Sircar and Jinnah. 882pp.
BOX XIV
File of general correspondence, mostly business,
received while on leave in England 1937/38:
Strikes at the Jute Mills - a copy of an account of
the arrival in Calcutta in 1908 of one of Heilger's early employees - Birds
audited accounts - communist activity amongst the firm's dock labour -
inefficiency of the Calcutta Electric supply. 540pp.
BOX XV
File of business and political correspondence
received while in London at the Ministry of Economic Affairs from August -
December 1941:
Sugar production - letters and reports from mines
and mills - releasing men in business for combatant service in war irrespective
of the effect on commerce - British views of the position in India. 562pp.
BOX XVI
1941:
Business and political correspondence received while
at the Ministry of Economic Affairs from January - April 1941:
Possibility of newsprint manufacture in India -
labour unions - the opinions of various Indian leaders on India's future,
British war policy and the state of Indian business and commerce (letter no.
16) - Jute Mills position - staff problems, cost of living - minutes of
partners' meetings - letters and reports on various mines, mills and factories
- staff salaries. 485pp
BOX XVII
April 1941 - May 1942:
Correspondence received while in England at the
Ministry of Economic Warfare.
Ministry and Indian correspondence and reports from
Associations - the European Group in the Bengal Legislature - comments on
various Indian leaders - letters expressing views of members of the European
Association on their position in India - reactions of the Muslim League -
Congress National Party - Commercial Safeguards - diaries of events in India -
publicity for India in the U.K. and U.S.A.; dock labour - British Constitutional
Reform in India - the Roger Mission - Propaganda for India. 516pp.
BOX XVIII
1942:
General correspondence from January to May 1942 when
in England attached to the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Deals with business and
political matters in India, reports of companies and output of mills and mines
- minutes of partners' meetings - precautions against emergencies in Calcutta -
different measures prepared in case of invasion - A.R.P. activity - paper
supplies - sugar market - strikes at mills - memorandum on jute industries
-general conditions of everyday life - formation of labour battalion. 5,04pp.
BOX XIX
File marked 'Politics, 1940' - Covering the years
1939-1944:
Correspondence with Sir John Herbert, Lord
Linlithgow and Auchinleck. Published correspondence between Linlithgow and
Gandhi.
Copies of the minutes of the Executive Council's
meetings from July-October 1942 approximately, covering the Congress campaign
and the Working Committee's Resolution. Papers by E.B. on the political
situation in India at that time. Notes, in diary form, taken after discussion
with various Indian political leaders. Various other letters and papers
connected with the European Association, expansion of the Air force and several
newspaper cuttings. 390pp.
BOX XX
Two files containing newspaper cuttings,
miscellaneous notes and statistics all relating to Indian currency and Indian
financial management and the establishment of a State Bank. Various
parliamentary papers on those subjects, covering the years 1912/13 and 1931/32
and 1939. 194pp.
BOX XXI
Typed paper entitled, 'The Political Situation in
India in March 1940' 69pp.
Short stories and articles mostly by E.B. and
extracts from 'The First Letter Book of the East India Company 1600- 1619'. A
record of John Benthall working as a mercantile assistant in 1630
approximately.
BOX XXII
Miscellaneous letters, mostly personal - collection
of newspaper cuttings from India and England, mostly relating to the time Sir
Edward was War Minister for Transport 1942/43. 304pp.
Envelope marked C with three unidentified
photographs.
BOX XXIII
Mostly pamphlets, newspapers and letters relating to
Indian Railways, covering 1908-1947. 183pp.
BOX XXIV
Printed pamphlets relating to the Bengal Chamber of
Commerce covering 1904-1956.
BOX XXV
Printed pamphlets of a political and parliamentary
nature 1913-1956.
BOX XXVI
Biography of Geoffrey Garratt.
BOX XXVII
Benthall family correspondence from 1827-1875.
BOX XXVIII
Letters and papers of Edward Benthall 1837-1855
BOX XXIX
Family correspondence to and from India 1826-1893
BOX XXX
Diaries of Clementine Benthall in India 1841-1853
BOX XXXI
84 water-colour sketches of scenes in Bengal 1842-55
and Burma 1849.
BENTHALL PAPERS
BOX XXI
Given by Sir (Arthur) Paul Benthall. Sir Paul joined
Bird & Co. and F.W. Heilgers & Co. of Calcutta in 1924; he was
Vice-President, Bengal Chamber of Commerce in 1947 and its President in 1948.
Typescript notes by Sir Paul, written in 1970, of
encounters with three Indian leaders at the time of partition:
H. S. Suhrawardy. Describes negotiation with
Suhrawardy as a labour leader. Considers his part in 1943 Bengal Famine and
allegation that he engineered grain shortages to raise prices. Believes that
League's activities at time of partition were financed by Bengal Famine.
Gandhi. Describes interview with Gandhi in Calcutta
during autumn of 1947. Gandhi was seeking help of businessmen in rebuilding the
city. Twenty minutes after meeting, mob of young Hindus attempted to attack
Gandhi. Gives account of this.
Nehru. Met Nehru many times and although was treated
with much charm believes discussions were entirely useless. Describes their
work together on Gandhi Memorial Fund. Once, when in Calcutta, Nehru had violently
reacted to suggestion that Indian Army should intervene in East Pakistan to
protect Hindus. This was entirely typical of man. 6pp.
Sir Edward Charles Benthall. Partner, Bird & Co.
from 1923; Governor, Imperial Bank of India 1928-30; Member, Bengal Legislative
Assembly 1934-35; Member, Governor-General's Executive Council, War Transport
and Railways 1942-46.
Additional material given by Mr R.P. Benthall (son).
Books:
A history of Bird & Co. By M.S. Jacomb-Hood. 2
Vols. Calcutta: Privately printed for the Company, 1929.
The Cable: the house magazine of the Birds &
Heilgers Group. 4 Vols, 1950-64. [Lord Cable (1859-1927) joined Bird & Co.
in 1881 and was made a Partner in 1886.]
BOX 31
1. Will and Codicils of Lord Cable. Will dated 30
October 1925; First Codicil dated 3 December 1926; Second Codicil dated 14
March 1927. 38ff.
2. Memoranda with appendices on the Estate of Lord
Cable. 107pp in various pagings.
3. Lithograph book relating to the 'Mulberry
Scheme'. This related to a large number of proposed transactions mainly
concerning Eastern Investments Ltd. On 13 May 1946 the Trustees authorised the
Standard Trust Co. Ltd to proceed with the Scheme. 58ff.
Donated by K.W. Bevan
Calcutta 1931-c. 1951
Small Collections Box B1
'India'. A TS account written in 1980 of first
impressions made by the country on a young man, (himself), who had gone to Calcutta
to work in a firm of Chartered Accountants. He compares the life and
responsibilities of a young member of a firm in the 1930s and the 1980s.
'Work in India' describes the differences between
work in a Calcutta firm and one in England. He describes the Managing Agency.
Mentions the role of banks in the business world of Calcutta. 33pp.
These are the memoirs of four expatriate members of
the management staff of the Dunlop factory at Sahaganj, District Hooghly, West
Bengal, covering the years 1936-1965 and written in 1987. The four are John
Bawcutt, D.J. Birch, F.G.W. Jackson and David Osborne. A note about W.H.
Burdock, a fifth member of the staff who died some years ago, is written by
John Bawcutt.
The five papers describe the fortunes of the Dunlop
Tyre Company in India from its beginnings in 1936 until the mid 1960s. Its
expansion to Ambattur in Madras in 1959 is referred to. The Company was to
continue for another 15 years, until the mid 1980s, when it was sold to a local
conglomerate.
The pros and cons of the job are discussed. The
founding of trades unions and the difficulties in the supply of raw materials
are referred to. Social life for management staff, welfare projects for
workers, accommodation for management and workers are described. The process of
Indianization in management is also discussed.
Notes on tyre manufacture are attached to John
Bawcutt's paper and a note on the environs of Sahaganj, 'The Hooghly' is
attached to David Osborne's paper.
The records of a group of related departments
responsible for a wide range of economic, technical and social questions. The
departments were variously named Revenue, Statistics and Commerce (from 1858 to
1924), and Industries, Overseas, Communications and Economic (from 1921 to
1947). Their records deal particularly with land revenue, agriculture, trade
and industry, and increasingly with other aspects of the social infrastructure
such as census, posts, telegraphs and civil aviation.
Pinnell Collection: papers of Leonard
George Pinnell (1896-1979), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1920-47, Director of
Civil Supplies, Bengal 1942-43; co-ordinator of Bengal Government's evidence to
Famine Enquiry Commission 1943-44, Principal of of training course for military
officers returning to civil administration 1944-45; Chairman, Bengal
Development Board 1946-47; also printed speeches by Governors of Bengal
1936-46.
39 items
1932 - 1948 View Contents
List
Papers and photographs of Norman D Harris,
ICI (India) 1927-58, Company Chairman 1950-57, including three copies of
`Gallop', dated 1944-46, the Journal of the Calcutta Light Horse, and
miscellaneous material relating to business in Bengal.
1 portfolio; 20 photos 1915 - 1958
Indian Tea Association: archives of three
related organisations involved in the tea industry: the Indian Tea Trades
Association (later the Indian Tea Association, London); the Pakistan (later
Bangladesh) Tea Association, London; and the South Indian Association in
London.
2344 items 1879 - 1982 View Contents List
Cork Collection: papers of Frederick
Lawrence Cork (1885-1980), colliery manager 1908-37, mining consultant 1937-46,
employed by Macneill & Company, Calcutta, including colliery quarterly
reports 1937-45, Cork's inspection reports 1937-40, and colliery plans.
63 items
1907 - 1953 View Contents
List
MacRobert Collection: papers of Sir
Alexander MacRobert, 1st Bart (1854-1922), businessman, co-founder and Chairman
of the British India Corporation Ltd, Cawnpore, President of Upper India
Chamber of Commerce; and of his wife Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert (d 1954);
especially relating to their interests in the British India Corporation and its
subsidiary companies.
81 items
1888 - 1977 View Contents
List
Diaries, miscellaneous papers, and
memorabilia of Lt-Col (George Norman) Patrick Hodder (b 1903); Assistant, James
Finlay & Co. Ltd, Assam 1923-25; Manager, Midnapore Zamindari Co. Ltd,
Bengal 1925-37; Manager, Anderson Wright & Co. Ltd; wartime service in
Supply Dept, GHQ, India; later Chief Executive, East India Clinic and European
Hospitals Association, Calcutta.
110 items
1915 - 1987 View Contents
List
Calcutta Dinner Collection: papers relating
to the organization of the annual Calcutta Dinner held in London 1902- 69 for
ex- Calcutta businessmen.
63 items
1902 - 1969 View Contents
List
Papers of David Keith Cunnison (1881-1972),
Secretary, Bengal Chambers of Commerce c1906-33, dealing mostly with Bengal
Chamber of Commerce; also letters home to his mother
8 items
1900 - 1944 View Contents
List
`Brief Memoirs of a 'Box Wallah'': copy of
memoir by Lt-Cdr Brian David Hadlow (1911-81), describing his experiences of
working in Calcutta for the shipping firm Turner Morrison and Company 1933-39,
service with Calcutta Light Horse, and life as an officer of the Royal Indian
Navy Volunteer Reserve 1939-45.
1 portfolio 1939 - 1945
Tape recording of interview, given 1983, by
Sir (Arthur) Paul Benthall (b 1902), employee and later partner of Bird &
Company and F W Heilgers (merchants and managing agents), Calcutta, on his life
and career in India 1924- c1950.
2 cassettes 1924 - 1950
Papers of David Keith Cunnison (1881-1972),
Secretary, Bengal Chambers of Commerce c1906-33, dealing mostly with Bengal
Chamber of Commerce; also letters home to his mother
8 items
1900 - 1944 View Contents
List
Tape recording of interview, given 1984, by
Monica Clough on her life as a tea planter's daughter in Travancore in the
1920s and 1930s, and as the wife of a businessman in Calcutta in the 1940s.
2 cassettes 1925 – 1947
Tape recording of interview, given 1984, by
Hubert Cecil Gotts (b 1901) about his career with Cox and Co, Bankers, 1919-54,
in Bombay, Calcutta and Rangoon (Manager 1945-51), and his social life in India
and Burma. [Transcript available].
3 cassettes 1919 - 1951
Peon Book used to record items sent by
messenger by Mrs Ivy Lyn Martin, wife of Col Denys Richard Martin, Royal Engineers,
at Calcutta when she was managing director of the Dysulin Pharmaceutical
Company, and later at Rawalpindi.
1 volume
1940 - 1953
Letters to his parents from Albrecht R von
Leyden (d 1994), Managing Director of Agfa Ltd, India, describing his daily
life and work; also articles and memorabilia.
12 items
1927 - 1967 View Contents
List
`We were survivors': the memoirs,
1914-1940s, of Veronica Cara Downing (nee Westmacott) (b 1914), including a
record of her family history, her childhood in India and her life in Assam as
the wife of a tea planter.
1 portfolio 1914 - 1945
`Jim's Journal: excerpts from an
autobiography by James Murray' (b 1906), trader in scientific instruments,
giving an account of his life in India (1906-47).
63 pages
1906 - 1947
The Financial Department records are concerned with
the financial policy of the Government of India: banking, currency and
exchange, debts and loans, mints and coinage, audit principles, pay and pension
rules, taxation, and public expenditure. The earlier Company financial records
which are also included are more varied in character, and the records as a
whole are informative on the home establishment of the Company and the India
Office, on the post office, and on railways and public works finance.
The Accountant-General's Department dealt with the
comprehensive and systematic recording of receipts and disbursements by the Company
and the India Office, with the staff of the home establishment and their
salaries, with the estates and wills of persons dying in India, and with the
leave and furlough pay and pensions of members of the Indian civil and military
services. Among financial activities peculiar to the Company period are the
ledgers of the early joint-stock voyages and the registers of Company
stockholding and stock transfers. The records reflect almost all the functions
of the Company and the India Office, and also include the records of the London
offices of various Indian railways, irrigation and canal companies.
Original title deeds, charters, proclamations, royal
warrants, commissions, memorials, etc., relating to the East India Company's
rights, privileges and properties mainly in Britain; also volumes containing
printed or manuscript copies of charters and statues affecting the Company.
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Restricted
(E.L. Pawsey)
The Commissioners for the Port of Calcutta.
'Exhibited drawings for the construction, supply and delivery at the Port of
Calcutta of one twin screw buoy lifting despatch vessel. Marine Department,
September 1948.
Sir Claude Inglis' report on prospects of improving
the navigability of the Hooghly, together with reports and comments by the
Chairman, 1947.
Chittagong papers.
Papers referring to Calcutta Port Commission, August
1945.
History of the Port of Calcutta - Deputy
Conservator's Department. (Large tin file.)
River Hooghly Manual. 1949. Section 1. Extracts from
acts, rules and regulations.
Indian Railways Collection: correspondence,
papers and articles relating to Indian Railways, together with locomotive
diagrams and photographs, collected by Michael G Satow.
204 items
1845 - 1990 View Contents
List
Tape recording of interview, given 1989, by
Roy Edward King Nissen (b 1905), on his life and career in India as a member of
the European domiciled community and as an Accounts Officer in the Indian
Railways 1924-60.
4 cassettes 1905 - 1960
Accounts of British rule in India, in
particular of the Bihar Earthquake 1934 with copy photographs of earthquake
damage, and Calcutta and Bengal 1939-48, by Margaret Stavridi, wife of A G
Stavridi, East Indian Railway engineer; also printed account of `East Indian
Railway and Damodar Flood Breaches, 1943'; and Japanese war propoganda leaflet
[1942].
1 folder
1934 - 1948
Mrs Margaret Stavridi was with her husband
(Alexander Gregory Stavridi) in India where he worked as an engineer with the
East Indian Railway between 1921 and 1948. She was a writer and designer and
was also much involved with welfare work, especially during the 1939-45 war.
Material given by Mrs Stavridi.
BOX 1
Typescript copies of four articles:
(i) Regarding government service during British rule
in India. 2ff.
(ii) India 1939-1948: Bengal, Calcutta. 8ff.
(iii) The civilian war effort in Bengal, India
1939-1946. (For the "Forgotten Army"). 10ff.
(iv) The civilian war effort in Bengal for the
welfare of the "Forgotten Army" of the East, 1942-1946. 8ff.
The articles describe the work of BESA (Bengal
Entertainment for the Services Association) both in Calcutta and in "the
field". Mrs Stavridi was also involved with running canteens for troops,
organising visitors for the severely wounded in hospitals and launching the
Hospital Welfare Service. She describes civilian life in Bengal 1939-48 with
its natural disasters of cyclones, floods and famine.
2. Six letters, written after the Stavridis returned
to England, from their former servants 1948-69. 3 Folder entitled: 'The work of
civilians in Calcutta and Bengal in the 1939-1945 War' containing:
(i) Schicklgrüber by Robert Colling-Pyper and
Margaret Stavridi with an introduction by Lady Linlithgow. (Calcutta: Thacker's
Press and Directories, 1943.) The volume, which contains many coloured
illustrations, is a parody of the German work Struwelpeter, and is subtitled
'cautionary tales for modern times'. It treats cynically the various conquests
of Hitler and Mussolini. The folder includes letters from the British Red Cross
Museum and Archives written in 1992 and 1993 and relating to Schicklgrüber.
(ii) Annual reports, letters etc. concerning the
Bengal Home Industries Association. 1946-48.
(iii) Miscellaneous designs, letters and newspaper
cuttings. 8 Photographs. 1934-65.
(iv) Programmes, newspaper reviews, designs etc of
BESA-ENSA productions. Calcutta, 1940-46. Includes items on the following
productions: (1) 'For Poland': Karel Capek's Insect Play, 1940; (2) Arms and
Legs, 1941; (3) "Eve-an' Now": an intimate review of fashion by
Robert Colling-Pyper, [1943]; (4) Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, 1946. BOX 2
1. Costume and set designs for a review entitled
"Rise and Smile". 13 ff.
2. Typescript of text of "Eve-an' Now": an
intimate review of fashion. By Robert Colling-Pyper. 1942. 37pp.
3. A trip through the land of sunshine and surprise
over the E[ast] I[ndian] R[ailway]. 37pp, illustrated. 4. 1934: The Statesman
record of the great Indian earthquake. Calcutta.
44pp, illustrated.
5. "Hand outs" for press tour over East
Indian Railway, October 1944: Howrah Station and environments. Calcutta: East
Indian Railway Press, 1944. 6pp. BOXES P.1 AND P.2
1. 6 albums of photographs.
2. 5 envelopes of negatives.
3. 1 can of 7 ciné films.
Book:
"Curry & rice", on forty plates, or,
the ingredients of social life at "our station" in India. By George
Franklin Atkinson. 3rd ed., London: Day & Son, [1860]. (Archive MISC.159).
Papers of Ernest Walter Geils (1885-1971),
Indian Posts and Telegraphs Dept 1900-40, Chief Superintendent Central
Telegraph Office, Calcutta 1938-40, concerning his career.
1 volume; 1 mounted folio 1932 - 1948
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The Public and Judicial Department records, similar
in scope to those of the Home Department of the Government of India, are
essential to the study of the domestic affairs of British India. The central
core of material concerns constitutional, political and administrative
structures and reforms, the administration of justice (especially courts and
jails), and law and order (particularly the control of political opposition
groups regarded as seditious). In 1941 the department merged with the Political
(Internal) Department, concerned with Indian princely states, to form the new
Political Department for the internal affairs of India.
The East India Company routinely retained the
services of a solicitor in private practice from 1607, and of a standing
counsel from 1684 onwards. These arrangements continued until 1874 when a Legal
Adviser to the Secretary of State, combining both functions, was added to the
India Office establishment. Among other matters the Legal Adviser and his
predecessors handled the legal aspects of Company and India Office property and
financial business, and formulation of contracts for staff and equipment for
the Government of India, and the transmission of law cases from the Indian
courts on appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. A wide range
of types of document has survived from these processes.
Given by Sir Harold Shoobert
(Received 21 June 1968)
Papers relating to the claims of the Begam A. U. Wali-ud-Dowla
against the Nizam of Hyderabad.
Letter from Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru to W.V. Grigson
about the Begam Wali-ud-Dowla's Case. Allahabad 21 August, 1947.
Copy of his letter to the Begam Memorandum prepared
by Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru on the case.
Application to be made to R.M. the Nizam about the
case.
Opinion in re Begam A.U. Wali-ud-Dowla of Hyderabad
Deccan: in the matters of the claims of Mahboob Begam and Qadra Begam by Sir
Tej Bahadur Sapru, Allahabad, 21 August 1947. (Case formerly argued at Hyderabad
before the Royal Commission, July and August 1944). 9pp.
Letter from W.V. Grigson to the Begam Sahiba
Wali-ud-Dowla, 26 August 1947.
Note in re Begam Wali-ud-Dowla's case. A brief
sketch of the life and career of Nawab Wali-ud-Dowla, signed by Sir Tej Bahadur
Sapru, Allahabad 20 October 1944, 48pp.
List of papers in Re: Begam Wali-ud-Dowla's Case.
2 copies of letters from E.P. Caspersz to Mr.
Touche, M.P., 30 November 1946 and 7 October 1946.
Bundle of papers relating to the Schillergunge
Estate, including annual accounts from 1866 to1929.
{Memorandum, 19 February 1948 by Edward P. Caspersz,
Schillergunge P.O., Mathibaria, Bakarganj District, E. Bengal. Part 2 of 8
March 1948. Written to show why special consideration should be shown compared
with other landowners, in case of acquisition by Government, 6pp.}
Letters of John Younie (1893-1942), Indian
Civil Service, Bengal 1916-42, District and Sessions Judge 1925-42, comprising
originals, typescript transcripts, and an edited and abridged version compiled
by his wife Dr Dorothy Younie, describing his work and daily life in various
parts of Bengal; with an article by Dr Dorothy Younie on life in Chittagong.
23 items
1910 - 1966 View Contents
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`An account of his life', by Sir Alan
Gerald Russell Henderson (1886-1963), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1910-46;
District and Sessions Judge 1921-32; Secretary, Judicial Dept, Government of
Bengal 1932-33; Judge of the Calcutta High Court 1933-46.
1 portfolio 1886 - 1961
Sorabji Collection: correspondence, diaries
and papers of Cornelia Sorabji (1866-1954), Indian lawyer and social reformer,
Lady Assistant to the Court of Wards in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, and Assam
1904-23; also papers of other members of her family.
233 items
1882 - 1947 View Contents
List
Miscellaneous papers of Sir (Thomas) James
Young Roxburgh (1892-1974), Indian Civil Service 1915-52, Judge, High Court
Calcutta 1942-52, including newspaper cuttings, photographs and ephemera.
1 volume; 1 box 1906 - 1969
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Indian Police Collection: papers
illustrating the work and history of the Indian Police, mostly collected under
the auspices of the Indian Police Association to facilitate the writing of `To
Guard My People: the history of the Indian Police' by P J Griffiths (1971).
284 items
1765 - 1961 View Contents
List
`Just My Luck or Reminiscences': memoir,
dated 1979, by Philip Edmund Stanley Finney (b 1904) of his career in the Indian
Police, Bengal. Subsequently published as 'Just My Luck: Memoirs of a Police
Officer of the Raj' (Dhaka, 2000).
1 portfolio 1924 - 1947
Philip E.S. Finney, Indian Police Service.
Bengal, Burma: 1924 - 1947.
BOX I
Collection of photostat copies of entry into the
Police Service, Articles of Agreement, biography as in 'History of Services',
warrant to join army; Government Servants' Conduct Rules 1919. 11pp.
Barrackpore
1927 ? 30. Photostat copies of letters of merit, newspaper cuttings, letter of
congratulation and thanks from Sir John Simon acknowledging his work as D.C. of
Police, Calcutta. 28pp.
Buxa Duars Detention Camp 1930 ? 31. Correspondence
relating to office of Superintendant. 2pp.
Deoli Jail 1932 ? 34. Copies of letters and other
papers relating to office as Superintendant of the detention camp in Deoli.
46pp.
Papers concerning material for history of the Indian
Police by Sir Percival Griffiths under the title To guard my People published
in 1971.
Note giving his views, which were asked for by the
Governor of Bengal on the political impasse in January 1946. 8pp.
Paper concerning the Superior Civil Services Rules
1934, related to Finney. 6pp.
File marked 'Correspondence - Indian Coronation
Contingent 1937'. 66 Officers of the Indian Police attended the Coronation.
Correspondence between Finney, Sir Horace Williamson and Sir John Ewart on the
difficulties, complaints etc., encountered.. 51pp.
File marked 'Inspection and instruction remarks made
by P.E.S. Finney, Superintendent of Police, Rangpur on the Reserve Office on
the 27 August - 1 September 1936.' 64pp.
Papers concerned with Inspection remarks made by
Finney as Superintendent of Police, Rangpur in September 1936. 14pp. Also
papers for the office Order Book - 4pp. and Standing Order No.33 of 1936
concerning detenu letters. 3pp.
Copy of 'Notes for the Additional Superintendent
Headquarters, Mymensingh' March 1936. 18pp. Notes intended as guidance for his
predecessor outlining the policy adopted and the methods to translate it into
effect.
Folder issued by Governor of Bengal 'General Police
arrangements in connection with the visit of His Excellency the Governor of Bengal
to Rangpur' 31 October - 2 November 1936. 131pp.
Xerox copy. TS Memoir entitled Just my Luck, or
Reminiscences by P.E.S. Finney, late Indian Police Service. Illustrated by
photographs. 166pp.
Given by Mr Basil Labouchardičre. Indian Police
1936-47.
Roll of Indian Police officers, 1861-1947 - An
Indian Police Obituary. 9 ff. ISBN No. 0 9510582 0 7. Xerox copy of typescript.
Gives following details of 1711 officers of the
Indian Police (of rank of Assistant Superintendent and above):
Surname and initials of first names.
Honours and decorations held.
Province(s) in which served.
Years in which service began and ended.
Typescript note by Mr La Bouchardičre on 'The Indian
Police from 1861 to 1947'.
The account is in five sections as follows:
A brief history, including recruitment and training
of the service.
A Chronology of the main police events between 1861
and 1947.
Examples of the nature of the job:
Collating criminal intelligence.
Dealing with riots.
Political intelligence work.
Combating terrorism in Bengal in the 1930s.
Political events:
The Cripps Mission 1942.
The British Cabinet Mission 1946.
The Partition Plan 1947.
For Gallantry.
12pp.
(D. MacPherson)
TS account of the investigation 1935-42, into an
illicit distillery at Gariahat, Calcutta, the arrest and conviction of those
involved, the extradition of one of the accused from England in 1941, and his
second trial and conviction. 5 pp.
Three TS articles by MacPherson:
'The history of Chandernagore.' 9 pp.
'Famine in 1943.' 4 pp.
'Record of a case against Scheduled Castes in 1924.'
4 pp.
Given by Eric Stracey, (Indian police)
Restricted to the year 2010
TS Memoir: 'Odd Man in': (My years in the Indian
Police 1943-1979) By Eric Stracey.
Tape recording of interview, given 1983, by
Coralie May Taylor (b 1898), on her life in India as the wife of Stanley
Grisewood Taylor (1893-1980), Indian Police, Bengal 1913-47, on her husband's
career, and on her service during the Second World War in the Women's Auxiliary
Corps (India).
1 cassette 1919 - 1947
(Mr. and Mrs. S.G. Taylor)
'49th Bengal Regiment.' TS 6 pp.
'Bengal: 1942 to the takeover in 1947', by S.G. Taylor,
Inspector-General Police, Bengal. Written January 1969. TS 20 pp. (Given by
Lady Tegart.)
'The terrorist movement in Bengal, 1930-34.' Written
March 1969. TS 16 pp.
'Congress cum terrorist activities in Bengal in
Midnapur District in 1930-31', written by F.W. Kidd, C.I.E., Indian Police
(Retired). March 1969. TS 2 pp.
'Communal tension in Bengal.' TS 5 pp.
'Murder in East Bengal.' TS 2 pp.
'Training of the police in Bengal', written for Sir
Percival Griffiths' book on the Indian police requested by Sir Percival in 1968
or 1969. TS 10 pp.
Xerox copy of newspaper cuttings about use of
fingerprint identification in Bengal.
Microfilm Box 4 No. 24B
Alpachand shoot 1929; shooting trip to the Dooars
February 1929; Gaumara, March 1929.
TS copies of letters from Mrs. Taylor in Mymensingh
and Baghmara 1932-34, home to England to her family. They are entirely personal
and present a picture of family and social life. There is very little about
India itself. Amongst the letters was a TS copy of a paper addressed to
Government on measures to prevent terrorist outrages and movements. The
measures are very extreme, and the outcome of fear. It is not signed, and no
date.
See also BELL PAPERS - File 3
Restricted
Given by Lady Tegart
BOX I
File 1:
Press cuttings on the Chowringhee murder case. (E.
Day, shot by Gopi Nath Shah in mistake for Sir Charles Tegart, on 12 January
1924):
Cuttings from The Statesman; Forward; The
Englishman; The Servant; The Telegraph; The Bengali; Amrita Bazar Patrika;
Dainik Basumati; Indian Daily News; Capital; The Mussalman; The Calcutta
Homefinder; Weekly Guardian; The DarjeeZing Times.
Two photographs of Gopi Nath Shah.
Letters of congratulation to Sir Charles Tegart on
his escape from Prafulla Kumar Biswas; S.K. Sen; H. Hobbs; A.K. Fuzlul Huq; E.
O'Brien; Hiralal Maj dar; M. Harley; Prem Nath.
Report of newspapers and periodicals in Bengal for
week ending Saturday 2 February 1924. pp. 76-95.
Cuttings of Bruce case.
File 2 and 2a:
Press cuttings on Dalhousie Square case. (Attempted
assassination of Sir Charles Tegart on 25 August 1930 by Dr. Narain Roy, Dr.
Bhupal Bose, and eight others):
Cuttings from The Times; Liberty; Amrita Bazar
Patrika; The Statesman; Moning. Post; India; Planters Journal and
Agriculturist; The Indian Municipality; The D. I. B. Weekly; Provincial
Bulletin (Delhi); The Bangalee; The Basumati; Melbourne Herald; Evening News;
Evening Standard; Communist Press; Liberty; Advance.
File 3:
Envelope with miscellaneous press cuttings: murder
of Lt. Col. N.S. Simpson, shot by Benoy Krishna Bose; photograph of Benoy
Kirshna Bose; two cuttings on Sir Charles Tegart; TS expenses account 19-30
October 1926.
BOX II
File 4:
The public resolutions passed after the bomb attempt
on Sir Charles Tegart 1930 .
File 5:
Copy of speech by Sir Charles Tegart to the Royal
Empire Society on 'Terrorism in India', 1 November 1932.
Newspaper cuttings referring to this speech from The
Englishman; Times Educational Supplement; Liberty; Amrita Bazar Patrika; The
Statesman; The Tribune.
File 6:
Miscellaneous papers to do with the attempted
assassination of Sir Charles Tegart 1930. (Judgements, statements etc.)
File 7:
Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, many about Bakr-Id
disturbances, Lord Lytton, the Bengal disturbances, and Sir Charles Tegart's
efficiency in the Police Department; from New Statesman; The Bengalee; The
Basumati; The Moslem Chronicle; The Englishman; Forward; Capital; Amrita Bazar
Patrika; The Times; The Statesmen; The New Empire; The Daily Mail; Hansard on
the Bengal Ordinance; The Commercial Gazette.
Copy of extract from a letter from His Highness the
Maharaja of Nepal, to His Excellency the Governor of Bengal, 16 February 1928.
File 8:
Copies of letters (secret) from C.W. Gwynne,
Officiating Joint Secretary to the Government of India to the Chief Secretary
to the Government of Bengal, September 1923, regarding revolutionary activity
in Bengal. (Pre-Bengal Ordinances.)
MS report on Sakyendra Nath Guha 14 February 1925
(revolutionary activities.)
Secret paper on meeting between Mahatma Gandhi and
Sir Charles Tegart on 24 June 1925 about release of prisoners in Bengal. (2
copies) TS 10 pp.
Typed note on communal tension and the terrorist
movement, the Swaraj Party and the reforms in India by Sir Charles Tegart, in
answer to a request from J.G. - Forward at the India Office. 18 May 1926. 7 pp.
Typed note on policy towards detainees of terrorist
organizations in Bengal - n.d. but after March 1927. 10 pp.
File 9:
Judgment: Emperor v. Dr. Narain Roy and others.
Confidential. Printed. Signed by H.C. Stork, Ashutosh Ghosh, Adilizzaman Khan.
27 November 1930. 41 pp.
File 10:
'Revolutionaries of Bengal: their methods and
ideals.' Published by Hemantakumar Sarkar, The Indian Book Club, Calcutta,
1923.
BOX III
File 11:
Secret notes on outrages compiled in 1917 by J.C.
Nixon, I.C.S. Vols. I-VI, 1906-17. (In Vol. VI two TS sheets with notes of
further cases relating to a date subsequent to 9 October 1918.)
BOX IV
File 11.
Memorandum by the Advisory Committee, Bengal, 1918.
Sir N.G. Chandavarkar and Justice C.P. Beachcroft. The cases of Detenus under
the Defence of India Act and Regulation III of 1918. Calcutta 1918. Note on
cover presumably by Sir Charles Tegart - 'Not published'.
File 13.
Report to Government of India from Local Government,
on Congress Activities, subsequent to the Irwin-Gandhi agreement; sent by C.A.
Turnidge to Sir Charles Tegart. 51 pp.
Files 14-16:
Annual reports of the police administration of 'the
town of Calcutta and its suburbs by C.A. Tegart, for the years 1923, 1928,
1929.
Sheet of printed information on the general
situation (on terrorist activities) by C.E.S. Fairweather. Calcutta, 15 October
1936. Part of a longer report - pp. 543-546.
Eighty photographs connected with the assassinations
and terrorist activities in which Sir Charles Tegart was involved; these are
police photographs of victims, murderers, scenes of murder etc.
Programme of an afternoon party to meet Sir Charles
Tegart, 21 February 1926.
Newspaper cutting from The Basumati, 14 June 1927,
entitled 'Riot scare in Calcutta.'
Book presented:
Tegart, Kathleen. 'Charles Tegart of the Indian
Police.' 1946-7. TS. 340 pp.
(W. McC. Sharpe)
Microfilm No. 10
Report of the Dacca Riots Enquiry Committee.
Alipore, Bengal, Bengal Government Press, 1942. 60 pp. and six appendices of 25
pp. In three parts: Dacca city; rural areas; recommendations. Appendix E
contains five photographs of the damage; appendix F contains map of the town.
Report of the trial and judgement of Surja Sen,
alias Master de Tarakeswar Dastidar and Kalpana Datta under the Bengal Criminal
Act etc. at Darjeeling 7 June 1933. Includes exhibits produced at the trial,
including statements made to the Tribunal and propaganda and instructions made
by the Indian Republic Army, and copies of documents found and used in
evidence. W. McC. Sharpe, member of the special Tribunal. TS. 147 pp, plus 24
pp. of documents.
(H. Quinton)
TS note on terrorism in Bengal - a memory, during
the fifty years prior to Independence. 4 pp. n.d. In particular, personal
reminiscences of Alipore.
'Personal
reminiscences of the Indian mutiny', by Margaret Spencer. Booklet, n.d.
This consists of 40 cassettes of Interviews with
leaders of the Communist, Peasant and Labour Movements of Bangladesh and India.
The details are:
Comrade Amal Sen (83), leader of the 'Tebhaga'
peasant movement in Bengal, led by the Communist Party. Interviewed by Shahriar
Kabir in Dhaka on 16.5.97-23.5.97. Bengali. (GC8/166-172)
Writer Mohashweta Devi, leader of the 'Adivasi'on
bonded labour and tribal movements. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta,
on 16.12.96. Bengali. (GC8/164)
Comrade Ila Mitra, leader of the Tebhaga and Nachol
peasant
uprisings, ex-MLA, leader of CPI. Interviewed by
Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta, on 18.12.96. Bengali. (GC8/162-163)
Comrade Ranesh Das Gupta (87), writer, journalist,
former organizer of a pro-communist cultural movement of Bangladesh.
Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta, on 15.7.97-29.7.97. Bengali.
(GC8/209-216)
Comrade Robi Niogi (89), leader of Tebhaga and the
CPB. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Sherpur, Bangladesh, on 4.5.97. Bengali.
(GC8/175-176)
Comrade Mohadev Sanyal on labour and peasant
movements in the 40s and 50s. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Mymensingh,
Bangladesh, on 7.5.97. Bengali. (GC8/173-174)
Justice Debesh Bhattacharya (84) on communal
problems, politics and society of Bengal. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in
Dhaka, on 21.4.97. Bengali. (GC8/195)
Comrade Rejia Khatoon, ex-Congress and CPB leader on
the women's movement. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Mymensingh, Bangladesh,
on 6.5.97. Bengali.
Comrade Kanak Mukherjee, leader of CPI (M), wife of
late communist leader Saroj Mukerjee. . Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in
Calcutta, on 11.4.97. Bengali. (GC8/193)
Congress leader Monoranjan Dhar (96) on politics and
society of Bengal and Bangladesh, Liberation War. Interviewed by Shahriar
Kabir, in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, on 5.5.97. Bengali. (GC8/194)
Comrade Abani Lahiri (87) of the CPI, on the Tebhaga
peasant uprising. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta, on 2.2.99.
Bengali. (GC8/221-222)
Comrade Ramen Sen (90) ex MP, first C.C. member of
the CPI, during the formation. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta, on
29.10.98. Bengali. (GC8/217-218)
Prof.
Samar Guha (80), ex MP and General Secretary of the Forward Block and Proja
Socialist Party. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta, on 9.5.98.
Bengali. (GC8/219- 220)
Niharenda Dutta Majumdar (93) of the Indian National
Congress and Indian Labour Party, on the Anti-British Freedom Struggle.
Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta, on 27.1.98. Bengali. (GC8/227-228)
Comrade Pannalal Das Gupta (96) of the RCPI, on the Anti-British
Freedom Struggle and the Communist Movement of India. Interviewed by Shahriar
Kabir, in Shantiniketon, West Bengal, on 17.1.98. Bengali. (GC8/225-226)
Comrade Sharadindu Dastidar, former CPI leader,
Revolutionary Communist League, on the Communist Movement of India and
Bangladesh. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Chittagong, Bangladesh, on
8.7.99. Bengali. (GC8/ 223-224)
Urdu poet Kaifi Ajmi on the pro-communist cultural movement
(IPTA) of Bangladesh and India and the Bangladesh Liberation War, and Shawkat
Kaifi, actress, former IPTA activist, and wife of Kaifi. Interviewed by
Shahriar Kabir, in Mumbay, India, on 16.1.97. Urdu. (GC8/191)
On Santhal Pot and songs on Netajee Subhas Bose,
leader of the Freedom Struggle of India. Recorded by Shahriar Kabir in Barasat,
West Bengal at a handicraft fair on 29.1.00
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This
collection of administrative files of the India Office Medical Board awaits detailed
examination
(Patrick Henry Cummins, I.M.S.)
Given by Mrs. C.E. Cummins
N.W.F.P., Assam, Burma, Bengal: 1925-1945
Summary of Service of and Confidential Reports on
Patrick Henry Cummins, I.M.S. (3 sheets).
Map of Assam.
Government Officers' Diary for 1942 when in No. 1
Field Ambulance Unit in Burma.
Diary for 1943-44 Burma.
Notebook of jottings: medical notes, etc.
10 Large Photographs:
1927, Poona; I.M.S. Officers on training course,
P.H. Cummins and others.
1929, Cannanore; 12th Malabar Battalion Madras
Pioneers; Gopal & Co.
1930, G.M.H. Landikotal, Khyber Pass; hockey team;
S.M. Shaw.
1930/31, Razmak, barracks with hills in, background.
1934, Rawalpindi; No.l Indian Hospital Corps Hockey
team; M.R. Sharma.
1934, Rawalpindi; Staff of I.M.H. M. T.
1935, Gauhati, Assam; Medical and Jail staff;
Ghoshal Brothers.
1936, Imphal; Medical Staff; J. Purkayastha.
1943, Hoshiapur, Punjab; No.l Burma Field Ambulance
Unit.
1945, Dacca, Bengal, Nursing Training Wing, 77, Indian
General Hospital; O.C. Lt. Col. P.H. Cummins.
`Reminiscences of an Indian Medical Service
Officer', dated Jan 1979, by Maj Edward John Somerset (b 1907), describing his
career in the Indian Medical Service 1938-47, and his life in India as a
private practitioner 1947-61.
309 folios 1938 - 1961
Papers of Major Edward John Somerset, M.B. (Lond.),
M.S. (Opth.), D.O.M.S. (Eng.), M.R.C.S. Born 12 November 1907, joined Indian
Medical Service 1 November 1938. Posted Quetta 1939 to general medical work in
Government Hospital. Transferred 1 January 1943 to Shillong as Eye Specialist,
General Hospital. Transferred September 1943, Calcutta as Eye Specialist, 47
British General Hospital. Made Professor of Opthalmology at Medical College,
Calcutta 18 May 1944. After Independence until 1961, when he left India, in
private opthalmic practice in Calcutta.
Given by Major Somerset.
BOX I
14 Indian Survey Ordnance Maps of the Nepal, Sikkim
and Tibet border areas.
Sheet No. 78A Darjeeling 1930.
Sheet No. 78A/SW and 72M/SE 1942.
Sheet No. 78A/NW and 77D/SW 1930.
Sheet No. 78A/NE and 77D/SE 1930.
Sheet No. 78B/NE 1942.
Sheet No. 78B/NW 1942.
Sheet No. 77D 1946.
Sheet No. 78E 1942.
Sheet No. 78E 1925.
Road Map of India 1942.
O.S. Map of Baluchistan No. 34 N/3 1925.
4 inch Shillong Guide Map - third edition 1942.
Shillong and surrounding country 1930.
Sheet No. 78A Darjeeling 1930.
BOX II
TS Memoir: Reminiscences of an Indian Medical
Service Officer from 1939 to 1961. By E.J. Somerset, Major I.M.S. (retd.)
N.W.F.P., Shillong, Calcutta. 309 ff. A discursive and frank account of
colleagues, friends, household management, army social life in Quetta and
Shillong and civilian social life in Calcutta, recreations, which include treks
to Sikkim and Tibet. While in Quetta observed Sir Henry Holland's work. Many
pages describe his own work. A comprehensive memoir showing his attitudes to
British and Indians.
Diaries, miscellaneous papers, and
memorabilia of Lt-Col (George Norman) Patrick Hodder (b 1903); Assistant, James
Finlay & Co. Ltd, Assam 1923-25; Manager, Midnapore Zamindari Co. Ltd,
Bengal 1925-37; Manager, Anderson Wright & Co. Ltd; wartime service in
Supply Dept, GHQ, India; later Chief Executive, East India Clinic and European
Hospitals Association, Calcutta.
110 items
1915 - 1987 View Contents
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Tape recording of interview, given 1991, by
(John) Richard Charters Symonds (b 1918), Friends Ambulance Unit, Bengal
1942-44; Deputy Director, Relief and Rehabilitation, Bengal 1944-45; Friends
Service Unit, Punjab and Kashmir 1947-48; U.N. Commission in Kashmir 1948-49.
6 cassettes 1942 - 1949
Given by J. Mottram
Note on the Bengal famine of November 1943 made
after serving with the 4th Battalion of the 4th Bombay Grenediers, which tried
to relieve the suffering.
Pinnell Collection: papers of Leonard
George Pinnell (1896-1979), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1920-47, Director of
Civil Supplies, Bengal 1942-43; co-ordinator of Bengal Government's evidence to
Famine Enquiry Commission 1943-44, Principal of of training course for military
officers returning to civil administration 1944-45; Chairman, Bengal
Development Board 1946-47; also printed speeches by Governors of Bengal
1936-46.
39 items
1932 - 1948 View Contents List
Tape recording of interview, given 1991, by
(John) Richard Charters Symonds (b 1918), Friends Ambulance Unit, Bengal
1942-44; Deputy Director, Relief and Rehabilitation, Bengal 1944-45; Friends
Service Unit, Punjab and Kashmir 1947-48; U.N. Commission in Kashmir 1948-49.
6 cassettes 1942 - 1949
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AVA, Sister Agnes (Bengal, 1935-43)
ESDAILE, Mrs. Dorothy (Punjab, 1921-25)
TEAL, Miss Alice Dorothea (Madras, 1921-47)
Written answers to questionnaire on Missions and
Missionaries in India during the British period and immediately after Independence.
Subjects covered are voyage out; training and early
years, contacts with Indians, and political contacts; attitude towards
indigenous religions.
(The Rev. David A. Patterson)
Given by Mr. Phillip Nash 1971
Burma; India
1932-1943
BOX I
269 letters written by the Rev. David Patterson to
his mother 1932-1941 from Burma and wartime letters 1942-1943 from India.
In 1932 he went out as a layman to teach in the
Diocesan Boys' School Rangoon, until 1935. Returned to England in 1936 to be
ordained and went back to Burma in 1938 to teach in St. John's College,
Rangoon, the Mission of the Resurrection, Syriam, and as headmaster of All
Saints S.P.G. Boys' High School and Mission, Schwebo, February 1941.
The letters describe his life as a missionary
teacher and then as a priest in Burma, and outside activities: relationships
between Burmans, Anglo-Indians and Europeans. In 1942 he became Chaplain to the
Forces in Burma. He was with General Alexander in the retreat from Rangoon to
Assam in May 1942. In 1943 he was in India as an army chaplain. 580pp.
BOX II
17 letters undated from. St. John's College,
Rangoon, probably 1939-40. 38pp.
14 miscellaneous undated letters from ships etc.
Some loose pages from other letters. 37pp.
Miscellaneous printed papers, programmes etc. from
Burma, undated.
Letter from Cyril Patterson (David Patterson's
Brother) in Onitsha to his mother, 20 July 1935.
Photographs in envelopes of: voyages - Madras and
Calcutta; snake charmers; Mandalay and Pagan; Shan States and Maymyo; Rangoon;
Burmese scenes; Shan States Mission and school scenes. These are named and
explained on the reverse, not all are dated.
Griffiths, Percival J. The British in India. London,
1946.
Tyson, Geoffrey. Forgotten frontier. Calcutta, 1945.
(Canon R. Pelly)
BOX I
Bishops College, Calcutta, The Chronicle. 1922-58
(incomplete); 1960, 1965. (Supplements for 1950, 1952, 1958.)
St. Paul's, Darjeeling. School Chronicle. 1947-66
(incomplete).
BOX II
Parish magazine of the Old Mission Church, Calcutta,
January-December 1927-28.
'A coin of Indian metal: the life of Wing-Commander K.K.
Majumdar, D.F.C. and Bar', by K.N. Dutt. Madras, Bangalore. The Christian
Literature Society for India, 1949.
Storrs Fox Collection: papers of Rev Edwin
Aubrey Storrs Fox (1888-1975), Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment from 1916,
including letters home and over 600 sermons, many in both early and rewritten
form.
108 items
1911 - 1944 View Contents
List
Lakher Pioneer Mission: papers relating to
its work among the Lakher (Mara) people of the South Lushai hills, its founder
Reginald Lorrain (1880-1944), and members of his family; including letters from
his daughter Louise Marguerite Tlosai (1909-68) and her husband Albert Bruce
Lorrain-Foxall (d 1977), the latter's diaries, and translations of the bible
and other works into the Mara language by Lorrain and Lorrain-Foxall.
248 files
1905 - 1978 View Contents
List
Datta Collection: papers of Surendra Kumar
Datta (1878-1942), lecturer in history and biology 1909-14, and Principal
1932-42, Forman Christian College; YMCA national secretary for India, Burma and
Ceylon 1919-27 and active in international YMCA thereafter; representative of
Indian Christians in Indian Legislative Assembly 1924-26 and at Round Table
Conference 1931; also papers of other members of his family.
93 items
1884 - 1953 View Contents
List
Tape recording of interview, given 1990, by
Winifred Edith Wenger (b 1906), wife of Rev Edward Leslie Wenger, describing
her education, work and experiences as a Baptist missionary mainly teaching in
Calcutta and Serampore, before and after marriage (1934).
1 cassette 1934 - 1965
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Papers of John Alexander Chapman (Librarian of the
Imperial Library Calcutta 1911-1930). (Recatalogued on accession of new
material given by Mrs. M. Craig, the daughter of J. A. Chapman).
Given by G.D.M. Bullard, and Mrs. M. Craig.
India general:
Box I
Three TS bound volumes of a journal/log
book/miscellany, typed on the back of the galley proofs of Denison Ross's Both
Ends of the Candle which includes memoirs of India, and other literary figures
of the era (1930s) in India. No date. (See Box VI).
Two volumes bound TS of letters to Dora Ross,
1911-39.
Denison and Dora Ross (parts of unfinished books) TS
bound, no date, but post 1943.
Nobody's letters to F.G.E. and M.G.N. (Chapman's
sisters) TS, bound, 1936-43. Three volumes.
Box II
Ten volumes of quotations, comments., etc. indexed
in pencil at the end of each volume, but the index is not alphabetical.
Miscellaneous offprints, etc.
The Asiatic Review, July 1949: Literary India II The
religious poetry of India by Dr. Ranjee G. Shahani.
Three letters from E.H.W. Meyerstein to J. A.
Chapman, 1940.
14 fascicles of TS - literary journal, and diary of
bird-watching.
Box III
The Epic of Islam:
Book One: Arabia and Mecca. Privately printed 1950.
(A second copy)
Book Two: Judaism and Islam. Privately printed 1950.
(Preface and poem).
Book Three: Muhammed in Mecca, TS 1953
Book Four: Muhammed in Medina (bound together with
Book Three)
Book Five: Hazrat 'Ali. TS 25pp.
Book Six: Karbala. Privately printed 1950.
The Last Book: TS Bound, 107pp, 1950.
Poems, by J.A.C. Calcutta, 1905. Denison Ross's
copy.
TS Poems, 34pp.
4 TS articles and poems, and 1 MS trans.
Box IV
Printed Books by J. A. Chapman (see list of books)
Box V
War, Poems, by J. A. Chapman. Savile Press 1951.
War, TS proof of 21.
War, TS proof of 21 with additional material mostly
from Dante.
TS Notebooks and books:
Dante and Milton.
Poems n.d.
Hopkins, a commentary, 1951.
Persephone, 1953 (a poem).
Reading, 1956.
Box VI
29 and 30. A French Commonplace Book I and II.
a. Both Ends of the Candle, the autobiography of Sir
E. Denison Ross, with a foreword by Lawrence Binyon. London, Faber & Faber,
1943.
b. TS. A critical commentary on Denison Ross's
autobiography (31a) by J. A. Chapman. 137pp.
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Persian MSS in
the Oriental Public Library at Bankipore (Volume II) by Manlavi Abdul Muqtadir
Khan Bahadur. Patna, Government Printing, Bihar and Orissa, 1933.
Box VII
MS notebook of quotations entitled This English
Language, by J. A. Chapman.
34 and 35. Two MS notebooks entitled 'D's diary
U.S.A.' (Diary of visit to U.S.A. by Dora Ross). n.d.
TS parody on the Athanasian Creed entitled 'The
Triarchic Faith', about the Government of India. 3pp.
In his own country: an Anglo-Indian play in one act,
by E. A. Horne, n.d.
The political system of British India with special
reference to the recent constitutional changes by E. A. Horne (Indian
Educational Service), Oxford 1922.
TS Article on Sayyid Abu Muhammad. 18pp, n.d.
TS Persian and Indian poems by J. A. Chapman, 1934
and 1937.
Christus Natus Est, published by author J. A.
Chapman at the Imperial Library, Metcalfe Hall, Calcutta, 1923.
a & b. Religious Lyrics of Bengal by John
Alexander Chapman. The Book Co., College Square, Calcutta, 1926 (2 copies).
Address by Dr. W. A. Jenkins, Vice-Chancellor, at
the Annual Degree Convocation of the University of Dacca, 4 December 1955.
15pp.
Address by Dr. W. A. Jenkins, Vice-Chancellor,
University of Dacca ... at the 8th Pakistan Science Congress, 16 January 1956.
10pp.
Poems, by Henry Martin, Peshawar, 1929.
Poems, by Henry Martin, Peshawar, 1930.
Box VIII
File marked: 'Eastern Poetry', containing 43
articles, reviews, letters, etc. ranging from 'The cultural root of the
revolutionary and terrorist movement in India', to 'Hafiz, and Malherbe', 'The
Poetic East', 'Mahatma Gandhi' and 'The Literary Approach to India' and 'Modern
Indian Poetry'. 343pp.
File marked: 'Letters from Nabboo' (being the
Mohommad Amir Haider Khan, brother of the Raja of Mahmudabad) from Lucknow and
London. Also contains J. A. Chapman's further notes on Eastern poetry and
Islam, and 'Naboo's' comments. 568pp.
File marked: 'Gleanings Dora' but containing copies
of obituary notices, some written by J. A. Chapman for Professor V. Barthold;
Henry Beveridge; Professor E. G. Browne; M. Henri Cordier; Lord Curzon; Dr. T.
W. Rhys Davids; Robert Scott Greenshields; de Stael Holstein; D. S.
Margoliouth; F.W.K. Muller; Professor Meillet; Dr. F. Rosen; M. Emile Senart:
Guy Le Strange.
Microfilm
(Box 4, No.29)
TS. 'A poet in India'
This is in the nature of a commonplace book,
compiled while Librarian at Imperial Library in Calcutta. Consists of
quotations of and meditations and thoughts on Indian and English poetry and
prose, and Christianity and Hinduism.
Notes on: his book Christus Natus Est - a reply to
Lady Mayo's book - comments. A number of explanations of Hindu and Buddhist
mystical and philosophical terms.
The Rajakumar Sahib of Mahmudabad. The effect of
Indian literature on Europe and America. The wrong things have been translated.
Comments on what has been translated and the translators. Charles Russell;
Edward Fitzgerald; Cowell; K. K. Chatterji; Dr. Gilbert Carter. Comments on
translation of poetry, particularly Eastern poetry, and its reception in the
West. Comments on the Princes. Sayyid Abu Muhammad. Denison Ross. Lord Hailey
and the vernacular literature of India. Comments on the makers of Pakistan.
Further history of his attempt to interest England in the vernacular literatures
of India. The British Council in India. Notes on: Persian poetry; B. S. Mitter;
Educational Service; Sunni Muslims. Attitude towards British rule in India -
his own and by Indians; race-prejudice; the Copyright Act.
Ends abruptly.
Given by Commander L. Peppé
'The Piprawah Stupa on the Birdpore Estate
containing the relics of Buddha', by J.H.H. Peppé. Privately printed pamphlet published
by J.H.H. Peppé, Birdpore Estate, Basti, U.P., and printed at Utpal Press,
Calcutta, 9, n.d. 12 pp.
Newspaper cutting from the Pioneer of 18 August 1956
on 'The annihilation of Lord Buddha's family', by Paripurnanand Verma; this
also refers to the Piprawah Stupa and its contents.
Xerox copy of extract from the Journal of the Royal
Asiatic Society, 1898 - 'The Piprawah Stupa, containing relics of Buddha', by
William Claxton Peppy Esq. Communicated, with a note, by Vincent A. Smith,
I.C.S., M.R.A.S. with two plates. 15 pp.
Typescript copy of the account of the activities of
Lt. Col. W.T.H. Peppéís grandfather during the Indian mutiny. The account was
written by his daughter who later became Mrs. de Hochepied Larpent; and also
includes the origin of the Birdpur Estate in the Basti District of the U.P.
(The original is in the possession of Lt. Col. Peppé.)
Letters on Indian art from Laurence Binyon
(1860-1943), art historian, members of the Tagore family, and others, to Sir
William Rothenstein (1872-1945), Professor of Civic Art, Sheffield 1917-26,
Principal, Royal College of Art 1920-45.
158 folios 1910 - 1944 View Contents List
Rulebooks, dated 1883-1933, of the Calcutta
Tent Club, with copy of dinner menu; also rules, a brief history, lists of
members, and a club button, dated 1888-1967, of the Unceremonials Club,
Calcutta.
1 folder
1883 - 1967
Records of the Calcutta Tent Club formed to
facilitate meets for pigsticking, including club rules, membership lists,
accounts, correspondence, hunting journals and notes, articles on pigsticking
copied from early magazines, and plans of an elephant's howdah.
45 items
1862 - 1954 View Contents
List
Notes on the memorial monuments, cemetery
and Charnock Mausoleum of St John's Church (Old Cathedral), Calcutta, by
Phillip C Longley; list of monuments in St Paul's Church, Dibrugarh, Assam;
note on St Saviour's Church, Mount Abu, and its memorials by Charles Cockaine.
4 items
1951 - 1954
Bake Collection: papers, correspondence and
photographs of Arnold Adriaan Bake (b 1899), Reader in Sanskrit, University of
London 1949-63, and of his wife Cornelia Bake, including miscellaneous material
relating to their visits to India, and memorabilia of Rabindranath Tagore.
335 items
1910 - 1979 View Contents
List
Grierson Collection: copies of articles
(some unpublished) and other scholarly papers and correspondence of Sir George
Abraham Grierson (1851-1941), Indian Civil Service 1873-1903, Superintendent of
the Linguistic Survey of India 1898-1902; oriental scholar.
340 items
1885 - 1940 View Contents
List
Cotton Collection (1): papers of Sir
(Harry) Evan Auguste Cotton (1868-1939), Calcutta barrister, President, Bengal
Legislative Council 1922-25, comprising notes and draft articles on Indian
history and art.
62 items
1907 - 1939 View Contents List
Notes and typed drafts for an unpublished
history of British rule in India by Lindsay Millais Jopling (1875-1967), Indian
Civil Service, United Provinces 1899-1925.
25 files
1875 - 1967
Royal Society for India, Pakistan and
Ceylon: papers of the National Indian Association, the East India Association,
and the India Society, which united in 1966 to form the Royal Society for
India, Pakistan and Ceylon.
232 items
1865 - 1984 View Contents
List
Papers of the India, Pakistan and Burma
Association, a specialised trade association providing information to its
members on commercial and political conditions in India, Pakistan and Burma.
[Now known as the British and South Asian Trade Association (BASATA)].
1218 items 1941 - 1972 View Contents List
Archer Collection: papers of Dr William
George Archer (1907-79), Indian Civil Service, Bihar 1931-46; served in Naga
Hills, Assam 1946-48; Keeper, Indian Section, Victoria and Albert Museum 1949-
59; and of his wife Dr Mildred Agnes Archer (b 1911), Curator, Prints and
Drawings Section, India Office Library 1954-80; reflecting their careers and
interest in Indian art and culture.
490 items
1929 - 1986 View Contents
List
Papers of Francis Watson (1907-87), Art
Adviser to Raja of Aundh 1938; Director, Counter-Propaganda, Government of
India 1940; Director, Research and Reference, Information Dept, Government of
India 1945-46; including correspondence with his parents commenting on life in
India, radio scripts, essays and photographs; also letters and papers of and
relating to Apasaheb Balasaheb Pant (b 1912), Indian diplomat from 1948.
17 items
1938 - 1982 View Contents
List
Cotton Collection (3): papers of Sir
(Harry) Evan Auguste Cotton (1868-1939), Calcutta barrister, President, Bengal
Legislative Council 1922-25, including material relating to his book `Calcutta
Old and New', paintings in Viceregal Residences, the Victoria Memorial Hall,
and the India Defence League; also family correspondence and photographs.
36 items
1877 - 1942 View Contents
List
Library Collection: records of the Library
of the East India Company (1801-58) and its successor the India Office Library.
456 items
1801 - 1994 View Contents
List
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Includes correspondence files and research data of
Sir George Grierson, Superintendent of the Linguistic Survey from 1898 to1902.
Papers of Dr John Bicknell Auden (b 1903),
Geological Survey of India 1926-54, Deputy Director Geological Survey of India
1952-54, comprising letters, technical reports, pamphlets and newspaper
cuttings.
21 items
1931 - 1956 View Contents
List
Grierson Collection: copies of articles
(some unpublished) and other scholarly papers and correspondence of Sir George
Abraham Grierson (1851-1941), Indian Civil Service 1873-1903, Superintendent of
the Linguistic Survey of India 1898-1902; oriental scholar.
340 items
1885 - 1940 View Contents
List
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Church records have been microfilmed by the LDS
The LDS have microfilmed records of civil
registration of births, marriages, deaths for French India. French Civil
Registration records contain a great deal of
information.
Returns
regarding changes in family status of their parishioners transmitted by
chaplains and ministers to the Government of India. The records are relating
mainly to European and Eurasian (Anglo-Indian) Christians.
The record can be
accessed at the “Oriental and India Office Collections at the British
Library”
(for details see section “Libraries &
Collections” on page “Related Organisations & Institutions”.)
as well as http://www.bl.uk/collections/oiocfamilyhistory/familyeccles.html
Returns regarding changes in family status of their
parishioners transmitted by chaplains and ministers to the Government of India.
The records are relating mainly to European and Eurasian (Anglo-Indian)
Christians.
The record can be
accessed at the “Oriental and India Office Collections at the British
Library”
(for details see section “Libraries &
Collections” on page “Related Organisations & Institutions”.)
as well as http://www.bl.uk/collections/oiocfamilyhistory/familyeccles.html
Returns regarding changes in family status of their
parishioners transmitted by chaplains and ministers to the Government of India.
The records are relating mainly to European and Eurasian (Anglo-Indian)
Christians.
The record can be
accessed at the “Oriental and India Office Collections at the British
Library”
(for details see section “Libraries &
Collections” on page “Related Organisations & Institutions”.)
as well as http://www.bl.uk/collections/oiocfamilyhistory/familyeccles.html
At
first this applied only to members of the Uncovenanted Service but later
extended to cover most other Government officers and European pensioners.
Information
generally recorded includes date and place of death, age, place of birth and
details of surviving relatives...".
A collection received from the British High
Commission in New Delhi in 1972 and 1973, concerning the maintenance of
cemeteries in India.
Various series and compilations of a biographical
nature, which do not fall into the main archive classes, are brought together
here: bonds, agreements and warrants for civil servants and other residents in
India; records relating to Europeans in India; and "personal records"
compilations made at East India House. A guide to biographical records
throughout the India Office Records has been published: I.A. Baxter, India
Office Library and Records: A Brief Guide to Biographical Sources (London,
1979; second edition, 1990).
(Major General W.E.V. Abraham)
Microfilm Box 6 No. 43
Details of a tour made by Major General Abraham in
Burma in March 1942 when he accompanied General Alexander to Rangoon as Liaison
Officer.
Various papers connected with the defence of Burma
during the 1939-45 war.
Budget papers (India) 1943-44.
Papers on India during the 1939-45 war.
AVA, Sister Agnes (Bengal, 1935-43)
ESDAILE, Mrs. Dorothy (Punjab, 1921-25)
TEAL, Miss Alice Dorothea (Madras, 1921-47)
Written answers to questionnaire on Missions and
Missionaries in India during the British period and immediately after
Independence.
Subjects covered are voyage out; training and early
years, contacts with Indians, and political contacts; attitude towards
indigenous religions.
Archer Collection: papers of Dr William
George Archer (1907-79), Indian Civil Service, Bihar 1931-46; served in Naga
Hills, Assam 1946-48; Keeper, Indian Section, Victoria and Albert Museum 1949-
59; and of his wife Dr Mildred Agnes Archer (b 1911), Curator, Prints and
Drawings Section, India Office Library 1954-80; reflecting their careers and
interest in Indian art and culture.
490 items
1929 - 1986 View Contents
List
Memoir, dated 1987, by Capt Michael Argles
(b 1922), Indian Army 1941-46, describing his training and service with the
Royal Indian Army Service Corps including postings to Mhow, Poona, Ranchi,
Nanjangud in Mysore, Trichinopoly and Calcutta.
6 folios
1941 - 1946
Papers of Dr John Bicknell Auden (b 1903),
Geological Survey of India 1926-54, Deputy Director Geological Survey of India
1952-54, comprising letters, technical reports, pamphlets and newspaper
cuttings.
21 items
1931 - 1956 View Contents
List
Bake Collection: papers, correspondence and
photographs of Arnold Adriaan Bake (b 1899), Reader in Sanskrit, University of
London 1949-63, and of his wife Cornelia Bake, including miscellaneous material
relating to their visits to India, and memorabilia of Rabindranath Tagore.
335 items
1910 - 1979 View Contents
List
(E.B.H. Baker)
Lent by Mrs. I. Baker
Microfilm Box 6 No. 45
Letters of Baker to his parents and others, 25 January
1931 to December 1932: from Madaripur where he writes he is transferred to
Hijli as Governor of the Detention Camp for Political Prisoners at Kharagpur;
arrives February 1931; conditions in the camp; description of detainees;
comments on Gandhi; letter written on 17 September 1931 describing the incident
in the camp when two detainees were killed and five wounded; the consequences;
Tagore's intervention; the Official Inquiry (Mullick and Drummond); November in
Sikkim on leave; result of the Inquiry and consequences; leaves Hijli; Congress
intrigue; reason for unrest - unemployment of the educated; goes to Alipur
(Duar Subdivision) very quiet; description of place and work; near another
detainees camp; missionaries; he feels the lack of money for social reform;
tours tea gardens; at Rajshahi describes Christmas party with Anglo-Indians;
description of Busca Detainees Camp.
Pamphlet: 'Chittagong and Hijli: British
"Misrule" in Bengal', published by J.M. Sen-Gupta. Foreword by
Rabindranath Tagore. 'Being the Report of the non-official Enquiry Committee on
Recent Disturbances in Chittagong, and the Government Committee of Enquiry on
Hijli Shooting.'
'Travel Diary Journal' (possibly amalgamated from
diaries) Volume I, November 1927 - October 1932:
Assistant Magistrate Dacca, 10 December 1927-25
November 1928; Assistant Magistrate and Collector on Settlement Training,
Burdwan District, 1928 - March 1929; Sub-Divisional Officer Rampurhat, Birbhum
District, 7 April - 31 October 1929; Sub-Divisional Officer Madaripur, November
1929 - February 1931; Commandant, Hijli Detention Camp; Kharagpur, February -
October 1931; detailed account of the camp, its running, inmates, the incident
of the shooting and consequences; Special Officer Political Department
Calcutta, November 1931 - January 1932, writing history sheets of eighty
prominent Congressmen for action, under the Emergency Powers Ordinance should
civil disobedience recommence; results of Gandhi's arrival in Bombay and the
Viceroy's refusal to discuss the N.W.F.P., U.P. and Bengal ordinances with him;
renewal of civil disobedience and consequences; leave. At the back of the
volume are accounts. 'Travel Diary', volume II, October 1932 - October 1936:
Sub-Divisional Officer Alipur-Duar, Jalpaiguri
District, November 1932 - February 1933. Very little crime and no political
trouble.
Assistant District Magistrate Myemsingh District,
February - September 1933. Account of internal running of the District.
District Magistrate, Myemsingh, August - October 1933.
Special Officer, Revenue Department, Calcutta,
November 1933 - February 1934. Inside story of writing an annual Administration
Report; Calcutta social life. Additional District and Sessions Judge, Alipore,
February - May 1934.
District and Sessions Judge, Burdwan, June - October
1934; November - December 1934. Inexperience of civil law.
Joint Magistrate, Burdwan, December 1934.
Inspections, etc.; few days in Calcutta; Viceregal Ball, Belvedere.
District and Sessions Judge, Dacca, January -
September 19 35. Importance of job for which he feels inexperienced; society
and social life in Dacca; describes work of district judge; assessment of his
own ability; describes some unscrupulous judges.
Special Officer Revenue Department, Calcutta,
November 1935 - February 1936. Writing administration report.
Special Officer Political Department, Calcutta,
February 1936. Working on matters arising in connection with the new
constitution; lists the social activities of the era; reaction in Bengal to
king George's death. Additional District and Sessions Judge, Howrah, February -
March 1936.
On leave.
'Travel Diary' Volume III, October 1936 - March
1941:
Leave until 16 November 1936.
District and Sessions Judge, Noakhali, November 1936
- February 1937. Very quiet; goes on to Krishnagar for Christmas; elections for
new Provincial Assembly.
Special Officer, Judicial Department, Calcutta,
February - April 1937. Firstly to frame certain rules for the conduct of the
official Assignee under the amended Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, etc.;
light work; Darjeeling in hot weather. Special Officer, Legislative Department,
Calcutta, April - October 1937. Very little work.
Attaché, Legislative Department, Government of
India, November 1937 - April 1938. Goes to Delhi to train in Secretariat; work
more interesting; sits in on Councils of State and Legislative Assemblies.
District and Sessions Judge, Rajshahi and Malda,
April - August 1938. Enjoys Rajshahi; floods; life on the station. Leave to get
married.
District and Sessions Judge, Rajshahi and Malda,
October 1938.
Special Officer Legislative Department and
Secretary, Calcutta, November 1938 - September 1940. Outline of work, social
and domestic life, between Calcutta and Darjeeling, and outside world in
progress of the war; picture of Darjeeling in the days of 1940, and Calcutta;
work in Calcutta, Bengal Cooperative Societies Bill, etc.
Additional Secretary to Governor of Bengal, August
1940 - September 1943. Criticisms of the Governor; criticisms of Viceregal
Staff during the war; daily life in Governor's household; war efforts in India,
1941-42; comments on India's production of war material, but these are brief as
are comments on Burma refugees; mentions Japanese invasion of Andamans brings
war nearer, and defence measures more serious; results of the war in the Far
East were felt in Calcutta, great changes there; 1943 goes on tour with the
Governor, inspecting A.R.P., etc., and collecting purses for war effort and
attending mass meetings; March - May Constitutional muddle in Bengal, but famine
beginning and Lord Wavell's appointment as Viceroy 'a decided shock'; the river
tour proposed for Governor abandoned on police advice; famine relief and
control; Sir Thomas Rutherford takes over as Acting Governor; Viceroy visits
famine areas, results good; Governors conference November 1943; death of Sir
John Herbert, 11 December. Receives O.B.E., 1944.
Joint Secretary Home Department, February - June
1944. In charge of Constitution and elections, jails, etc.
Acts as Additional Secretary Home Department June -
July 1944. Joint Secretary July - October 1944. Additional Secretary and
Provincial Transport Controller November 1944 - March 1945. Obtains Government
agreement to the appointment of a full time transport Commissioner. Leave for
England, four months.
Legislative Secretary, October - December 1945,
Calcutta, without family. Not much work; comments on Congress and the lifting
of restrictions.
Sent in February 1946 to Alipore as Additional
District and Sessions Judge 24 Parganas. Difficulty in returning to court life
and practice; April - October 1946, normal life of a magistrate, joined by his
wife; October 1946 - February 1947, normal court life; to Dacca in February
1947 for trials of riot cases, the Muslim Ministry wanted a European Judge to try
Communal cases.
The diary tails off in March - May 1947, after a
note about rioting. The journal is interspersed with detailed accounts of the
progress of the war, and the accounts of his journeys home on leave and what he
did, also of local leave; it gives nothing like the picture of his life in
India which can be drawn from his letters home. Letters home, 1927 - 1928, 1929
- 1930, 1933: these are a most vivid and interesting 'fill-in' to the journal;
he writes as a young and inexperienced official of all the details which strike
him, and thus gives a vivid picture of the life of the administrator both from
the work, the people, the stations and European life there; he goes into great
detail and provides most interesting sidelights.
Papers, notebooks and letters of Frank Owen
Bell (b 1907), Indian Civil Service 1930-47, relating to his career in Bengal
especially his settlement work in Rangpur and Dinajpur 1933-40.
60 items
1926 - 1947 View Contents
List
Given by F.O. Bell I.C.S.
Bengal: 1930-47
Small Collections Box B1
TS Record of life in the Indian Civil Service
1930-47, by F.O. Bell.
Introduction and background training in England,
first impressions in Jessore District under A.S. Larkin and S.K. Ghosh.
Transferred to Burdwan Division. Settlement training. Sub-Divisions -
Settlement work in Rangpur. Settlement Officer: Dinajpur. D.M. and Collector
Bakarganj - D.M. and Collector Midnapore; D.M. and Collector, Dacca 1944-47;
personal reflections. 51pp.
(J.M.G. Bell, I.C.S.)
Bengal 1940-1958 A Recatalogue
File 1. 1943-1947
Miscellaneous cuttings from Indian newspapers
covering politics, war, famine, independence etc. July 1943 to September 1947.
Many of the cuttings have comments by J.M.G. Bell. Included are some cuttings
relating to Gandhi and Nehru.
Instructions to S.D.O's. from District Magistrate,
J.L. Llewellyn, dated 18 November 1943 at Alipore on measures to be taken in
dealing with backlog of criminal and civil cases caused by illness etc.
Letter from S.G. Taylor (Bobby) to J.M.G. Bell about
necessity of decentralization in India, and the importance of the work and role
of the District Officers. Alipore, 12 February 1945.
Letter to E.P. Keely dated 30 January 1945, 5pp,
giving his opinions on future development in the post war period in India, with
particular reference to District Administration.
Letter from E.P. Keely dated 31 January 1945 in
reply to above.
File 2. 1940-1946
Tour diaries and notes made during tours in
Chandpur, Kalimpong and Chittagong. 1940-43.
Confidential Note dated 18 December 1944 at Burdwan for
his successor giving details of the district.
Secret report dated July 1943 on civilian
appreciation of the military situation in the Arakan front (2 copies).
Note on possible reconstruction of Local Government
at Kalimpong, 24 January 1942.
Notes for lecture delivered 30 November 1945. Covers
History, Administration etc.
Report to the Civil Defence Commissioner at Calcutta
on air raid on Chittagong, 20 December 1943.
Report on Japanese atrocities published in Statesman
19 September 1945.
8 & 9. Two Secret Reports on the political
situation in Bengal for the second half of January, 1946, and for the second
half of September 1946.
'Some Indian Customs'. Indian customs and some of
their effects on European living conditions. 5ff
'Mohsin Ali's Village'. Life and politics in a
village. 7ff.
'Agriculture in India'. Description of crops, land
tenure, inheritance, etc.
Copy of Report on Japanese Atrocities.
To the Editor of the Statesman enclosing reviews of
six books, dated at Burdwan, January 1947.
Correspondence between J.M.B. and Ian Stephens,
Editor of the Statesman about a letter from J.M.B. and the Maharaja of Burdwan,
on a letter refused publication.
Review of books.
Cutting from the Sunday Amrita Bazar Patrika 24
March 1946, containing an article by Everett Ripley, critical of British rule
in India.
a & b Two letters to E. Ripley dated at Burdwan
24 March 1946, and at Darjeeling 22 April 1946 relating to the article.
Letter from E. Ripley to J.M.G. Bell dated 17 April
1946.
From J.M.G. Bell A.D.M. Chittagong to the
Commissioner of Chittagong Div. 4 August 1943. Account of an incident involving
the death of a clerk.
Amusing wartime incident written as a short story My
Private Gun..
Answers to questionnaire. TS. Relating to work of
I.C.S. officers, District organisation, administration etc., made by J.M.G.
Bell when D.M. Burdwan, 28 November 1944. Appendices on Regulations, letters
issued, Officers' tenure.
Confidential handing over notes on Kalimpong
Sub-division. 3 April 1942.
Report from Officer-in-Charge, Gurubathan Police
Station to the Circle: Inspector of Police, Kalimpong on mismanagement in the
Samabeong Tea Estate, 23 August 1938. Letter from the C.I.P. Kalimpong to the
S.D.O. reporting on an inspection of this Estate.
25-34. Ten tour diaries by S.D.O. Kalimpong (J.M.
Bell). June 1940 March 1942.
File 3
TS script of lecture 'India and the War in the Far
East', delivered 27 June 1945. 4pp.
MS article ? 'India: who'll get the best of the
deal?' Reply to an article of same title by Ralph Izzard arguing the case for
the prosperity of Pakistan. J.M.G. Bell disagrees under sub-headings: Food;
Industry: The human element: United Bengal. 3pp.
MS article: 'Indian Prospect'. Written six weeks
after Partition, on the non cooperation between India and Pakistan, and the
outlook for the future, particularly for Pakistan. 3pp.
TS Enclosure 3. 'Note on recent experiences in
Bengal'. Account of some Partition riots. No date, but post August 1946. 3pp.
TS copy of a letter headed 'Administration in India'.
A defence of Indian administration. No date. 2pp.
Descriptive handlist of papers collected.
TS article: 'Ministers and Magistrates'. Story of
fraud perpetrated against the Hon. Minister to the Government of Bengal in the
Department of Woods and Forests, Mr. P.D. Raikot, which leads on to various
other cases of examples of fraud in its broadest sense against Government
officials. It is an article on the tensions between the Indians and English -
between governed and governors. Other cases: Jiadganj and Pollard cases, 1943;
Hatem Ali Jemadar v. Mr Palmer; criticism of the quality of Indian Ministers.
12 July 1944 10pp
TS article: 'A Gangtok Wedding'. Description of the
wedding between the eldest daughter of H.H. the Maharaja of Sikkim and Sey
Kusno Gompu Tsering Tendup of Phungkang in Tibet. The preliminary wedding at
Gangtok. 5pp. 1943.
TS article: 'One dreadful month'. The month
described is 31 July 1946-31 August 1946, in journal form. Describes the
massacres etc. which took place in Calcutta and environs in that month, and the
consequences. Described by J.M.G. Bell, who was in charge of Burdwan district.
lOpp.
TS letter (7pp.) 26 June 1958 from 'Bobby', (S.G.
Taylor, I.G. Police, Bengal) J.M.G. Bell's father-in-law) (q.v.) about the TS
article which accompanies it: 'Last Days in India'. Comments, criticisms and
corrections. The article is an expanded version of the above ? 'One dreadful
month'.
Single TS copy sheet of population statistics in
Bengal and their relation to Europeans, and in Calcutta, and in the whole of
India 1944.
File 4
Miscellaneous cuttings, notes, lecture notes etc.,
relating to various subjects - India c. 1945-47.
Microfilm Box 5 No. 37
Autobiographical novel 'Dragons in the Fairway',
written in journal form about events in India, August 1945 - December 1946 and,
and Africa, 1947 - June 1950. Appendix 'A note on the Bengal famine', 39pp.
(This is really an autobiographical journal, not a novel in any sense.)
The novel begins with description of life in the
foothills of the Himalayas: Hill people and plains people; money lenders;
wedding of the eldest daughter of the Maharaja of Sikkim; note on the
Maharaja's sister Rani Chuni Dorji and her daughter; outstanding characters;
Tibetan New Year celebrations.
War years: organization of refugee camps and
comments on dishonesty; communal rioting increasing.
1946. February: tightens security schemes against
revolt; beginning of 'troubles to come' in Calcutta, serious disturbances;
these disturbances in connection with the Indian National Army trials at Delhi;
Eurasian position; the Labour delegation. March: comment on Royal Indian Naval
mutiny; diversion on reason for Westerners not mixing socially with Asiatics.
April: strikes, reasons, description and solution; in Darjeeling; Tibetan
situation and army. May: Hindu-Muslim rioting; methods of dealing with mob
violence and raiding parties; court cases following outbreaks and Hindu-Muslim
tensions there; criticism of Indian ministers. Congress and Muslim League;
visit of ministers enquiring into recent rioting and the intrigues resulting
from their visit. July: comments on events in Delhi, i.e., new Constitution and
problem of carrying on interim government; refusal by Muslim League to enter
Constituent Assembly and consequences. August: rumours of riots from Calcutta;
beginnings of serious rioting around Kalna; news of the massacres in Calcutta;
criticism of the Governor's action; vivid picture of the massacres in Calcutta;
his own district has kept remarkably free. September: more interference from
ministers. November: Calcutta Statesman talks of civil war; effects of
Americans being in the area; refugees from Calcutta beginning to flood the
area; attitude of the middle-class refugees; work of keeping refugees fed and
in camps; law and order; strikes, cause and effect. December: ill again,
considers long leave.
1947. January: voyage home after ten years; hears of
Independence for August 15 1947. April: arrives home. November: reactions to
being home; records what they heard of the ending of British Rule in India.
December 1947 - June 1950. Records his experiences
as an Assistant Commissioner in Africa.
Appendix. 'The Bengal Famine 1942-43'. From personal
experience, elementary history books, and newspapers (1) outline of earlier
famines, (2) comparison of 1942-43 famine with earlier disasters and analysis
of the 1942-43 famine (3) the real causes and the nature of the famine.
(Sir Edward C. Benthall)
Given by Sir Paul Benthall
All India, but mainly Bengal: 1928 - 1956
A detailed list of the contents of each box is in
the archive of the Centre of South Asian Studies.
BOX I
1928-1929:
File marked 'No.10'. November and December 1928
Business correspondence received while in England on
leave. Information regarding railways - reports on Titaguhr Mills - use of
bamboo to make paper etc. - Carnatic paper mills - Government contract for
paper - future sales policy. 175pp.
File marked 'No.13'. December 1928 - January 1929
Mostly business correspondence received in England
while on leave. Staff changes - labour problems at Paper Mills - notes on
discussion regarding Burrakur Coal Co. - Contract with Tata Iron & Steel
Co. - manganese - details of Jute Mills policy - Assam Saw Mills - Punjab Sugar
Corporation Ltd. - production of jute at various companies such as Assam Saws,
Cement, Jute & Manganese - Madras and Silvertown Oils - Lord Cable's
Estate, with reasons for not making Bird & Co. a Limited Company. 180pp.
BOX II
1931-1932:
File No.3. December 1931 - July 1932
Business and political correspondence. Artificial
ghee - Jute Mills - journey to England on leave - interview with Gandhi in
Bombay - arrest of Gandhi - Inchcape's illness, possible death and the
resulting effect of shipping shares - appointment to the Consultative Committee
of the Round Table Conference - return to Calcutta - resolution passed by the
Bombay Chamber of Commerce, 6 January 1932 - Lord Cable's Estate - financial
affairs of Bird & Co. - India Publications Limited with list of firms
supporting it - financial problems of W.L. Carey - staff shortage - Hindu and
Moslem tension - notes and supports on coal mines - Chartered Bank of India -
Calcutta Electrical Supply Corporation - U.K. tarriffs - draft accounts of F.W.
Heilgers & Co. and Bird & Co. - East African Investment Co. Ltd. -
Anglo South American Bank.
File marked 'Gandhi'. 1931
Various papers, notes and letters from and about
Gandhi. Also Birla, Sir Maurice Gwyer, Sir Hubert Carr, Sir P. Thakurdas,
Ramsay Macdonald - London, October 1931 - Newspaper cuttings about Gandhi.
File marked '1931-1932, chronologically arranged
from back to front'.
Correspondence relating to the Round Table
Conference where Benthall served on a sub-committee to consider Financial and
Commercial safeguards. Also on meetings with Gandhi in London. Others such as
Birla, Mody, Sapru, Sir Hubert Carr, the Prime Minister (Ramsay Macdonald), the
Aga Khan, Tegart; Mrs. Naidu, Lady Reading, Mrs. Subbarayan, the Viceroy
(Willingdon) and many others connected with the R.T.C. in London. Gandhi's
visit to Eton.
BOX III
April, May, June 1933:
File contains correspondence and memorandum of Sir
Edward Benthall while he was in London serving as witness to the Joint Select
Committee to the R.T.C.
Subjects: The views of the Indian Chamber of
Commerce, North India Commercial Seat, Lancashire, purchase of Indian cotton,
Commercial Safeguards, Employers' Federation of India.
File marked 'Special Political Memoranda - Summer
1933'
Contents: Papers relating to the Bengal Chamber of
Commerce, Circular letters; Commercial Safeguards, Federal Finance; the Assam
Oil Company; Proposals for Indian Constitutional Reform.
BOX IV
File marked 'Political Summer 1933'
Contents: 1933 unless otherwise stated.
Correspondence dealing with membership to the International Chamber of Commerce
- terrorism in Bengal - Bird & Co. business - re-organisation of the
European Association - the Anglo-Indian Community - The Morning Post - the Communal
Award - the transfer of Law and Order powers - Special Branches - C.I.D. - the
political climate in Bengal - finances for the Star of India - European
Representation on Legislature - Cotton Piece goods.
File marked 'Special Political Memoranda. Summer 1933'
Contents: On the White Paper for Indian
Constitutional Reforms - Bengal Industries Association - The Road-Rail
Conference in April - The Workmen's Compensation Act 1923 - correspondence with
the Assam Oil Company and the Burmah Oil Company - the European Group serving
on the Joint Select Committee - annual reports for the Company.
BOX V
File containing correspondence from the year 1933
while E.B. was in England.
Contents: Advertising in Star of India (Nazimuddin)
- Reforms and Income Tax - Central organisation of Chambers of Commerce -
progress of Joint Select Committee - Assam branch of European Associations
opposition Capital Expenditure Scheme (Runciman) - Cotton (India, Japan and
Lancashire) - Morning Post, letters from Europeans against the White Paper's
proposed Reforms - Anglo-Indian and Domiciled Europeans - Northern India
Commercial Seat, - The Reserve Bank. 241 pp.
File marked 'Special Political Memoranda, Summer
1933'
Contents: Political memoranda on the proposals for Indian
Constitutional Reform relating to the State Bank of India, Chambers of
Commerce, Commercial Safeguards. Also memoranda relating to the Thirteenth
Congress of the Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire in July. 153pp.
BOX VI
1935, August 13 - December 30:
Correspondence received while on leave in England.
Iron and steel including correspondence with Sir Nowrasjee Saklatwala about a
possible merger between Tata Iron & Steel Company of Bombay and the Bengal
Iron Company. 273 pp.
File marked 'Political File from June 1935 to
September 1935'
Mostly business letters received while on leave in
England. Reserve Bank of India, letters and circulars - share issue - Provident
Fund Regulations - The Associated Chambers of Commerce of India - letters from
Bird & Co., - notes on the Simla session of the Legislative Assembly,
September 1935 - Industrial Bulletin of the Employers' Federation of India -
the political organisation of the Europeans in Bengal with reference to Sir
John Anderson. 320pp.
BOX VII
Diaries kept by E.B. 1929-1933 and 1942-1946:
Business affairs set against events in India. Many
political discussions both with Indian and British leaders. Visit to Sikkim.
The Cripps' Mission. Tours various parts of India. Effects of the war on India.
E.B.'s views on the Government and the feelings he encounters.
BOX VIII
Two files containing a collection of newspaper
political cartoons from 1942-46:
Various articles and speeches on the business
community in India. Documents and photographs concerned with the port of Bombay
disaster in 1944. Letters from Sri Prakasa 1948-1959. Part of a TS entitled 'A
History of India, 1942- 1957'.
BOX IX
File labelled 'Sir E.C. Benthall, Political File,
1935 from October'.
Subjects cover The Reserve Bank - E.B. invited to
serve on Company Law Committee by Sir Nripendranath Sircar - the Vickers'
proposals presentation to Sir Hubert and Lady Carr at Claridges Hotel in
London; elections of the Directors of the Reserve Bank - formation of a
Constitutional Party: the European viewpoint - the establishing of an Indian
Institute of International Affairs - employing A.D. Curtis-Miller -
conversations with Sir James Grigg on the need for reform at the centre as
being of the utmost importance. 200pp.
File No. 2A, September to November 1935:
Business correspondence concerning coal mines, jute
mills, railways, government interventions into industries, engineering works,
Company Law Reform. 450pp.
BOX X
File containing correspondence while E.B. was in
England from June - September 1935:
Bird & Co., business affairs: Jute Mill
interests - Association working agreement - Quetta reconstruction - Karanpura
Development Co. and Bisra Stone Lime Co. - employment of staff - Coimbatore
Cement Co. - R. Steel & Co. Ltd. - Ramgarh Estate at Hazaribagh - Indian
Red Cross Society in Bengal - F.W. Heilgers & Co., Rangoon - Steel Baling
Co. - Government intervention in the Jute Trade - the Lindridge Lease (E.B.'s
residence in Devon). 615pp.
BOX XI
1937
March to July 1937. Business and private
correspondence received while on leave in England.
Coal mine reports, i.e. Kavanpura - Societa
Marmifera Italiana - Jute Mills - staff appointments - Kumardhubi Steel Foundry
- Assam Saw Mills - Karanpura Leases - business negotiations in Japan (Mr.
Tapuchi) - unemployment of undergraduates - Eastern Minerals Ltd. Jute Mills
Apprentice Scheme - Financial position of both firms July 1937 - Sirka Bose
Coal Mine - labour difficulties - Foundation ceremony of the Dalmis Cement
Company in Karachi - Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art (Luzac &
Co.) - Isco Iron Ore - Lady Benthall's ill health - position of the Star of
India - resignation of C.H. Jenner - Trade Unions in Jute Mills - requests for
positions in India - Coal Contracts - Katras Coalmine - Rai Bahadur Promatha Nath
Mullick, - Draft speech on the founding of Calcutta by Job Charnock - Rules for
the granting of Retiring Allowance for Indian Staff in Head Office - Somakunda
Baling Share - Note on Chandigarh sandstone deposits - pig iron for Japan.
483pp.
BOX XII
File marked 'Political Correspondence received while
on leave in England, February to August 1937':
Printed matter related to the International Chamber
of Commerce and typed circulars from the Associated Chambers of Commerce of
India and the Federation of Chambers of the British Empire - the European
Group, Bengal Legislature - correspondence between E.C. Benthall and members of
Bird & Co. in Calcutta and various. Indian politicians - Jute Mills strike
- Society for the Protection of Children in India - Ottawa Agreement - Bengal
Budget for 1937/38 - Indian Jute Mills Association Bengal - political situation
- Jute Mills and labour - papers relating to a meeting held at Chatham House in
June on cultural relations between the West and India. 417pp.
BOX XIII
Three files containing business and political
correspondence received while in England, July to December 1937:
Reports on the coal mines and Jute Mills -
propaganda leaflets encouraging strike action - iron ore to Japan - dealings
with Tata Iron & Steel Co. staff arrangements and home leave - safeguards
for European policy. Papers and letters to do with the Insurance Bill have
references to many of the then political leadership such as Nehru, Desai,
Sircar and Jinnah. 882pp.
BOX XIV
File of general correspondence, mostly business,
received while on leave in England 1937/38:
Strikes at the Jute Mills - a copy of an account of
the arrival in Calcutta in 1908 of one of Heilger's early employees - Birds
audited accounts - communist activity amongst the firm's dock labour -
inefficiency of the Calcutta Electric supply. 540pp.
BOX XV
File of business and political correspondence
received while in London at the Ministry of Economic Affairs from August -
December 1941:
Sugar production - letters and reports from mines
and mills - releasing men in business for combatant service in war irrespective
of the effect on commerce - British views of the position in India. 562pp.
BOX XVI
1941:
Business and political correspondence received while
at the Ministry of Economic Affairs from January - April 1941:
Possibility of newsprint manufacture in India -
labour unions - the opinions of various Indian leaders on India's future,
British war policy and the state of Indian business and commerce (letter no.
16) - Jute Mills position - staff problems, cost of living - minutes of
partners' meetings - letters and reports on various mines, mills and factories
- staff salaries. 485pp
BOX XVII
April 1941 - May 1942:
Correspondence received while in England at the
Ministry of Economic Warfare.
Ministry and Indian correspondence and reports from
Associations - the European Group in the Bengal Legislature - comments on
various Indian leaders - letters expressing views of members of the European
Association on their position in India - reactions of the Muslim League -
Congress National Party - Commercial Safeguards - diaries of events in India -
publicity for India in the U.K. and U.S.A.; dock labour - British
Constitutional Reform in India - the Roger Mission - Propaganda for India.
516pp.
BOX XVIII
1942:
General correspondence from January to May 1942 when
in England attached to the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Deals with business
and political matters in India, reports of companies and output of mills and
mines - minutes of partners' meetings - precautions against emergencies in
Calcutta - different measures prepared in case of invasion - A.R.P. activity -
paper supplies - sugar market - strikes at mills - memorandum on jute
industries -general conditions of everyday life - formation of labour battalion.
5,04pp.
BOX XIX
File marked 'Politics, 1940' - Covering the years
1939-1944:
Correspondence with Sir John Herbert, Lord
Linlithgow and Auchinleck. Published correspondence between Linlithgow and
Gandhi.
Copies of the minutes of the Executive Council's
meetings from July-October 1942 approximately, covering the Congress campaign
and the Working Committee's Resolution. Papers by E.B. on the political
situation in India at that time. Notes, in diary form, taken after discussion
with various Indian political leaders. Various other letters and papers
connected with the European Association, expansion of the Air force and several
newspaper cuttings. 390pp.
BOX XX
Two files containing newspaper cuttings,
miscellaneous notes and statistics all relating to Indian currency and Indian
financial management and the establishment of a State Bank. Various
parliamentary papers on those subjects, covering the years 1912/13 and 1931/32
and 1939. 194pp.
BOX XXI
Typed paper entitled, 'The Political Situation in
India in March 1940' 69pp.
Short stories and articles mostly by E.B. and
extracts from 'The First Letter Book of the East India Company 1600- 1619'. A
record of John Benthall working as a mercantile assistant in 1630
approximately.
BOX XXII
Miscellaneous letters, mostly personal - collection
of newspaper cuttings from India and England, mostly relating to the time Sir
Edward was War Minister for Transport 1942/43. 304pp.
Envelope marked C with three unidentified
photographs.
BOX XXIII
Mostly pamphlets, newspapers and letters relating to
Indian Railways, covering 1908-1947. 183pp.
BOX XXIV
Printed pamphlets relating to the Bengal Chamber of
Commerce covering 1904-1956.
BOX XXV
Printed pamphlets of a political and parliamentary
nature 1913-1956.
BOX XXVI
Biography of Geoffrey Garratt.
BOX XXVII
Benthall family correspondence from 1827-1875.
BOX XXVIII
Letters and papers of Edward Benthall 1837-1855
BOX XXIX
Family correspondence to and from India 1826-1893
BOX XXX
Diaries of Clementine Benthall in India 1841-1853
BOX XXXI
84 water-colour sketches of scenes in Bengal 1842-55
and Burma 1849.
BENTHALL PAPERS
BOX XXI
Given by Sir (Arthur) Paul Benthall. Sir Paul joined
Bird & Co. and F.W. Heilgers & Co. of Calcutta in 1924; he was
Vice-President, Bengal Chamber of Commerce in 1947 and its President in 1948.
Typescript notes by Sir Paul, written in 1970, of
encounters with three Indian leaders at the time of partition:
H. S. Suhrawardy. Describes negotiation with
Suhrawardy as a labour leader. Considers his part in 1943 Bengal Famine and
allegation that he engineered grain shortages to raise prices. Believes that
League's activities at time of partition were financed by Bengal Famine.
Gandhi. Describes interview with Gandhi in Calcutta
during autumn of 1947. Gandhi was seeking help of businessmen in rebuilding the
city. Twenty minutes after meeting, mob of young Hindus attempted to attack
Gandhi. Gives account of this.
Nehru. Met Nehru many times and although was treated
with much charm believes discussions were entirely useless. Describes their
work together on Gandhi Memorial Fund. Once, when in Calcutta, Nehru had
violently reacted to suggestion that Indian Army should intervene in East
Pakistan to protect Hindus. This was entirely typical of man. 6pp.
Tape recording of interview, given 1983, by
Sir (Arthur) Paul Benthall (b 1902), employee and later partner of Bird &
Company and F W Heilgers (merchants and managing agents), Calcutta, on his life
and career in India 1924- c1950.
2 cassettes 1924 - 1950
Sir Edward Charles Benthall. Partner, Bird & Co.
from 1923; Governor, Imperial Bank of India 1928-30; Member, Bengal Legislative
Assembly 1934-35; Member, Governor-General's Executive Council, War Transport
and Railways 1942-46.
Additional material given by Mr R.P. Benthall (son).
Books:
A history of Bird & Co. By M.S. Jacomb-Hood. 2
Vols. Calcutta: Privately printed for the Company, 1929.
The Cable: the house magazine of the Birds &
Heilgers Group. 4 Vols, 1950-64. [Lord Cable (1859-1927) joined Bird & Co.
in 1881 and was made a Partner in 1886.]
BOX 31
1. Will and Codicils of Lord Cable. Will dated 30
October 1925; First Codicil dated 3 December 1926; Second Codicil dated 14
March 1927. 38ff.
2. Memoranda with appendices on the Estate of Lord
Cable. 107pp in various pagings.
3. Lithograph book relating to the 'Mulberry
Scheme'. This related to a large number of proposed transactions mainly
concerning Eastern Investments Ltd. On 13 May 1946 the Trustees authorised the
Standard Trust Co. Ltd to proceed with the Scheme. 58ff.
Donated by K.W. Bevan
Calcutta 1931-c. 1951
Small Collections Box B1
'India'. A TS account written in 1980 of first
impressions made by the country on a young man, (himself), who had gone to
Calcutta to work in a firm of Chartered Accountants. He compares the life and responsibilities
of a young member of a firm in the 1930s and the 1980s.
'Work in India' describes the differences between
work in a Calcutta firm and one in England. He describes the Managing Agency.
Mentions the role of banks in the business world of Calcutta. 33pp.
Given by Sir Henry and Lady Birkmyre
Bengal: 1880 - 1945
Small Collections Box B1
Hastings Air Base: Headquarters U.S.A.A.F.
India-Burma Theater.
Printed December 1945.
A pictorial record of Hastings Factory in World War
II when it was turned from a jute factory into the U.S.A.A.F. H.Q. Hastings
Mill had been owned by the Birkmyre's who bought the land (previously owned. by
Warren Hastings as a summer home) and in 1874 built the first jute mill in
India. It became the largest mill under one roof. The mill was dismantled by
the U.S.A.A.F. and after the war reassembled by them.
Brief history of the Birkmyre connection with India
written in a letter by Sir Henry on 3 December 1975.
Copy of pictorial record of Hastings Factory during
the 1914-18 War when the factory changed from jute manufacture to munitions.
Copy of Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings about Lt.
Colonel A.M. Shewell of the Bombay Staff Corps who died from wounds received in
the retreat from Kandahar on the 2 September 1880. (Lt. Colonel Shewell was
Lady Birkmyre's grandfather).
Copy of a MS letter written on 7 November 1897 by an
officer in an unnamed regiment supporting the Dorset and Northamptonshire
Regiments in an action on the N.W.F.P. The letter vividly describes the action
and subsequent forays and retributive sorties.
Donated by SF Bolt
Small Collections Box B2
TS copy of journal entry for 3.7.1945 regarding the
feeding of whale flesh to Indian Troops
Donated by Dr. N.L. Bor, Director of Assam Relief
Measures
Small Collections Box B2
TS copy of 'Report of Relief Measures in Assam.' (47
pp.)
The Japanese campaign of 1944.
The birth of Assam relief measures.
The base camp - Bokajan.
Relief:
Interim Relief:
Interim relief
Medical Arrangements
Permanent Relief:
Source of supplies
Feeding the afflicted population
The rebuilding of houses
Replacement of household effects
Replacement of livestock
Transport
Staff
Afforestation
Vegetable seeds and grafts
Retrospect
Acknowledgements
Map: Untitled map drawn to accompany above report
(Mrs. Irene Bose)
Given through the good offices of Dr. Ruth Hardy.
Central Provinces C. 1926 - 1974.
BOX I
Unwoven carpet of Hindustan. by Irene Base. A memoir
written by Mrs. Bose from time to time throughout her life in India.
(C.1926 - 1974). TS 211 pp.
Beginning of welfare work in cotton mill - mistakes
and problems - the enormous social problems, customs and beliefs - the tragedy
and the beauty of Indian village life.
Marries Vivian Bose, an Indian, and a High Court
Judge. Description of the family house and city. Entrance into the family and
an appreciation of the great personality of her husband's grandfather.
Household management.
Starts educational village work again. Picks on
Koradi as being suitable.
Preliminary discussions in the village for
permission to begin.
Miss D., the social worker, begins with medicine.
Her reception. Results of this medical beginning. Miss D. moves to a house
nearby in Mahdulla.
Time-sense in timeless people. Lord Irwin, Bhagwat
the headman, and the well. Profile of Bhagwat. Progress and village life.
Characters and small incidents in village life.
A journey into the jungle. Christmas in tribal
territory.
Entertaining a variety of people in the war.
Beginning a new village school. Success and problems
of water and caste. Adult classes begin. Comments and incidents which the
school brings.
The multifarous consequences of the school. First
visit to grandfather's house in Calcutta. Traditional relationships.
Description of a three day fair for children.
Famine - and famine relief organisation - aspects of
hunger.
Discussions about religious beliefs and marriage.
Jumble sale and the incredible jumble.
Famine again - broken rice sold. Critique of
government policy -Grain shop and the tragedies of famine.
Grain shop put on Government rationing scheme.
Incidents in the grain shop.
From grain ship to Investiture.
An act of great courtesy done by the men of the
village.
The visit of a saddhu.
The case of a boy with a broken hip.
Goats.
Three day Viceregal visit to the city.
Gandhi - incidents of meetings.
The visit of a Scandinavian woman who tries
unsuccessfully to reform the village.
Incidents of a sick child, a sick woman, a kitten - all
indicative of Indian village life.
Dasera Festival described.
Statue of Queen Victoria.
Incident of a woman who had been imprisoned during
the war as part of the Quit India Movement.
Small, very illustrative incidents of life in India
and Indian characteristics.
Flashback to cholera epidemic, and the fight against
superstition, ignorance, and the disease.
News of Gandhi's death and the following day of
universal common prayer.
BOX II
1&2. Autobiographical papers: 'You ask how my
life in India began?' (2 copies each 13pp.).
Christmas letter written by Vivian Bose, her
husband, telling of illness and death of Irene, 1975. 10pp.
Biographical sketch. 4pp.
37 Letters, mostly to her parents, written
1924-1968, mainly about welfare work. Gandhi's death - etc.
Undated letters and jottings.
21 Stories written by Irene Bose reflecting her life
and experiences in India.
'We Poor' Survey: a research project from U.S.I.S.
on Villages. The supporting questions are present but answers are vague.
9&10 Two notebooks of poems and descriptions of
India written by Irene Bose.
11&12 Two notebooks of poems collected by Irene
Bose.
Bowman Collection: papers of Archibald Ian
Bowman (1915-87), Indian Civil Service, United Provinces 1937-47, chiefly
relating to his role in the Lushai Hills Total Defence Scheme and `V' Force
1942-44, and his continuing interest in the Lushai (or Mizo) people after
independence; also papers of Maj Anthony Gilchrist McCall (1895- 1978), Superintendent
of the Lushai Hills 1931-43.
64 items
1937 - 1987 View Contents
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Donated by Diana F. Boyes
Calcutta 1890-1939
Small Collecctions Box B2
A brief memoir of her parents' life written in 1980,
and her own as a young child in India, 1927-1932. By Diana F. Boyes: written in
1980.
Her father was G.H. Rothera, a partner in Burn &
Co. Calcutta.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Frank
Herbert Brown (1868-1959), journalist in India, later London correspondent of
'Times of India'; editorial staff of `The Times' 1929-54 for Indian and Eastern
affairs.
9 items
1929 - 1946 View Contents
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Brown Collection: papers of Mrs Muriel
Brown (1874-1943), daughter of Sir Adelbert Talbot, Indian Political Service
1872-1900, and of her husband Percy Brown (1872-1955), Indian Educational
Service 1899-1927, secretary and curator, Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta
1927-47, mainly comprising personal correspondence with her husband, father,
daughter and friends.
125 items
1878 - 1945 View Contents
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Butler Collection: correspondence and
papers of Sir (Spencer) Harcourt Butler (1869-1938), Indian Civil Service,
United Provinces 1890-1928; Foreign Secretary, Government of India 1908-10;
Education Member, Governor- General's Council 1910-15; Lieutenant-Governor of
Burma 1915-18; Lieutenant-Governor 1918, and Governor 1921-22 of United
Provinces; Governor of Burma 1923-27; Chairman, Indian States Committee 1928.
112 items
1881 - 1938 View Contents
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Calcutta Dinner Collection: papers relating
to the organization of the annual Calcutta Dinner held in London 1902- 69 for
ex- Calcutta businessmen.
63 items
1902 - 1969 View Contents
List
(M.O. Carter)
MS and TS memoirs, Chittagong District:
'Bose Bros.' pp. 1-2
'The political situation 1942-43.' pp. 3-4
'Ode to Fazlal Huq.' p. 4
'The 1943 famine.' pp. 5-6
'C'est la guerre 1944' (capture of
Akyab-Chittagong), p. 7
'Trouble in 1946' (mention of Gandhi p.13). pp. 8-13
'Introduction of air survey in Bengal.' pp. 14-15
Material received later:
'Customs of the people.' pp. 1-2
Poem: 'The Mong, the Bohmong, and the Chakma.'
'European social life.' pp. 1-3
Poem: 'Calcutta - January 1943.'
(Major W.H. Carter)
1 photograph album of photos of Chittagong, Kuki
punitive expedition, Nepal, Kashmir, army life, Imphal.
TS Report of Sessions Trial No. 2 of 6th Session
1922 in the court of the Additional Sessions Judge Bakarganj-Bengal: Emperor vs
Saheruddi. Charge to the jury. W.H. Carter, 4 July 1922. 21 pp.
Letter in Pitman's shorthand from W.H. Carter
(Captain and Adjutant 3rd Assam Rifles, Imphal) from Tamenglon, Manipur State,
to his brother in Liverpool. With transliteration. 9 April 1919.
Map of Bengal.
Driving licence, Chittagong, 1921.
Books presented:
Holderness, Sir T.W. 'Peoples and problems of
India.' (n.d. but probably 1911.)
Marsham, John Clark. Abridgement of the history of
India from the earliest period to the present time. New ed. with map. 1893.
Bahadur, Rai Nibaron Chandra Dasgupta. The practice
and profession of law ... with a 'Foreword' by W.H. Carter. Calcutta, 1926.
Papers of John Alexander Chapman (Librarian of the
Imperial Library Calcutta 1911-1930). (Recatalogued on accession of new
material given by Mrs. M. Craig, the daughter of J. A. Chapman).
Given by G.D.M. Bullard, and Mrs. M. Craig.
India general:
Box I
Three TS bound volumes of a journal/log
book/miscellany, typed on the back of the galley proofs of Denison Ross's Both
Ends of the Candle which includes memoirs of India, and other literary figures
of the era (1930s) in India. No date. (See Box VI).
Two volumes bound TS of letters to Dora Ross,
1911-39.
Denison and Dora Ross (parts of unfinished books) TS
bound, no date, but post 1943.
Nobody's letters to F.G.E. and M.G.N. (Chapman's
sisters) TS, bound, 1936-43. Three volumes.
Box II
Ten volumes of quotations, comments., etc. indexed
in pencil at the end of each volume, but the index is not alphabetical.
Miscellaneous offprints, etc.
The Asiatic Review, July 1949: Literary India II The
religious poetry of India by Dr. Ranjee G. Shahani.
Three letters from E.H.W. Meyerstein to J. A.
Chapman, 1940.
14 fascicles of TS - literary journal, and diary of
bird-watching.
Box III
The Epic of Islam:
Book One: Arabia and Mecca. Privately printed 1950.
(A second copy)
Book Two: Judaism and Islam. Privately printed 1950.
(Preface and poem).
Book Three: Muhammed in Mecca, TS 1953
Book Four: Muhammed in Medina (bound together with
Book Three)
Book Five: Hazrat 'Ali. TS 25pp.
Book Six: Karbala. Privately printed 1950.
The Last Book: TS Bound, 107pp, 1950.
Poems, by J.A.C. Calcutta, 1905. Denison Ross's
copy.
TS Poems, 34pp.
4 TS articles and poems, and 1 MS trans.
Box IV
Printed Books by J. A. Chapman (see list of books)
Box V
War, Poems, by J. A. Chapman. Savile Press 1951.
War, TS proof of 21.
War, TS proof of 21 with additional material mostly
from Dante.
TS Notebooks and books:
Dante and Milton.
Poems n.d.
Hopkins, a commentary, 1951.
Persephone, 1953 (a poem).
Reading, 1956.
Box VI
29 and 30. A French Commonplace Book I and II.
a. Both Ends of the Candle, the autobiography of Sir
E. Denison Ross, with a foreword by Lawrence Binyon. London, Faber & Faber,
1943.
b. TS. A critical commentary on Denison Ross's
autobiography (31a) by J. A. Chapman. 137pp.
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Persian MSS in
the Oriental Public Library at Bankipore (Volume II) by Manlavi Abdul Muqtadir
Khan Bahadur. Patna, Government Printing, Bihar and Orissa, 1933.
Box VII
MS notebook of quotations entitled This English
Language, by J. A. Chapman.
34 and 35. Two MS notebooks entitled 'D's diary
U.S.A.' (Diary of visit to U.S.A. by Dora Ross). n.d.
TS parody on the Athanasian Creed entitled 'The
Triarchic Faith', about the Government of India. 3pp.
In his own country: an Anglo-Indian play in one act,
by E. A. Horne, n.d.
The political system of British India with special
reference to the recent constitutional changes by E. A. Horne (Indian
Educational Service), Oxford 1922.
TS Article on Sayyid Abu Muhammad. 18pp, n.d.
TS Persian and Indian poems by J. A. Chapman, 1934
and 1937.
Christus Natus Est, published by author J. A. Chapman
at the Imperial Library, Metcalfe Hall, Calcutta, 1923.
a & b. Religious Lyrics of Bengal by John
Alexander Chapman. The Book Co., College Square, Calcutta, 1926 (2 copies).
Address by Dr. W. A. Jenkins, Vice-Chancellor, at
the Annual Degree Convocation of the University of Dacca, 4 December 1955.
15pp.
Address by Dr. W. A. Jenkins, Vice-Chancellor,
University of Dacca ... at the 8th Pakistan Science Congress, 16 January 1956.
10pp.
Poems, by Henry Martin, Peshawar, 1929.
Poems, by Henry Martin, Peshawar, 1930.
Box VIII
File marked: 'Eastern Poetry', containing 43
articles, reviews, letters, etc. ranging from 'The cultural root of the
revolutionary and terrorist movement in India', to 'Hafiz, and Malherbe', 'The
Poetic East', 'Mahatma Gandhi' and 'The Literary Approach to India' and 'Modern
Indian Poetry'. 343pp.
File marked: 'Letters from Nabboo' (being the
Mohommad Amir Haider Khan, brother of the Raja of Mahmudabad) from Lucknow and
London. Also contains J. A. Chapman's further notes on Eastern poetry and
Islam, and 'Naboo's' comments. 568pp.
File marked: 'Gleanings Dora' but containing copies
of obituary notices, some written by J. A. Chapman for Professor V. Barthold;
Henry Beveridge; Professor E. G. Browne; M. Henri Cordier; Lord Curzon; Dr. T.
W. Rhys Davids; Robert Scott Greenshields; de Stael Holstein; D. S.
Margoliouth; F.W.K. Muller; Professor Meillet; Dr. F. Rosen; M. Emile Senart:
Guy Le Strange.
Microfilm
(Box 4, No.29)
TS. 'A poet in India'
This is in the nature of a commonplace book, compiled
while Librarian at Imperial Library in Calcutta. Consists of quotations of and
meditations and thoughts on Indian and English poetry and prose, and
Christianity and Hinduism.
Notes on: his book Christus Natus Est - a reply to
Lady Mayo's book - comments. A number of explanations of Hindu and Buddhist
mystical and philosophical terms.
The Rajakumar Sahib of Mahmudabad. The effect of
Indian literature on Europe and America. The wrong things have been translated.
Comments on what has been translated and the translators. Charles Russell;
Edward Fitzgerald; Cowell; K. K. Chatterji; Dr. Gilbert Carter. Comments on
translation of poetry, particularly Eastern poetry, and its reception in the
West. Comments on the Princes. Sayyid Abu Muhammad. Denison Ross. Lord Hailey
and the vernacular literature of India. Comments on the makers of Pakistan.
Further history of his attempt to interest England in the vernacular
literatures of India. The British Council in India. Notes on: Persian poetry;
B. S. Mitter; Educational Service; Sunni Muslims. Attitude towards British rule
in India - his own and by Indians; race-prejudice; the Copyright Act.
Ends abruptly.
(Lady Chatterjee, widow of Sir Atul Chandra
Chatterjee)
Books presented:
Allan, J., Wolseley Haig, T. and Dodwell, H.H. The
Cambridge shorter history of India. Cambridge, 1934.
Angel, T. 'Guldasta-I-Shujaet or life of Lieutenant
Colonel John Baptist.' MS & TS.
Arberry, A.J. The library of the India Office; a
historical sketch. London, 1938.
Association of Women's Institutes in Ceylon.
Twenty-second annual report. 1951-1952.
Ayyar, C.P.V. Town planning in ancient Dekkan.
Madras, 1916.
Barnett, L.D. The heart of India; sketches in the
history of Hindu religion and morals. London, 1913.
Bernier, F. Travels in the Mogul Empire, A.D.
1656-1668. ... 2nd ed. London, 1914.
'The Bhagavad-Gita'. Sanskrit text, with free
translation into English ... London, 1905.
Bhandarkar, R.G. Early history of the Dekkan down to
the Mahomedan conquest 2nd ed. Bombay, 1895.
Bhargava, B. Indigenous banking in ancient and
medieval India. Bombay, 1934
Bible. New Testament. The New Testament in the
Marathi language. London, 1864
Birdwood, G.C.M. Sva. Edited by F.H. Brown. London,
1915
Broughton, G.M. Labour in Indian industries. London,
1924.
Brown, P. Indian architecture (Buddhist and Hindu
periods.) Bombay, n.d.
Brown, P. Indian painting. Calcutta, n.d.
Buckland, C.E. Dictionary of Indian biography.
London, 1906.
Burgess, J. The chronology of modern India for four
hundred years from the close of the fifteenth century, AD 1494- 1894.
Edinburgh, 1913.
Burnett-Hurst, A.R. Labour and housing in Bombay
.... London, 1925.
Caldecott, R.M. The Life of Berber, Emperor of
Hindostan. London, 1844.
Chakravarti, H.L. Elements of Hindu law for
students. 16th ed. Calcutta, 1929.
Chatterjee, A.C. The new India. London, 1948.
Chaturvedi, S.N. An educational survey of a district
.... Allahabad, 1935.
Clark, W.E. Indian conceptions of immortality.
Cambridge, Mass., 1934.
Clow, A.G. The Indian Workmen's Compensation. Act
(VIII of 1923). 2nd ed. Allahabad, 1924.
Clow, A.G. The state and industry .... Calcutta,
1928.
Das, R.K. 'Child labour in India.' Reprinted from International
Labour Review Vol. XXVIII no. 6 and Vol. XXIX no. 1. Geneva, 1934.
Das, R.K. 'Woman labour in India.' Reprinted from
International Labour Review Vol. XXIV nos. 4-5. Geneva, 1931.
Day, L.B. Folk tales of Bengal. London, 1912.
Durai, J.C. and Miles, G.E. Questions and answers in
Hindu and Mahommedan law. London, 1935.
Famine Inquiry Commission. Report on Bengal. 1945.
Fergusson, J. History of Indian and Eastern
architecture. 2 vols. New York, 1891.
'The Filose family of Gwalior.' Xerox copy, n.d.
Ganguli, S. Essays and criticisms; being a
collection of articles selected from ... the Calcutta Review ... the Modern
Review and the Presidency College Magazine. London, 1927.
Gedge, E.C. and Choksi, M. eds. Woman in modern
India. Bombay, 1929.
Ghose, A.C. The principles of Anglo-Mohammedan Law.
4th ed. Calcutta, 1927.
Ghose, M. Love-songs and elegies. London, 1898.
Gidvani, M.M. Shah Abdul Latif. London, 1922.
Gopal, M.E. Mauryan public finance. London, 1935.
Government of India Act, 1935 ... London, H.M.S.O.,
1940.
Gradmann, B. Indische Miniaturen. Berne, 1949.
Gupta, J.N. Life and works of Romesh Chunder Dutt.
London, 1911.
Gupta, S.C.D. An easy Indian history for the young.
3rd ed. rev. Dacca, 19:
'H.C.' A brief survey of Indian history from the
earliest times to the present day. Calcutta, 1936
Halifax, E. The Indian problem. London, 1942.
A handbook for travellers in India, Burma and
Ceylon; including all British India, the Portuguese and French possessions, and
the protected native States. 10th ed. London, 1920.
Harris, F.R. Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata: a chronicle
of his life. London, 1925.
Hartog, M. India in outline. Cambridge, 1944.
Hartog, M. Living India. London, 1935.
Hartog, P. Some aspects of Indian education past and
present. London, 1939.
Haward, E. A picture of India; its history, people
and government. London, n.d.
Home, A. ed. Rammohun Roy, the man and his work.
Calcutta, 1933.
Howard, H.F. India and the gold standard. Calcutta,
1911.
India. The constitution of India (as modified up to
May 1st, 1955). Delhi, 1955.
India. Health survey and development committee.
Survey. Vol. 1. Delhi, 1946.
India. Legislative department. The code of criminal
procedure (Act V of 1898) as amended up to date. Edited by B.B. Mitra. 5th ed.
Calcutta, 1926.
India. Legislative department. The Indian Evidence
Act, 1872 (Act No.I of 1872) as modified up to the lst July 1911. Calcutta,
1924
India. Railway department. Tourist map of India.
n.d.
Indian and Pakistan year book. Vol. XXXI 1944-45;
Vol. XXIV 1948. Bombay.
Ismail, M. My public life; recollections and
reflections of Sir Mirza Ismail. London, 1954.
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The Jayaji Pratap. 1. Birthday number, 1920; 2. 12
February 1925, 'The late Sardar Sir Michael Filose.'
Jevons, H.S. Money, banking and exchange in India.
Simla, 1922.
Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art. Vol.
I, 1933; vol. III, 1935; vol. IV, no. 1, June 1936.
Kabir. One hundred poems; ... translated by
Rabindranath Tagore assisted by Evelyn Underhill. London, 1914.
Kalidasa. Sakuntala; prepared for the English stage
by Kedar Nath Das Gupta in a new version written by Laurence Binyon, with an
introductory essay by Rabindranath Tagore. London, 1920.
Kashi Tirth Sudhar Trust. Benares and its ghats.
Benares, 1931.
Kaviraj, K. Chaitanya's life and teachings. Trans.
into English by Jadunath Sarkar. 2nd ed. Calcutta, 1922.
Kisch, H.M. A young Victorian in India; letters ...
edited by his daughter Ethel A. Waley Cohen .... London, 1957.
The Koran; commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed;
translated from the original Arabic ... by George Sale. 2 vols. London, 1825.
Kydd, J.C. compiler. A history of factory
legislation in India. Calcutta, 1920.
Lane-Poole, S. Babar. Oxford, 1899.
Lokanathan, P.S. Industrial welfare in India.
Madras, 1929.
MacNicol, M, ed. Poems by Indian women selected and
rendered by various translators Calcutta, 1923..
MacNicol, N. Pandita Ramabai. London, 1926.
MacPhail, J.M. The story of the Santal; with an
account of the Santal rebellion. Calcutta 8 Simla, 1922.
Malcolm, J. Sketches of Persia. Vol. 2. London,
1894.
Mann, E.H. Land and labour in a Deccan village.
London, 1917.
Masani, R.P. The conference of the birds; a sufi
allegory being an abridged version of Farid-ud-din Attar's Mantiq-ut- tayr.
London, 1924.
Matheson, M.C. Indian industry yesterday, today and
tomorrow. London, 1930.
Mayne, J.D. A treatise on Hindu Law and usage. rev.
and ed. by V.M. Coutts Trotter. 9th ed. Madras, 1922.
Moreland, W.H. The agrarian system of Moslem India;
a historical essay with appendices. Cambridge, 1929.
Moreland, W.H. The agriculture of the United
Provinces; an introduction for the use of landholders and officials. Allahabad,
1904.
Moreland, W.H. From Akbar to Aurangzeb; a study in
Indian economic history London, 1923.
Moreland, W.H. India at the death of Akbar; an
economic study. London, 19
Moreland, W.H. ed. Relations of Golconda in the
early seventeenth century; London, 1931.
Moreland, W.H. The revenue administration of the United
Provinces. Allahabad. 1911.
Moreland, W.H. and Chatterjee, A.C. A short history
of India. 4th ed. Lon 7.957.
Moreland, W.H. and Geyl, P. Jahangir's India; the
'Remonstrantie' of Francois Pelsaert. Cambridge, 1925.
Morley, Viscount J. Recollections. 2 vols. London,
1917.
Mulla, D.F. Principles of Hindu law. 6th ed. Bombay,
1929.
Mulla, D.F. Principles of Mohamedan Law. 9th ed.
Bombay, 1929.
Nevill, H.R. Jaunpur: a gazetteer, being volume
XXVIII of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.
Allahabad, 1908.
Oaten, E.F. European travellers in India during the
fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries .... London, 1909.
O'Malley, L.S.S. Popular Hinduism; the religion of
the masses. Cambridge,
Palme Dutt, R. India today. London, 1940.
Panandikar, S.G. Industrial Labour in India. Bombay,
1933.
Pillai, P.P. India and the International Labour
Organisation. Patna, 1931
The Presidency College Magazine. Vol. XXV, no. 2.
Silver jubilee number edited by Nirmal Chandra Sen Gupta. Calcutta, 1939.
Ramachandra Rao, P.R. Decay of Indian industries.
Bombay, 1935.
Ramakrishna, S. Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (according
to M. a son of the Lord and disciple). 2 vols. Madras, 1930.
Ranchhoddas, R. and Thakore, D.K. The Indian penal
code. 11th ed. Bombay, 1926.
Ranchhoddas, R. and Thakore, D.K. The law of
evidence; the Indian Evidence Act (I of 1872). 4th ed. Bombay, 1926.
Rangaswami Aiyangar, R.V. Some trends of modern
public finance with reference to India. Madras, 1936.
Rathbone, E.F. Child marriage: the Indian Minotaur;
an object lesson from the past to the future. London, 1934.
Rawlinson, H.G., ed. A garland of Indian poetry.
London, 1946.
Ray, P.C. Life and experiences of a Bengali chemist.
Calcutta, 1932.
Read, M. From field to factory; an introductory
study of the Indian peasant turned factory hand. London, 1927.
The Reserve Bank of India Act. Act 12 of 1934 with
notes and comments by A. Ramaiya. Madras, 1934.
Rhys Davids, T.W. Buddhist India. London, 1916.
Ridley, G. India; what now and what next? London,
1942.
Rolland, R. La vie de Ramakrishna. Paris, 1929.
Roy, R. Rammohun. English works . . . with an
English translation of Tuhfatul Muwahhiddin. Allahabad, 1906.
Roy, R. Rammohun. Translation of the Cena Upanishad;
one of the chapters of the Sama Veda .... Calcutta, 1816.
Roy, R. Rammohun. Translation of the Ishopanishad;
one of the chapters of the Yajur Veda .... Calcutta, 1816.
Rushbrook-Williams, L.F. An empire builder of the sixteenth
century; a summary account of the political career of Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad
surnamed Babur. London, 1918.
Rushbrook-Williams, L.F. 'India; an essay
introductory to twelve broadcast talks, Fridays, April 10 - June 26.' London,
n.d.
Sarkar, J. The India of Aurangzib (topography,
statistics and roads) compared with the India of Akbar with extracts from the
'Khulasatu-T-Tawarikh' and the 'Chahar Gulshan' translated and annotated.
Calcutta, 1901.
Sastri, P.S. Ramtanu Lahiri, Brahman and reformer; a
history of the renaissance in Bengal. Edited by Sir Roper Lethbridge. London,
1907.
Saunders, K. A pageant of Asia; a study of three
civilizations. London, 19
Saunders, K. ed. The heart of Buddhism; being an
anthology of Buddhist verse. London, 1915.
Sen, P.K. From punishment to prevention. London,
1932.
Sen, P.K. The law of monopolies in British India.
Calcutta, 1922.
Singh, S. The divine master; a study of the life and
teachings of Sri Guru Nanak Dev. Lahore, 1930.
Strickland, C.F. The progress of rural welfare in
India, 1934. London, 1934.
Sabbu Rao, N.S. Some aspects of economic planning.
Bangalore, 1935.
Tagore, M.D. Autobiography. Translated from the
original Bengali by S. Tagore and I. Devi. London, 1914.
Thompson, E.J. Rabindranath Tagore, his life and work.
Calcutta, 1921.
Thompson, E.J. and Spencer, A.M. eds. Bengali
religious lyrics. Sakta, selected and translated .... Calcutta, 1923.
Trevelyan, E.J. Hindu law as administered in British
India. 2nd ed. rev. Calcutta, 1917.
Trevelyan, C.O. The competition wallah. 2nd ed.
London, 1866.
Tulsi Das. The Ramayana of Tulsi Das. Translated
from the original Hindi by F.S. Growse. vol. 1. 5th ed. Cawnpore, 1891.
Tyabji, F.B. Principles of Muhammadan law; an essay
at a complete statement the personal law applicable to Muslims in British
India. 2nd ed. Calcutta; 1919.
University Education Committee. Report. December
1948 - August 1949. Delhi, 1950
Urquhart, M.M. Women of Bengal; a study of the Hindu
Pardanasins of Calcutta 2nd ed. Calcutta, 1926.
Vakil, K.H. At Ajanta. Bombay, 1929.
Varma, P. Crime, criminal and convict. Agra, 1963.
Papers of Baron Chorley of Kendal, relating to Lord Chorley's
membership of the Parliamentary Delegation to India,
1946.
Given by the Hon. Mrs G. Goodwin.
22 December and 24 December 1945. From the India
Office. Xeroxed memorandum issued by the Bureau of Public Information,
Government of India, for the benefit of the Parliamentary Delegation, in form
of brief precis of comments by Indian Leaders to the Press indicative of their
attitudes to the Delegation. The leaders in question are: Pandit Nehru,
Purshottam Das Tandon and Sir Maharaj Singh.
22 December 1945. Information Department, India
Office. Xeroxed note for Delegation members with precis of comments made in
Indian newspapers about the proposed Parliamentary Delegation.
Official list of Guest Rooms in The Viceroy's House,
New Delhi for the period from 5-7 January 1946.
Official list, headed New Delhi, 1945-46, of
telephone numbers of personnel working in Viceroy House, also other important
numbers.
Xeroxed sheet of notes: brief biographies of people
attending the Delegation.
List of guests invited to an unspecified 'At Home',
held on 7 January 1946.
Newspaper cutting from Hindustan Times, 9 January
1946; a photograph of the British Parliamentary Delegation to Delhi.
A memorandum to Lord Chorley detailing the
engagements for 8 January 1946.
Second page of above memorandum.
A typed list giving engagements on 10 January 1946.
A typed list of engagements for 11 January 1946.
Handwritten note, unsigned, on talk given by the
Viceroy.
Typed list, headed The Lord Chorley of Kendal,
giving brief biographies of guests attending a party held on 7 January 1946.
Invitation to Lord Chorley to a party on 12 January
1946 given by Sir Bertrand and Lady Glancy.
Seating plan of Dinner given at Government House,
Peshawar on 15 January 1946.
Typed list, headed 18 January 1946 noting
appointments on that day with leading Indian personalities in various fields.
Timetable for Parliamentary Delegation for 18 and 19
January 1946.
Dinner list, dated 18 January 1946 held at
Government House.
List compiled by Parliamentary Delegation of people
interviewed in Mysore on 21 January 1946; list ranges from local dignitaries to
businessmen and journalists.
Biographical list of officials in Mysore State.
Timetable of events in Madras on 25 January 1946.
Envelope addressed to Lord Chorley, memo on back
mentions a Dr Ananda Coomarasura.
Newspaper cutting from The Mail, 24 January 1946,
deals with the Delegations meeting with Gandhi.
Tentative programme for weekend in Calcutta from
25-28 January 1946.
A list, giving brief biographies, of leading
non-officials representing different interests in Bengal who may be of interest
to, or interested in, the Delegation.
Dinner plan for 4 February 1946 attended by the
Viceroy and members of the Delegation. (2 copies).
Portion of notepad which makes references to
terrorist activities in Bengal, mentions problems of running down the I.C.S.
and refers to Trade Unions.
Letter, dated 12 Nov 1949, from Colin
Cleghorn to the Secretary of the Calcutta Light Horse Club donating three hog
spears of former members, including one belonging to John Alexander Anderson (b
c1848), co-founder of the firm Anderson Wright & Co 1872, and giving brief
biographical sketch of Anderson.
1 folio
1949 - 1949
Tape recording of interview, given 1984, by
Monica Clough on her life as a tea planter's daughter in Travancore in the
1920s and 1930s, and as the wife of a businessman in Calcutta in the 1940s.
2 cassettes 1925 – 1947
Cork Collection: papers of Frederick
Lawrence Cork (1885-1980), colliery manager 1908-37, mining consultant 1937-46,
employed by Macneill & Company, Calcutta, including colliery quarterly
reports 1937-45, Cork's inspection reports 1937-40, and colliery plans.
63 items
1907 - 1953 View Contents
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Cotton Collection (1): papers of Sir
(Harry) Evan Auguste Cotton (1868-1939), Calcutta barrister, President, Bengal
Legislative Council 1922-25, comprising notes and draft articles on Indian
history and art.
62 items
1907 - 1939 View Contents
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Cotton Collection (3): papers of Sir
(Harry) Evan Auguste Cotton (1868-1939), Calcutta barrister, President, Bengal
Legislative Council 1922-25, including material relating to his book `Calcutta
Old and New', paintings in Viceregal Residences, the Victoria Memorial Hall,
and the India Defence League; also family correspondence and photographs.
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(Leonard Mellor Crosfield)
Donated by Yoma Crosfield Ullman
Born in 1899, Leonard Crosfield studied at Oxford
before joining the Oxford and Bucks. Light Infantry for service in Northern
France in 1918. After the war he joined the Burmah Oil Company, for whom he
worked until his retirement in 1949 having achieved the position of Manager,
Burmah Oil Co. (India Concessions) Ltd. During his time with the BOC he served
throughout Burma and, after 1941, in North India. He retired to Britain (via
South Africa) in 1949, where he lived until his death in 1987.
The bulk of the work in cataloguing this collection
was carried out by Yoma Crosfield Ullman, Mr Crosfield's daughter, prior to its
donation to the Centre of South Asian Studies. The Centre would like to express
their gratitude to Ms Ullman for the donation and for the enormous amount of
work she has put into it.
Ms Crosfield Ullman's chronology of her father's
career and introduction to the collection are accessible by clicking one of the
links below. Full details of the photographs contained in the albums are
available by searching the database of archival photographs. Follow the link
below, click on 'Photos' and then on 'Search'. Entering 'Crosfield' as the
search term in the donor field will bring up the entire collection. Throughout
the notes and catalogue entries for this collection the initials LMC, YCU and
MEC are used to denote Leonard Mellor Crosfield, Yoma Crosfield Ullman and
Margaret Eileen Crosfield.
Introduction
Chronology
Photos database
Papers:
Box 1:
Memoir: Yoma Crosfield Ullman, 'A memoir of a
childhood in India', np, 1999, 79pp
Memoir: Margaret Eileeen Crosfield, 'Reminiscneces
of Margaret Eileen Crosfield (nee Daniel), dictated on July 14, 17 and 18,
1982', transcribed by Yoma Crosfield Ullman, np, 1982, 75 pp.
Xerox copy of letter, 17.8.1947, from LMC giving an
account of his experiences during the handover of pawer in Pakistan.
Xerox copy of undated letter from MEC to 'Mums and
Paps' giving an account of experiences during the handover of pawer in
Pakistan.
Photograph albums:
Album 1:
1918-1919 - Military service in Northern France.
Further notes containing background information to this album can be accessed
by clicking here.
Album 2a:
1921 - Voyage to Burma: Rangoon. Labelled by LMC as
'LM Crosfield, "Ednaville"'. This album shows the passage to Rangoon,
via the Suez Canal. Scenes from on board the ship and from the stops along the
way and also has scenes of LMC's early times in Rangoon. Further notes giving
background and physical information about this album can be accessed by
clicking here.
Album 2b:
1921 - Voyage to Burma: Rangoon. Largely a duplicate
of 2A, mostly without captions. For more information click here.
Album 3:
1921-1928. Burma 1921-26. Home leave in the UK,
1926. Burma 1927-28. For more information click here.
Album 4:
Burma: Rangoon and 'up-country'. This album appears
to have been compiled by LMC's parents using photographs he sent back to the UK
for them. There are few dates available in the album, although some of the
photographs are duplicates of others in the collection. For more information
click here.
Album 5:
1927-1929. Labelled by LMC: 'Chauk 1927-29' Contains
photos of oil fields, trips on river steamers, and LMC's life while stationed
in Chauk. For more information click here.
Album 6:
1929. Burma: Chauk, Yenangyaung, Pagan, Mount Popa,
Taunggyi etc. Album is labelled 'L.M. Crosfield: BOC, Nyounghla'. For more
information click here.
Album 7:
1930-1932. Burma, Chittagong, India. Domestic scenes
of Burma and Northern India. Captions are not written on all photographs and
were probably added later. For more information click here.
Album 8:
1933. Chittagong. Album contains scenes of return
trip from home leave in 1933 (during which he married Margaret Eileen Daniel)
and domestic scenes from Northern India. For more information click here.
Album 9:
1933. England, Chittagong, most of album from
Rangamati. Mostly views of lakes, elephants, boats and local markets. Also
scenes of tea gardens and tea tastings. For more information click here.
Album 10:
1933-1936. Album titled 'Chittagong 1933-36' but
also includes photographs of Akyab, Sylhet, Dawki, Guptakhal and Shillong.
Includes industrial scenes and Girl Guides pictures. For more information click
here.
Album 11:
1935. Shillong, Chittagong, Akyab, Oodaleah,
Dohazari, Rangamati, Digboi. Domestic, travelling and BOC scenes. For more
information click here.
Album 12:
1933-1936. Chittagong. Visit of Viceroy Willingdon
and more Girl Guide scenes. For more information click here.
Album 13:
1936-1939. Chittagong, England, Belgium. MEC returns
to UK to ahve a baby, LMC follows her and then travels to Belgium. Family
return to Chittagong: more domestic scenes. For more information click here.
Album 14:
1939-1943. Burma, India. Album probably compiled in
England retrospectively - chronology is not accurate. For more information
click here.
Album 15:
1940-1944. Burma, India. Scenes from Rangoon and
Digboi - domestic, school and guiding scenes. Album also includes photographs of
Agra, Darjeeling, Taxilla, Shillong and Peshawar. For more information click
here.
Album 16:
1944-1946. Mostly Calcutta and Darjeeling. Domestic
scenes, portraits and guiding. For more information click here.
Album 17:
1921-1928. Burma 1921-26. Home leave in the UK,
1926. Burma 1927-28. For more information click here.
(Patrick Henry Cummins, I.M.S.)
Given by Mrs. C.E. Cummins
N.W.F.P., Assam, Burma, Bengal: 1925-1945
Summary of Service of and Confidential Reports on
Patrick Henry Cummins, I.M.S. (3 sheets).
Map of Assam.
Government Officers' Diary for 1942 when in No. 1
Field Ambulance Unit in Burma.
Diary for 1943-44 Burma.
Notebook of jottings: medical notes, etc.
10 Large Photographs:
1927, Poona; I.M.S. Officers on training course,
P.H. Cummins and others.
1929, Cannanore; 12th Malabar Battalion Madras
Pioneers; Gopal & Co.
1930, G.M.H. Landikotal, Khyber Pass; hockey team;
S.M. Shaw.
1930/31, Razmak, barracks with hills in, background.
1934, Rawalpindi; No.l Indian Hospital Corps Hockey
team; M.R. Sharma.
1934, Rawalpindi; Staff of I.M.H. M. T.
1935, Gauhati, Assam; Medical and Jail staff;
Ghoshal Brothers.
1936, Imphal; Medical Staff; J. Purkayastha.
1943, Hoshiapur, Punjab; No.l Burma Field Ambulance
Unit.
1945, Dacca, Bengal, Nursing Training Wing, 77,
Indian General Hospital; O.C. Lt. Col. P.H. Cummins.
Papers of David Keith Cunnison (1881-1972),
Secretary, Bengal Chambers of Commerce c1906-33, dealing mostly with Bengal
Chamber of Commerce; also letters home to his mother
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Datta Collection: papers of Surendra Kumar
Datta (1878-1942), lecturer in history and biology 1909-14, and Principal
1932-42, Forman Christian College; YMCA national secretary for India, Burma and
Ceylon 1919-27 and active in international YMCA thereafter; representative of
Indian Christians in Indian Legislative Assembly 1924-26 and at Round Table
Conference 1931; also papers of other members of his family.
93 items
1884 - 1953 View Contents
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Given by Mrs. D. Davey
Bombay Presidency 1877-1944. Bengal - Central
Provinces
Envelope 1
Photographs taken by Mrs. Davey's grandfather, Major
General J.R. Strutt, 3rd Bombay Light Infantry:
5 photographs of famine in Kollapore, 1877. Letter
of 31 July, 1877, from Kollapore, published in the Standard. Written by Mrs.
Strutt to her sister, about plight of the people. Asks her to get up a
subscription. Second newspaper cutting refers to this letter.
On reverse, 2 untitled photographs of bungalow and
garden. (Ahmadabad?).
13 photographs of Ahmadabad - bungalows, group
photographs, camp, temples. (c.1873).
14 miscellaneous photographs of sights in Baroda,
Secundra Bagh, Delhi, Lucknow. 1 group photo, named. (1870's).
Envelope 2
Photographs taken by Mrs. Davey's uncle, Lt. Colonel
R.D.T. Alexander, D.S.O., O.B.E., T.D.; a Civil Engineer on the Indian
railways, and a keen shot:
Photographs of railway construction, engineers and construction
teams.
2-5 Chambal Bridge, 1906.
6-21 Kali Sind Line (not all photographs labelled).
Includes photo of a railway station.
22, 25, 26 1906, Nagda Mutter State Railway.
23, 27. Kotah, 1908-9, Engineers
28-34 Power houses, power divisions, Goliath left
bank (Sara bridge construction?), 1911-13.
35 Fancy dress ball, 1912.
36-46 Construction and opening of Sara Bridge. Copy
of congratulatory telegram from President of Railway Board, Sir T.R. Wynne, to
R.R. Gales, Engineer-in-Chief, Lower Ganges Bridge, on opening of first span
and service girder of Sara bridge, 20 June, 1913.
Envelope 3
1-2 Scenes on Bengal Nagpur Railway 1927.
3-6 Tel River Bridge, opened 29 September 1931, by
R.D.T. Alexander.
Miscellaneous group photographs of railway
employees, rifle-teams.
1 Oudh and Rohilkhund Railway camp, Delhi Durbar,
1911.
3 Projects branch, office of the Railway Board,
Simla, 23 September, 1921. (On reverse, f 4-11, unlabelled photographs of boats
etc.)
12-14 Groups of Chief Engineers (including R.D.T.
Alexander), 1925, 1927, 1928.
15-17 Lord Irwin in Calcutta, 1930
18 Lt. Colonel and Mrs. Alexander at farewell
gathering on his retirement from post of Chief Engineer, Bengal Nagpur Railway,
February 1932.
19-24 India rifle team photographs. (Including
R.D.T. Alexander) 1929-39.
Box 4
Papers of R.D.T. Alexander:
Miscellaneous labelled snapshots of India, 1920-32.
Official invitation to the Delhi Durbar, 1911.
Official invitation to an afternoon party in the
Delhi Fort, 13 December, 1911.
Letter of congratulation from Projects Branch of the
Railway Board's Office, on his appointment as Chief Engineer, Bengal Nagpur
Railway. 22 September, 1921.
4 farewell addresses on Mr. Alexander's retirement
in 1932.
Book of newspaper cuttings of letters, reviews, etc.
concerning Some signposts to Shikar by R.D.T. Alexander and A. Martin-Leake.
Loose photo of tusks.
Some Engineering Experiences East of Suez, by R.D.T.
Alexander. Thirteenth anniversary address, delivered at the Institution of
Civil Engineers on 16 March, 1934.
Memoir of Miss Dorothy Strutt, written March 1972.
(Mrs. W.A.D. Davey). TS note on her work as Staff Captain in the War Office.
Sent to New Delhi 1944. Worked with Brigadier Desmond Young, on press releases.
(3pp).
Four very large photographs unnamed and undated, but
possibly of the construction of the Chambal Bridge.
Davies Collection: papers and
correspondence of Vincent Ellis Davies (b 1903), Indian Civil Service, Bihar
and Orissa 1926-47, Private Secretary to Governor of Orissa 1941-44, including
tour diaries 1936-39 as Deputy Commissioner, Santal Parganas, tour programmes
1941-44 of the Governor of Orissa, a diary of life in Muzaffarpur District
after independence Jan-Jun 1948, and memoirs of his career 1925-47.
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`We were survivors': the memoirs,
1914-1940s, of Veronica Cara Downing (nee Westmacott) (b 1914), including a
record of her family history, her childhood in India and her life in Assam as
the wife of a tea planter.
1 portfolio 1914 - 1945
These are the memoirs of four expatriate members of
the management staff of the Dunlop factory at Sahaganj, District Hooghly, West
Bengal, covering the years 1936-1965 and written in 1987. The four are John
Bawcutt, D.J. Birch, F.G.W. Jackson and David Osborne. A note about W.H.
Burdock, a fifth member of the staff who died some years ago, is written by
John Bawcutt.
The five papers describe the fortunes of the Dunlop
Tyre Company in India from its beginnings in 1936 until the mid 1960s. Its
expansion to Ambattur in Madras in 1959 is referred to. The Company was to
continue for another 15 years, until the mid 1980s, when it was sold to a local
conglomerate.
The pros and cons of the job are discussed. The
founding of trades unions and the difficulties in the supply of raw materials
are referred to. Social life for management staff, welfare projects for
workers, accommodation for management and workers are described. The process of
Indianization in management is also discussed.
Notes on tyre manufacture are attached to John
Bawcutt's paper and a note on the environs of Sahaganj, 'The Hooghly' is
attached to David Osborne's paper.
Given by Miss A. Ewing.
India General: 1919-1954
A collection of interview notes, tape recordings and
answers to a questionnaire sent out by Miss Ewing from I.C.S. officers, for her
thesis written in 1978 entitled, "Survey of former officers of the Indian
Civil Service between 1919-1935."
There are 17 transcripts of interviews, 32 written
answers, in correspondence, to the questionnaire.
See also: Tape-recordings. Restricted ? see
correspondence.
Interview notes:
S. M. Burke: 1931-1947 Asst Commr, Punjab 1931. 3pp.
D. G. Chambers: 1931-1947 Asst Collr, Bombay 1931.
2pp.
William Christie 1920-1947 Mag. and Collr, U.P.
1933. 4pp.
B.A.C. Cook: 1929-1947 Under Secty, Fin. Dept, G. of
India 1938. 3pp.
(See also No.22 Questionnaire)
G. G. Drewe: 1928-1947 Asst Collr, Bombay 1932. 3pp.
W. W. Georgeson: 1930-1950 Jt Mag. and Sub-Collr,
Madras. 2pp.
H.A.C. Gill: 1929-1947 Dep. Secty, Fin. Dept, G. of
India 1938. 3pp.
J.P.L. Gwynn: 1938-1955 Asst Collr and Mag., Madras.
2pp.
F. M. Innes: 1926-1947 Dep. Cmmsnr, Punjab 1932.
3pp.
L. W. Jardine: 1921-1947 Resident for Baroda and
Gujerat States 1943. 4pp.
R. H. Johnston: 1923-1947 Mag. and Collr, U.P. 1928
and Bengal 1938. 2pp.
A. H. Kemp: 1928-1947 Jt Mag. and Dep. Collr, Bihar
1928. 2pp.
A.R.H. Macdonald: 1931-1947 Dep. Commr, Assam 1942.
2pp.
P. J. Pringle: 1933-1947 Jt Mag. and Dep. Collr,
Bengal. 2pp.
M. H. Rossington: 1932-1947 Dep. Commr, Burma 1939.
3pp.
W.H. Saumarez Smith: 1934-1947 Under-Secty, Home
Dept, Bengal 1939. 7pp.
C.F.V. Williams: 1923-1947 Sub-Collr and Jt Mag.,
Madras 1928. 2pp.
Questionnaire Correspondence:
E.G.S. Apedaile: 1932-1947 Dep. Commr, Burma 1938.
2pp
R.F.S. Baylis: 1927-1947 Jt Mag., U.P. 1929. 4pp
D. A. Bryan: 1933-1947 Asst Commr, Punjab. 2pp
Sir Charles Clee 1919-1947 Secty; Fin. Dept, Govt.
of Sind 1937. 3pp
B.C.A. Cook 1922-1947 Under-Secty, Fin. Dept, G. of
India. 2pp
(See also No.4 in 'Interview Notes')
F. G. Cracknell: 1932-1947 Jt Mag., U.P. 6pp.
E. G. Creek: 1933-1948 Jt Mag, and Dep. Collr,
Bengal. 5pp.
F. N. Crofts: 1929-1947 District and Sessions Judge,
U.P. 3pp.
B. W. Day: 1930-1947 Sub. Collr, Madras. 3pp.
B. W. Day: 1930-1947 Sub. Collr, Madras. 7pp.
28 & 29. A. E. Drake: 1931-1947 Asst Mag., and
Collr, Bihar. Also political service. 7pp.
A.G.F. Farquhar: 1927-1947 Dep. Commr, C.P. 17pp
R. Galletti: 1931-1947 Jt Sec. Board of Revenue,
Madras. 8pp.
Sir Leslie Glass: 1934-1947 Ass. Commr, Burma. 2pp.
J. S. Hardman: 1929-1947 Sec. Fin. Dept, Bihar.
12pp.
E. S. Hyde: 1928-1948 Asst Commr, C.P. 1pp.
R.S.T. John: 1932-1947 Jt Mag. and Dep. Collr,
Bengal. 2pp.
J. Johnston: 1927-1947 Mag. and Collr, U.P. 4pp.
W. G. Kennedy: 1931-1947 Asst Commr, Punjab. 7pp.
A. S. Larkin: 1921-1947 Mag. and Collr, Bengal. 6pp.
Sir Robert Latimer: 1935-1947 Asst Commr, Punjab.
11pp.
J. L. Llewellyn: 1929-1947 QJt Mag. and Dep. Collr,
Bengal. 15pp.
R. E. McGuire: 1926-1947 Dep. Commr, Burma. 2pp.
F.W.A. Morris: 1930-1954 Jt Mag. and Sub-Collr,
Madras. 3pp.
A. J. Platt: 1932-1947 Pte Sec. to Governor of
Madras. 2pp.
W. H. Pridmore: 1934-1947 Jt Mag. and Collr, U.P.
4pp.
P. W. Radice: 1931-1948 Jt Mag., U.P. 1pp.
N. Storr: 1930-1947 Dist. and Sess. Judge, U.P, 1pp.
M. M. Stuart: 1927-1947 Jt Mag. and Collr, Bengal.
2pp.
A.R.C. Westlake: 1921-1947 Collr, Madras. 5pp.
A. A. Williams: 1932-1947 Asst Commr, Punjab. 4pp.
Copy of letter to C.M. Kerr in Cawnpore dated 1
September 1944 from D. C. Das? requesting his views on the work, and the
qualities needed, by military officers going into civil employment.
Miss Ewing's Appendix I to her thesis, the
questionnaire, and a list of those it was sent to. 7pp. 210pp.
52 and 53. ëThe Indian Civil. Service 1858-1947í. An
article written for History Today, June 1982, by Anne
Ewing. TS and xerox of printed article. Bibliography
in TS copy.
TS of Appendix I. Survey of former officers of the
Indian Civil Service. Summer 1978. pp.386-392. From Miss A. Ewing's Ph.D.
thesis for the University of Cambridge.
`Just My Luck or Reminiscences': memoir,
dated 1979, by Philip Edmund Stanley Finney (b 1904) of his career in the
Indian Police, Bengal. Subsequently published as 'Just My Luck: Memoirs of a
Police Officer of the Raj' (Dhaka, 2000).
1 portfolio 1924 - 1947
Philip E.S. Finney, Indian Police Service.
Bengal, Burma: 1924 - 1947.
BOX I
Collection of photostat copies of entry into the
Police Service, Articles of Agreement, biography as in 'History of Services',
warrant to join army; Government Servants' Conduct Rules 1919. 11pp.
Barrackpore 1927 ? 30. Photostat copies of letters
of merit, newspaper cuttings, letter of congratulation and thanks from Sir John
Simon acknowledging his work as D.C. of Police, Calcutta. 28pp.
Buxa Duars Detention Camp 1930 ? 31. Correspondence
relating to office of Superintendant. 2pp.
Deoli Jail 1932 ? 34. Copies of letters and other
papers relating to office as Superintendant of the detention camp in Deoli.
46pp.
Papers concerning material for history of the Indian
Police by Sir Percival Griffiths under the title To guard my People published
in 1971.
Note giving his views, which were asked for by the
Governor of Bengal on the political impasse in January 1946. 8pp.
Paper concerning the Superior Civil Services Rules
1934, related to Finney. 6pp.
File marked 'Correspondence - Indian Coronation
Contingent 1937'. 66 Officers of the Indian Police attended the Coronation. Correspondence
between Finney, Sir Horace Williamson and Sir John Ewart on the difficulties,
complaints etc., encountered.. 51pp.
File marked 'Inspection and instruction remarks made
by P.E.S. Finney, Superintendent of Police, Rangpur on the Reserve Office on
the 27 August - 1 September 1936.' 64pp.
Papers concerned with Inspection remarks made by
Finney as Superintendent of Police, Rangpur in September 1936. 14pp. Also
papers for the office Order Book - 4pp. and Standing Order No.33 of 1936
concerning detenu letters. 3pp.
Copy of 'Notes for the Additional Superintendent
Headquarters, Mymensingh' March 1936. 18pp. Notes intended as guidance for his
predecessor outlining the policy adopted and the methods to translate it into
effect.
Folder issued by Governor of Bengal 'General Police
arrangements in connection with the visit of His Excellency the Governor of
Bengal to Rangpur' 31 October - 2 November 1936. 131pp.
Xerox copy. TS Memoir entitled Just my Luck, or
Reminiscences by P.E.S. Finney, late Indian Police Service. Illustrated by
photographs. 166pp.
Storrs Fox Collection: papers of Rev Edwin
Aubrey Storrs Fox (1888-1975), Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment from 1916,
including letters home and over 600 sermons, many in both early and rewritten
form.
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Papers of Ernest Walter Geils (1885-1971),
Indian Posts and Telegraphs Dept 1900-40, Chief Superintendent Central
Telegraph Office, Calcutta 1938-40, concerning his career.
1 volume; 1 mounted folio 1932 - 1948
Given by Mrs H. Ghoshal. Bengal 1940-47.
Xerox of typescript. 9 pp.
This short memoir, entitled 'The Memsahib I Could
Never Be', describes the author's personal transition from the life of a
university student and member of a middle-class Bengali family associated with
the 1930s struggle for Independence to her life as wife of a subdivisional
I.C.S. officer in Patuakhali, District Barisal. Visits to District Headquarters
introduced her to the company of British and Indian Memsahibs and left her
disenchanted with the social assumptions of the Raj. Transfer to Calcutta
enabled her to see changes brought about by the War, the 1943 Famine and,
finally, Independence. She and her family, Hindus, were uprooted from their
homeland by the Partition of Bengal.
Given by Brigadier F.R.L. Goadby (Rajputana Rifles)
O.B.E. Brigadier F.L.R. Goadby served in the Royal Engineers from 1918 and the Royal
Corps of Signals from 1921. In 1926 he joined the Indian Army serving in the
2/3rd Silch Pioneers. During 1933 he transferred to the 1st Battalion, 6th
Rajputana Rifles. Later in his career he served in Southern Command, India;
Simla; Calcutta; Bihar; and Bombay.
India General: 1924-1978
BOX I
MS book bound: Scraps from Ceylon illustrating the
full dress costumes of its inhabitants, their religious observances and the
principal industries (foreign and native) by John Leonard Ralenberg Van Dort.
Colombo, Ceylon, 1894.
The book consists of handwritten copperplate text in
blue ink on left hand page, and illustrations on the right hand page.
There are 15 pages of illustrations depicting things
seen on the island - people, places, crafts, etc. The small pictures are chalk
and paint, and are beautifully executed and very charming. The text is
explanatory.
There is a letter inside the book dated 23 March
1911 from the daughter of J.L.R. van Dort (Grace van Dort), relating to
publication.
1978 Visitors` Book, Colaba House.
Papers found in book given by Brigadier Goadby:
l and 2 Two letters from the Secretary of the United
Services Institution for India, Simla about projected trip to Sikkim.
Article: 'A nature-lover's paradise', by Dorothy L.
Tanner.
4pp. scribbled notes.
a-g Various official papers connected with entry,
touring, etc. in Sikkim and Tibet.
6. and 7 Maps.
a.& b. Two account books, containing bills etc.
1939-41
Newspaper cutting - profile of Brigadier Goadby, The
Oxford Times, 1956.
a.& b. Christmas cards.
42 letters, from Brigadier Goadby and Mrs. Goadby to
his mother from 5 January 1941 to 1 December 1945 and March/April 1949. Poona,
Delhi, Bangalore, H.Q. India Command, Sikkhim, S.E.A.C., Rawalpindi, etc. The
letters relate to life during the war as far as censorship allowed. 87pp. and
envelopes.
Lists of birds seen in various. parts of India
1940-48: Carignano, Delhi, Taxila, Simla Hills, Bangalore, Comilla, E. Bengal,
Nilgiris, Krishnarajsagar, Sikkhim, Calcutta:, Dinapore, Panagarh, Fort
William, Kutch. 2pp.
Printed extract (pp.69-91) from the "Gazette of
India" Extraordinary. Army Dept. 27 February 1924, being a despatch by
H.E. General Lord Rawlinson of Trent, C. in C. India on the operations of the
Waziristan Force 1 January 1922-22 April 1923.
Another copy (pp.401-418) 18 November 1924.
Special Station Orders by Lt. Col. A.S. Auret,
Commanding Razani Line, Razani 1 July 1929. 12pp.
TS page on History of Fort William.
Newspaper photograph of Lord Wavell after the Bihar disturbances;
Brigadier Goadby in photograph 13 November 1946.
H.Q. Bombay Sub-Area Location Statement, No.18 1948,
by Major Haripal Singh. Appendix A. 6pp. 7 February 1948.
Orders: All Units - Preparation of Court Martial
Cases and reference to D.J.A.G. for Pre-trial Advice. 22 April 1948. 2pp.
Handing-over notes by Major General (sic) F.R.L.
Goadby, O.B.E., Calcutta, 25 April 1948. 9pp.
Handing-over notes by Brigadier D.S. Brar, O.B.E.,
H.Q. Bombay SubArea, 3 May 1948. 9pp.
Single sheet of Times of India, Bombay, Tuesday, 23
November 1948 on the devastation of the cyclone of 20/21 November.
Handing-over notes by Brigadier F.R.L. Goadby,
Bombay, 30 December 1948. 11pp.
See : Photographs.
Additional papers given by Mrs Goadby.
BOX II
Notes on Waziriforce 1921/23. 7 ff.
Letter dated 28 June 1981. Notes on Bihar
disturbances 1946/7.4 ff.
File of papers dealing with Mr Goadby's army
service. Details of decorations, promotions, confidential reports, examination
results, 1921-48. 55 ff.
Parade No. 206, Volume 16, 22 July 1944.19 pp.
Signals Association membership card.
5 field notebooks 1926-47.
Notebook 1918: Notes on gas.
Army Publications:
Instructions on wiring, 1917.
Notes on trench warfare, 1917.
Notes on trench warfare (revised diagrams) 1917.
The division in attack, 1918.
Army orders, January 1932.
Souvenir brochure 3rd Battalion Brigade of Guards
bicentenary and reunion 1975.
Diary of visits to India by Mr Goadby in 1975, 1978
and 1984.
Given by R.A. Gopalaswami, I.C.S. (retd.) by way of
K.A. Povah, Esq., M.A.
Memoir by Mr Gopalaswami entitled: 'Administration
in India. A brief account of personal experiences during the last twenty years of
British rule and the first fifteen years of Independence'. 48 ff. Xerox of
typescript.
Mr Gopalaswami joined the Madras cadre of the Indian
Civil Service in 1927 where he rose from Assistant Collector to Joint Secretary
of the Provincial Board of Revenue. In 1940 he was transferred to the Centre
where he served as Secretary of the National Defence Council (1941),
Director-General of Civil Defence (1943), Secretary of the Famine Enquiry
Commission (1944), Joint Secretary, Agricultural Department (1945), Secretary,
Ministry of Food (1947). A noteworthy chapter in this memoir describes the work
of the Foodgrains Policy Committee in turning India into the world's most
controlled economy as far as basic food distribution was concerned.
After Independence Mr Gopalaswami served in a
variety of Central posts including Registrar-General and Census Commissioner of
India 1949-53 and work in connection with the reorganisation of the machinery
of government. As Census Commissioner he became convinced of the primacy of family
planning in India and there is an important chapter on this subject in the
memoir. In 1953 he returned to Madras where he served in a number of important
posts ending his career in 1963 as Chief Secretary to the Government of Tamil
Nadu. In the last phase of his career he was particularly satisfied with his
work in the organisation of Panchayati Raj in Madras. He continued to hold a
number of offices after Independence.
Essay by Mr Gopalaswami entitled: 'Progress of
Family Limitation in India'. Printed for restricted distribution in England,
June 1986.
In 1951, Mr Gopalaswami, as Census Commissioner,
wrote the first official paper recommending the Government of India to accept
and proclaim a national population policy with the object of limiting the rate
of growth of population. His recommendations, after much opposition, were at
length accepted and the Government of India became the first of any
nation-state in the world to proclaim a national policy of family limitation
and incorporate it in the national planning system.
Part I of this essay describes the progress of
family limitation in India up to 1986. The author first makes the point that
family limitation is aimed at, not family planning. The former sets out to
avoid births, the latter to plan births according to the convenience of the
mother. Through the evidence of unpublished data sent him over a period of many
years by the Tamil Nadu Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, he
was able to devise an Index Number of Family Limitation (I.N.F.L.) for the
purpose of registering the progress of all the Indian states in promoting
family limitation. In a series of tables he is able to show the progress
ranking in family limitation of the 14 states of India, Maharashtra showing the
greatest progress and Uttar Pradesh the least.
Part II of the essay is entitled 'How to accelerate
future progress?' The education of women and greater prosperity are seen as
keys to the question. More children does not mean more workers but more people
without work.' He compares the experience of Great Britain in the 1960s and 70s
with that of Tamil Nadu, the most advanced Indian state with regard to family
limitation. He concludes that surgical methods of contraception (i.e.
sterilization) are more effective than clinical ones.
He suggests that the various political parties in
each state should help to promote a common national programme for family
limitation by persuading eligible couples to accept the 'small family norm'. In
recognition of their help government would give, periodically, a contribution
to party funds. 27pp.
Tape recording of interview, given 1984, by
Hubert Cecil Gotts (b 1901) about his career with Cox and Co, Bankers, 1919-54,
in Bombay, Calcutta and Rangoon (Manager 1945-51), and his social life in India
and Burma. [Transcript available].
3 cassettes 1919 - 1951
Diaries, photographs, miscellaneous papers,
and copies of articles of Hubert Cecil Gotts (b 1901), illustrating his life
and career in India and Burma 1921-54, as an employee of Cox & Company in
various branches of their bank, chiefly Bombay, Calcutta and Rangoon.
2 boxes
1921 - 1981
`Brief Memoirs of a 'Box Wallah'': copy of
memoir by Lt-Cdr Brian David Hadlow (1911-81), describing his experiences of
working in Calcutta for the shipping firm Turner Morrison and Company 1933-39,
service with Calcutta Light Horse, and life as an officer of the Royal Indian
Navy Volunteer Reserve 1939-45.
1 portfolio 1939 - 1945
'The Looted Paradise': unpublished
biography, dated 1998, by Keith Haines of (William) Arthur Moore (1880-1962),
journalist, assistant editor 1924, and editor 1933-42, of the 'Statesman',
Calcutta.
1 volume
1900 - 1951
Hallett Collection: official papers and
correspondence of Sir Maurice Garnier Hallett (1883-1969), Indian Civil Service
1907-45; Secretary, Home Dept, Government of India 1932-36, Governor of Bihar
1937-39, Governor of United Provinces 1939-45.
73 items
1935 - 1945 View Contents
List
Papers and photographs of Norman D Harris,
ICI (India) 1927-58, Company Chairman 1950-57, including three copies of
`Gallop', dated 1944-46, the Journal of the Calcutta Light Horse, and
miscellaneous material relating to business in Bengal.
1 portfolio; 20 photos 1915 - 1958
`An account of his life', by Sir Alan
Gerald Russell Henderson (1886-1963), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1910-46;
District and Sessions Judge 1921-32; Secretary, Judicial Dept, Government of
Bengal 1932-33; Judge of the Calcutta High Court 1933-46.
1 portfolio 1886 - 1961
Templewood Collection: correspondence and
papers of Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount Templewood (1880-1959) as
Secretary of State for India 1931-35, with other papers on Indian affairs.
87 items
1931 - 1954 View Contents
List
Diaries, miscellaneous papers, and
memorabilia of Lt-Col (George Norman) Patrick Hodder (b 1903); Assistant, James
Finlay & Co. Ltd, Assam 1923-25; Manager, Midnapore Zamindari Co. Ltd,
Bengal 1925-37; Manager, Anderson Wright & Co. Ltd; wartime service in
Supply Dept, GHQ, India; later Chief Executive, East India Clinic and European
Hospitals Association, Calcutta.
110 items
1915 - 1987 View Contents
List
Given by Mr. E.W. Holland 1975.
Bengal 1923-1947.
Memoir of Life in I.C.S. Joins 1923, posted to
Bengal. Record of first days, and first spell of duty, climate, people, work
and organization of Civil Service. S.D.O. Serampore (Hooghly Div); Barrackpore
- comment on industries and workers. Incidents and cases. D.M. of Dacca 1930.
(See paper on Terrorism in Bengal 1930-35). Notes on dyarchy and hartals.
Description. of dealing with Hindu Muslim riot.
Touring in riverine districts of- East Bengal by
Launch (Bankura). Transferred to Tippera as D.M. Notes on Maharajah of Tippera.
Able to do some constructive work at Tippera: (1) with water hyacinth. (2)
rural indebtedness - success of arbitration courts in this.
1935 Silver Jubilee celebrations at Comilla.
1936 Government of India Act: consequences and
incidents. Profile of minister, Makunda Behary Mallick.
Transferred to Finance Dept. to devise method for
levying a sales tax in Bengal - Profile of Minister, Mr. H.S. Suhrawardy.
Implementing sales-tax.
Bill passed 1941.
Dec. 1941 Viceroy pays his annual visit to Calcutta.
Viceroy's refusal to give party for poorer children. This done by Lady Mary
Herbert, wife of the Governor.
1942 Holland made Secretary in the Dept. of Public
Health and Local Govt. In charge of Civil Defence.
1942-43 eventful year in Calcutta. Income tax
evasion case. Bengali Youth in war effort. First steps taken to deal with
Calcutta beggars.
1943 Bengal famine. Insight into Government hospital
work.
1944 Profile of Mr. Casey as Governor of Bengal.
1945 Commissioner of Dacca Division. Profile of Sir
Frederick and Lady Burrows. Comments on Partition, and Independence.
1947 Chairman of Calcutta Improvement Trust.
Description of ceremony on 15 August 1947, and subsequent events at Govt.
House.
MS paper entitled Terrorism in Bengal 1930-35: a
personal reminiscence.
Memoir of time as Additional District Magistrate,
Dacca, East Bengal, when Civil Disobedience campaign was at its height.
Terrorist activities and police action. Transferred to Khulna district - civil
disobedience there. Steadfastness and loyalty of Muslims, and Bengal civil services.
Example of peaceful method of dealing with
demonstrations. Increase in murders. Khulna terrorist group preparing to murder
Mr. Holland.
Returns after leave as District Magistrate to
Bankura. Has a Gurkha battalion there whose cheerful example encourages people.
1934 transferred as D.M. of Tippera district.
Gradual change of attitude of people.
Restricted
(Sir Robert H. Hutchings, C.M.G., C.I.E., I.C.S.)
Microfilm Box 1 No. 5
TS report on the evacuation from Burma. June 1942.
Library Collection: records of the Library
of the East India Company (1801-58) and its successor the India Office Library.
456 items
1801 - 1994 View Contents
List
Indian Political Service Collection:
memoirs of some thirty-five former members of the Indian Political Service, or
their wives, describing their experiences, chiefly in the period 1920-1947, as
political officers in the Indian States, the North-West Frontier Province,
Baluchistan, or the Residencies and Consulates in the Persian Gulf.
35 items
1920 - 1947 View Contents
List
Notes and typed drafts for an unpublished
history of British rule in India by Lindsay Millais Jopling (1875-1967), Indian
Civil Service, United Provinces 1899-1925.
25 files
1875 - 1967
Brabourne Collection: papers of Michael
Herbert Rudolph Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne (1895-1939) as Governor of
Bombay 1933-37, Governor of Bengal 1937-39, and Acting Viceroy of India Jun-Oct
1938.
86 items
1933 - 1939 View Contents
List
Given by Mr Basil Labouchardičre. Indian Police
1936-47.
Roll of Indian Police officers, 1861-1947 - An
Indian Police Obituary. 9 ff. ISBN No. 0 9510582 0 7. Xerox copy of typescript.
Gives following details of 1711 officers of the
Indian Police (of rank of Assistant Superintendent and above):
Surname and initials of first names.
Honours and decorations held.
Province(s) in which served.
Years in which service began and ended.
Typescript note by Mr La Bouchardičre on 'The Indian
Police from 1861 to 1947'.
The account is in five sections as follows:
A brief history, including recruitment and training
of the service.
A Chronology of the main police events between 1861
and 1947.
Examples of the nature of the job:
Collating criminal intelligence.
Dealing with riots.
Political intelligence work.
Combating terrorism in Bengal in the 1930s.
Political events:
The Cripps Mission 1942.
The British Cabinet Mission 1946.
The Partition Plan 1947.
For Gallantry.
12pp.
Laithwaite Collection: correspondence,
papers and photographs of Sir (John) Gilbert Laithwaite (1894-1986), India and
Burma Office official 1919-47; Private Secretary to Viceroy 1936-43;
Commonwealth Relations Office 1947-59, Permanent Under- Secretary 1955-59;
Deputy Chairman 1960-64 and Director 1964-69 of Inchcape & Co. Ltd.
212 items
1916 - 1974 View Contents
List
Lakher Pioneer Mission: papers relating to
its work among the Lakher (Mara) people of the South Lushai hills, its founder
Reginald Lorrain (1880-1944), and members of his family; including letters from
his daughter Louise Marguerite Tlosai (1909-68) and her husband Albert Bruce
Lorrain-Foxall (d 1977), the latter's diaries, and translations of the bible
and other works into the Mara language by Lorrain and Lorrain-Foxall.
248 files
1905 - 1978 View Contents
List
Letters to his parents from Albrecht R von
Leyden (d 1994), Managing Director of Agfa Ltd, India, describing his daily
life and work; also articles and memorabilia.
12 items
1927 - 1967 View Contents
List
(Paul Lingeman)
Note on career in Burma and Assam oil-fields
1921-28; Chittagong, East Bengal 1929-32 where he encountered the question of
whether European clubs should admit Indian members; reason for European
aloofness; Chittagong Armoury Raid of 1930. Digboi Oilfield in Assam:
recruitment and training of workers: conditions of work; club membership; 1939
general strike; trades unions; war; 1942; Anglo-Indians, Anglo-Burmese;
retreat.
(Lady (Alan) Lloyd)
Given by Mrs. C.A. McDowall
Books presented:
Acland, C. A popular account of the manners and
customs of India. London, 1879.
Afghanistan. No. 4. Octobre-Decembre 1946.
Arnold, E. The light of Asia or the great
renunciation .... London, 1932.
Atkinson, G.F. The campaign it India, 1857-58 ....
London, 1859.
Ball, C. The history of the Indian mutiny .... 2
vols. in 7 pts. London, n.d.
Bengal. List of inscriptions on tombstones or monuments
... possessing historical or archaeological interest. Edited by C.R. Wilson.
Calcutta, 1896.
Bihar. List of pre-mutiny inscriptions in Christian
burial grounds in the Patna district. Patna, 1935.
Blechynden, K. Calcutta past and present. London,
1905.
Bombay past and present .... Bombay, 1919.
Bradley-Birt, F.B. 'Sylhet' Thackeray. London, 1911.
Brooke Elliott, C. The real Ceylon. Colombo, 1938.
Bundi. (A guide.) 1943.
Busteed, H.E. Echoes from Old Calcutta, being
chiefly reminiscences of the days of Warren Hastings, Francis and Impey.
Calcutta, 1882. (Also 4th ed. London, 1908.)
Cadell, P. ed. The Letters of Philip Meadows Taylor
to Henry Reeve. Oxford, University Press, 1947.
The Calcutta chatterbox. By the ëOldest Inhabitantí.
2 pts. Calcutta, 1918.
The Calcutta Review. No. III, October 1844.
Ceylon. List of inscriptions on tombstones and
monuments ... of historical or local interest . . . . By J. Penry Lewis.
Colombo, 1913.
Cook, T. & Co. Ltd. Ceylon: information for
visitors to the Island ... season 1938-39. Colombo, 1938?
Cooper, E. The handbook for Delhi with index and two
maps, illustrating the historic remains of Old Delhi, and the position of the
British Army before the assault in 1857 .... Lahore, 1865.
Cotton, H.E.A. Calcutta old and new .... Calcutta,
1907.
Craven, T. The new royal dictionary: English into
Hindustani and Hindustani into English. Rev. ed. Lucknow, 1911.
Delhi. Map of Delhi and vicinity .... Published
under the direction of S.G. Burrard. 1912. Scale 2 inches to 1 mile.
Dewar, D. Bygone days in India. London, 1922.
Dodwell, H. The Nabobs of Madras. London, 1926.
Dodwell, H. ed. List of marriages registered in the
Presidency of Fort St. George 1680-1800. Madras, 1916.
Douglas, J. Glimpses of old Bombay and Western
India; with other papers. London, 1900.
Early European travellers in the Nagpur Territories.
Reprinted from old records. Nagpur, 1924.
Edwardes, H.B. Life of Sir Henry-Lawrence. 3rd ed.
London, 1873.
Fernandes, B.A. A guide to the ruins of Bassein.
Bombay, Historical Society 1941.
Forbes-Mitchell, W. Reminiscences of the great
mutiny 1857-59 .... London, 1893.
Foster, E. ed. Early travels in India 1583-1619.
Oxford, University Press, 1921.
Hall, D.G.E. Europe and Burma: a study of European relations
with Burma to the annexation of Thibaw's Kingdom 1886. Oxford, University
Press, 1945.
Hastings, W. The Letters of Warren Hastings to his
wife .... Edited by S.C. Grier. London, 1905.
Hodgson, G.H. Thomas Parry; free merchant Madras
1768-1824. Madras, Bangalore, etc., 1938.
Hunter, W.W. The Thackerays in India and some
Calcutta graves. London, 1897.
Hyderabad. List of inscriptions on tombs or
monuments in H.E.H. the Nizam's dominions with biographical notes compiled with
an historical introduction by O. S. Crofton. Hyderabad-Deccan, 1941.
Hyderabad. Archaeological department. Guide to
Ajanta frescoes. Rev. ed. Hyderabad-Deccan, 1935.
India. Railway department. The handbook of India
.... 2nd ed. London, n.d.
India. Railway department. The magic of India.
Delhi, n.d.
Ireland, W.W. History of the siege of Delhi by an
officer who served there .... Edinburgh, 1861.
Jasimuddin. The field of the embroidered quilt: a
tale of two Indian villages. Translated from the Bengali poem 'Nakshi Kathar
Math' by E.M. Milford. Oxford, University Press, 1939.
Kaye, J.W. Lives of Indian officers .... 2 vols.
London, 1867.
Kipling, J.L. Beast and man in India .... London,
1921.
Lawrence, J.R. Indian embers. Oxford, 1949.
Lee, W.H. Inscriptions in the district of Puri.
Cuttack, 1898.
Love, H.D. Vestiges of Old Madras 1640-1800 .... 4
vols. London, 1913.
MacDonald, J. Memoirs of an eighteenth-century
footman ... travels (1745-1779); with an introduction by John Beresford.
London, 1927.
Madras. List of European tombs in the Tanjore
District compiled under the orders of the Collector of Tanjore. Madras, 1914.
Malden, C.H. List of burials at Madras (in St.
Mary's Cemetary) from 1851 to 1900 compiled from the register of St. Mary's
Church, Fort St. George. Mad 1905.
Maps of India. Published under the superintendence
of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, London, 1846. (12 maps in
case)
Massey, M. Recollections of Calcutta for over half a
century. Calcutta, 1918.
Morison, J.L. Lawrence of Lucknow 1806-1857; being
the life of Sir Henry Lawrence retold from his private and public papers.
London, 1934.
Moss King, R. The diary of a civilian's wife in
India 1877-1882. 2 vols. London, 1884.
Murray's handbook for travellers in India, Burma and
Ceylon, including all British India, the Portuguese and French possessions, and
the Indian States. 11th ed. London, 1924.
Newell, H.A. Lucknow (the capital of Oudh); an
illustrated guide to places of interest with history and map. 4th ed. Bombay,
n.d.
Newell, H.A. Three days at Agra: a guide to places
of interest, including Fatehpur Sikri, with history and map. Madras, 1919.
Newell, H.A. Three days at Delhi ... a guide to
places of interest with history and map. 6th ed. Bombay, 1923.
North-Western Provinces and Oudh. List of Christian
tombs and monuments of archaeological or historical interest and their
inscriptions .... Compiled and annotated by A. Fuhrer. Allahabad, 1896.
Page, J.A. Guide to the Qutb, Delhi. Calcutta, 1927.
Panckridge, H.R. A short history of the Bengal Club
(1827-1927). Calcutta, 1927.
Pearson, H. The hero of Delhi; a life of John
Nicholson, Saviour of India, and a history of his wars. London, 1939.
Penny, F. Fort St. George, Madras; a short history
of our first possession in India. London, 1900.
Punjab. Inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments
in the Punjab, N.W.F.P., Kashmir and Afghanistan; Pt. II biographical notices
of military officers others whose names appear in the inscriptions in Pt. 1.
Compiled by George William De Rhe-Philipe. Lahore, 1912.
The Rambler; a Mussoorie miscellany (with alleged
illustrations). Mussoorie, 1936.
Rankin, R. A tour in the Himalayas and beyond.
London, 1930.
Rees, L.B.R. A personal narrative of the siege of
Lucknow from its commencement to its relief by Sir Colin Campbell. 2nd ed.
London, 1858.
Register of graves in the mission, Tiretta, north
and south cemeteries in Park Street, Calcutta, with a map and alphabetical
index. Calcutta, 1900.
Reid, C. Extracts from letters and notes written
during the siege of Delhi in 1857. London, n.d.
'Rhadamanthus' A scholar in Clive Street. Calcutta,
(n.d. but after 1945).
Rice Holmes, T. A history of the Indian mutiny and
of the disturbances which accompanied it among the civil population, 5th ed.
London, 1913.
Roberts, Lord, F.S. Forty-one years in India from
subaltern to commander-in-chief. 2 vols. London, 1897.
Russell, W.H. My diary in India, in the year 1858-9.
2 vols. London, 1860.
Saksena, R.B. The European and Indo-European poets
of Urdu and Persian. Allahabad, 1943.
Sanderson, G. A guide to the buildings and gardens:
Delhi Fort. Delhi, 1937.
Sedgwick, F.R. The Indian mutiny of 1857; a sketch
of the principal military events. London, 1909.
Sharp, H. Delhi: its story and buildings. Oxford,
University Press, 1921.
Sheppard, S.I. Bombay. Bombay, Times of India Press,
1932.
Sleeman, W.H. Rambles and recollections of an Indian
official. 2 vols. London, 1844.
Smith, V.A. The Oxford student's history of India.
14th ed., revised by H.G. Rawlinson. Oxford, University Press, 1933.
Solomon, W.E.G. The women of the Ajanta caves.
Bombay, 1936.
Spear, T.G.P. Delhi: a historical sketch. Oxford,
University Press, 1937.
Spear, T.G.P. The Nabobs: a study of the social life
of the English in eighteenth century India. Oxford, University Press, 1932.
Steel, F.A. On the face of the waters. New ed.
London, n.d.
Thompson, E.J. The making of the Indian princes.
Oxford, University Press 1943.
Trotter, L.J. The life of John Nicholson soldier and
administrator based on private and hitherto unpublished documents. 2nd ed.
London, 1898.
United Service Institution of India. Journal. July
1946; January 1947; July - September, 1961.
Visitors' handbook ... of ... Galle. Ceylon, n.d.
Young, K. Delhi ? 1857; the siege, assault and
capture as given in (his) diary and correspondence .... Edited by Sir H.W.
Norman ... and Mrs. K. Young. London & Edinburgh, 1902.
Given by D.E. Lloyd Jones
C.P., Bengal, U.P., Assam, Burma: 1941 - 1975
Collection of letters sent home immediately prior to
and throughout his Indian Army Service by Major D.E. Lloyd Jones, M.C. Assam
Regiment. Throughout describes the books read; films seen, food etc. (A great
many of the letters are purely personal. Only those relating to India or Assam
are listed here. The full list is in the Centre of South Asian Studies).
BOX I
1941
Envelope date:
23 July OCTU Bulford, Wilts. Describes camp and
initial clothing and training - new army environment.
9 August Interview for Sudan Colonial Service.
No date Dunbar - further details of life and
training of an officer.
September Dunbar. Has put name down for the Indian
Army. Describes training. Refused for Sudan Service.
17 September Dunbar. Officers being weeded out.
Further training described.
n.d. Sandhurst - further details. Described
passing-out parades.
(envelope date: 30 November)
2. December Arrangements for leave at Christmas.
Japanese attacks mentioned.
1942
5 January Sandhurst - Taken turn as Cadet Company
Commander. Getting on well.
9 January Great deal of work. Night exercises. Band
Night programme enclosed.
16 January Exercises - bad. weather.
22 January Discusses pro and con of joining Indian
Army.
27 January Out on very hard exercise. Decides on
joining Indian Army.
4 February Interviewed for Indian Army. Importance
of last month at Sandhurst - exams, tests and lectures. 7 February About tests.
14 February More about military exercises etc.
10 March Accepted for Indian Army.
25 March Description of 3 day exercise and assault
course.
29 March Tropical kit. Going on 36 hour exercise.
6 May London - leaving for India.
9 May On board prior to sailing.
16 May Voyage. Details of shipboard life.
June Still at sea. Has been via the Cape. Describes
their welcome and conditions in detail. Conditions decide many officers to
return after the war to live. Return to ship - further details of life.
10 July O.T.S. Mhow. Contrast to luxury of boat and
hotel in Bombay. Describes living conditions. Studying Urdu. Prices and pay.
Feeling contrast with Wales.
25 July Cram course in Urdu described. Also first
impressions of the Indian scene - villages, shops, etc. finance; daily life.
9 August More about learning Urdu. Social life,
finances. Mentions beginning of Gandhi's Civil Disobedience Movement.
21 August Urdu exams.
29 August Sending parcels to England of rationed
goods.
19 September Describes new regiment as far as he can
with censorship restrictions.
31 October Has been on training course and going to
another. In an hotel in Calcutta. Veiled allusions to his whereabouts in the
future.
13 November In Poona on a course - recaps leave,
courses, etc., hampered through censorship. Been in jungle. Learning to be
Company Commander. Describes his orderly.
13 December Letter to his sister Carys. About
sending material etc. from India. Personal.
27 December Calcutta - Christmas described. Has been
in Shillong.
BOX II
1943
14 January Airgraph: still in Calcutta.
19 January At Saugor, at Infantry School.
26 January Describes living at Saugor.
21 February Airletter. Has qualified as a small arms
instructor. Gives his financial situation. Describes his orderly. More about
Saugor.
15-17 March Personal, but describes the
characteristics of Indian soldiers which he admires. Has been in the jungle.
Describes life in Calcutta. Encloses letter about Insurance Policy.
8 April Veiled allusions to being in bad jungle
conditions; asks for various Penguin books.
19 April Has been in Calcutta; implies has been
fighting again. In a Battle School as instructor.
29 April Has been slightly injured in explosion
during battle course.
13 May Recovered, been on endurance test. Has
command of new company. Mentions a shortage of Indian food, but has seen no
signs.
27 May On leave in Calcutta; going to Ranikhet.
2 June Ranikhet on leave. Describes the journey and
the place.
24 June End of leave; journey back to Assam to.
command D. Company; attitude towards station vendors. Learning Burmese. Remarks
on negotiations with Indian leaders.
4 July Gives news of daily military life in a camp.
10 July Hospital with ear infection.
26 July Copy of two letters to a Mr. Richards from
D.E.L.-J. about leave etc. - a synopsis of the letters home, expresses his
attitude towards shirkers.
16 August Describes some of his friends.
10 September Personal and a little about officers.
11 September Describes his former work as Education
Officer.
26 September Pathe News has been filming the area.
Hopes it will be shown.
5 October Posted back to jungle: Preparations for
Gurkha festival.
19 October In jungle: describes his orderly, a
Lushai, and the way he builds 'annexe' to his tent. Encloses newspaper cutting
of Gurkha ambush.
29 October Veiled references to a three day skirmish
- slight account of Gurkha dewali.
6 November Shooting game, and using explosive in the
rivers to catch fish to add variety to rations.
16 November Discusses plans after demobilisation.
23 November Promoted Quartermaster.
1 December Going on Animal Transport Course in
Landsdowne. Describes leave in Calcutta. Comments on Wavell as Viceroy.
Mentions famine and the photographs published by The Statesman. Encloses
programme of Garrison show at theatre. (B.E.S.A.)
9 December Animal management course in Landsdowne.
11 December Landsdowne - describes place and the
course, working with mules and ponies - learning to ride. Personal.
17 December Letter to grandfather. Mentions that he
is covering same ground as his grandfather covered.
26 December Describes Christmas.
1944
10 January Mentions famine and black market.
16 January Mentions they are totally unaffected by
the famine.
25 February Reveals he is in 14th Army on the
Indo-Burma border.
12 March Implies he has been in action.
11 April Implies has been in action of a prolonged
and heavy nature. Has lost all his personal effects.
15 April Airgraph: has been promoted Captain.
17 May Been recommended for the M.C.
30 May Personal: about deaths on service, his
engagement and M.C.
2 July Describes leave in Calcutta, and incidentally
his fighting in Assam round Kohima in which he was involved.
12 July Still in 'civilization', personal; oblique
reference to fighting.
16-28 July Airgraphs: going on leave to Puri. No
room in Puri: returned to Calcutta and spending leave in Grand Hotel.
31 July Describes leave in Calcutta. Reveals he has
been in bitter fighting for 3 months. Battalion at Jessami, Kherasom and
Kohima. Describes the men in a photograph sent home and tells of the men who
have been killed and their bravery.
14 August Mentions the fighting and casualties at
Kohima.
27 August Speaks of missionaries he has met.
2 September Been in action again. Mentions ending of
war in Europe.
19 September In action - does not think war will be
over so easily against Japanese. Mostly personal.
26 September Airgraph: mentions demobilisation plans
not applying to Indian army.
22 October Mentions lack of NAAFI in the East, and
exploitation of situation by British owned shops.
23 November Airgraph from Major Marsden assuring
D.L.J.'s parents that he was safe but in a very remote place and could not
write.
26 November Oblique description of his actions
during silence. Mentions General Slim with admiration. Mentions the memorial
stone brought by the Nagas to commemorate the fallen in the 2nd British
Division.
22 December Mentions the advance into Burma and that
he is connected with it. Letter from Jewellers attached about new regulations
for sending home jewelry.
25 December Day spent marching. Lushais sang carols
on Christmas Eve. Describes the rest of the day. They have chicken sent by
Hindu clerk. Most of villages devasted in wake of the battle.
BOX III
1945
2 January Captured a prisoner; turkey and plum
pudding dropped from the air. Still marching towards Burma.
10 January Death of C.O. His place possibly to be
taken by the 2nd in command, Mohammed Ayub Khan (later President of Pakistan).
22 January Letter about officers and Japanese, and
the advance in Burma.
13 February Has majority: the campaign a costly one.
15 February Mentions the Maharaja of Manipur and his
brother
18 February About an article in the press mentioning
the unit and him.
7 March Japanese in full retreat. Lt. Col Parsons
appointed C.O.
15 March With the 19th Indian Division under General
Rees.
29 March His unit have freed Anglo-Indians and
Anglo-Burmese interned by the Japs. Japanese have stripped the country. Gurkha
officer finds his family in Maymo starving. In the victory parade at Mandalay
Fort.
3 April Been entertaining ex-internees and
ex-refugees.
11 April Has been in action again.
18 April Major Ayub Khan transferred to old unit.
25 April Old orderly dies in hospital.
5 May Action. Personal. Rangoon fallen.
10 May V.E. day. Spent mostly in action. Does not
see the end of Jap war under 18 months.
18 May Fighting Japanese fierce resistance east of
Toungoo.
26 May Monsoon making things difficult. Describes
ruin of Burmese through the Japanese inflationary rate of exchange.
29 May Army activities from when he joined the 1st
Btn. The Assam Regt.when it was in the23rd Indian Division, covering the
withdrawal of Alexander's Army, up to the fall of Rangoon.
30 May Expresses disgust at Parliamentary talk of
improving Amenities in the East, which he considers very poor.
5 June Still in action. Personal, about conditions.
12 June Complains about no repatriation arrangements
for Indian Army. Mopping-up operations.
24 June (2 letters) Regimental 4th Birthday party
described. Each tribe did its own songs and dances.
28 June Has led a most successful action.
5 July Concern for Indian troops. Sepoys get no
family allowance. Asks for cigarettes from Welsh mission supporters instead of
temperance tracts.
12 July Still on 'mopping-up'.
19 July Mentions Wavell's talks in Simla failing
again.
31 July Demobilisation plans. Japanese war coming to
an end.
6 August Has been allotted a Japanese sword.
17 August Feelings about armistice marred by a
grenade exploding among his men. No cause for celebration, only gratitude and
remembrance.
27 August Has been ill. Personal.
13 September Personal. The Company gave a party for
the local children.
21 September Comments on Self-Government in India.
26 September Wants to be present for Dasera which he
has always missed.
2 October Effects of mepacrine on malaria.
10 October Been inspecting Jap P.O.W. camp. Been to
Gracie Fields' show.
14 October Leave assured by posting of Lushai
commissioned Officer (Captain Sailo) as 2nd-in-command, a chieftain class.
Dasera ceremony of goat-head decapitation taken place at start of festival, a
week of celebration.
18 October Dasera ending. Going on leave to Ranikhet.
Mentions inflated prices in Bengal, and the starving poor. Plans for life after
demobilisation.
1 November Ranikhet: describes leave.
14 November Goes to Cawnpore at end of leave via Lucknow,
where there is 'hartal' in sympathy with I.N.A. trials. Remarks on I.N.A.
21 November Back in Calcutta. Seeing Test Match:
Australians v East Zone.
25 November Comments on Calcutta disturbances.
Volunteers to command a Company of British military personnel to keep order.
Feels the grievances of striking Corporation workers just. Cricket resumed.
14 December Back with unit. Sails to Rangoon Going
with unit to Kalaw. Describes General Rees' farewell parade.
19 December Chasing dacoits.
22 December Christmas programme.
1946
10 January Journey to Kalaw with 130 men, 120
P.O.W.'s and stores. Describes making Kalaw camp comfortable. Release news.
20 January Still preparing the camp-site. High
opinion of Lushai Christians.
26 January Move down to Meiktila in plains.
31 January Hints at military changes in Burma. Gives
some accounts of the fighting he has been in.
6 February Packing to leave Kalaw. Japanese Colonel
thanks him. Is given a Lushai shawl.
2 March News they are returning to the hills before
the monsoon. Mentions Indian Naval mutiny.
19 March Back to Maymo - best hill station in Burma.
Expensive, due to inflation.
25 March May be released in September. Gives
description of his tent ready for monsoon.
21 April Tribal dancing on Good Friday.
28 April Says that conditions in Beyond the Chindwin
are what his Battalion has been fighting in. (Book by Claud Wingate).
12 May Helping police in raids and arrests in remote
areas. People not seen troops before.
23 May As above, arrangements for leaving army.
30 May Has been helping police to deal with crime in
Upper and Lower Chindwin. Describes mopping-up process. Goes round with D.S.P.
who is a Shan who shows him great kindness.
7 June Back in Maymo, preparing for General's visit.
News that he is coming home, probably in August.
16 June About going home, having turned down
invitation to extend service for six months by commanding Jungle Warfare School
in Burma.
14 July About returning. Fattening a pig for a
farewell party to his Company.
31 July Has orders to leave for Rangoon. Gives
details of what has to be done before leaving. (page missing).
Miscellaneous collection of undated letters, notes
etc. from collection (10 items).
BOX IV
Collection of newsletters and other items relating
to the Assam Regiment from 1946 onwards.
Assam Regimental Newsletter written from the lst
Battalion. The Assam Regiment in Shillong.
Christmas 1946 by Lt. Col. Hugh Parsons
March 3, 1947 by Captain Peter Steyn
May 1947 by Lt. Col. Hugh Parsons
Christmas 1947 by D.H. Mappin.
Copy of The Rhino: Silver Jubilee Number of the
Assam Regiment's publication. (1941-1966).
Photograph of Memorial Tablet to Lt. Col. W.F.
Brown, D.S.O., O.B.E., Commandant of lst Battalion Assam Regiment, in the
parish church at Whittlesey. Unveiled 1950.
13 December 1947 Preliminary letter from D.E.L.J.
about Reunions.
Assam Regiment Re-Union Club.
Newsletter No.l, December 1948 (written by D.E.L.J.)
Appendix 1: With the Second Battalion, N.W. Frontier
and Ambala 1946-47, by Lewis Collinson. 4pp.
Conditions and attitudes of Pathans towards Assam
Regiment in 1946-47; tensions, incidents. Description of terrible plight of
refugees seen during journey to Ambala. State of refugee camps. Attitude of the
men of the Assam Regiment.
Newsletter No.2, June 1949.
Appendix 2:
ëFrom a Subaltern's Diaryí by G. Mackenzie. Short
memoir of December 1941 - assembling and training new recruits at Digboi.
ëIn Burma 1947í by Peter Steyn. Short memoir of the
lst Battalion's anti-dacoit operation in Mandalay.
Newsletter No.3 10 December 1949
Newsletter No.4 1 May 1950
Newsletter No.5 2 December 1950
Appendix 3:
ëDacoit operations in Burma, 1946í, by Peter Steyn.
Anecdotes of the Battalion in Burma.
Newsletter No.6 18 May 1951
Appendix 4:
ëWith the 2nd at Ranipetí by R.E. Jenks. Incident of
camp flooding.
Newsletter No.7 December 1951.
Mentions collection of photographs of the Naga Hills
compiled by Mr. Kiernan (over 500) which he wished to increase and complete.
Newsletter No.8 17 May 1952
Appendix 5:
ëIncident during Independence arrangements in
Sylhetí by J.S. Collicut.
Newsletter No.9 December 1952.
Contains account of returning to Assam as a
tea-planter by Peter Steyn, 1952. Conditions in Bombay, Calcutta and from the tea-garden
in Assam. Comments on Nehru, Naga situation and state of Assam.
Also included in a newspaper cutting about
Commission of Inquiry appointed in October 1952 to inquire into outbreak of
disorder in Kohima.
Appendix 6:
ëAccount of Delhi after August 15, 1947 during the
fightingí. (Description of the refugee Camp at Humayan's Tomb controlled by J.
Walmesley, (q.v.) Lady Arthur Smith, Mrs. B.K. Nehru and Bishop Mukerjee.
Psychological attitudes.
ëDiseaseí, by Peter Steyn. Written, January 1948.
Appendix 7:
A brief article on the Tribal Areas of Assam: The
Autonomous Districts, the N.E. Frontier Agency, and Government Development
Projects, by Thenphunga Sailo.
Newsletter No.10 May 1953
Newsletter No.11 November 1953
Account by Peter Steyn of the changes which had
taken place in Digboi in the ten years since the lst Battalion was there. Also
account of the changes in the Abor district in 1950 due to the earthquake:
Missionaries and Naga troubles..
Newsletter No. 12 May 1954
Account of Shillong newspaper of the History and
achievements of the Assam Regiment at the unveiling of their War Memorial in
Shillong. The writer, D. Lloyd Jones, mentions his trek in 1943 with Gyles
Mackrell - quotation from The Daily Telegraph, 24 February 1954 about his rescue
work for refugees in the Chaukan Pass. (See Mackrell: FILMS).
Newsletter No.13 December 1954
Quotations from Daily Telegraph about trouble among
the tribes of the N.E. Frontier of India, and also about the British patterns
preserved in the Indian Army. Quotation from The Times about Kohima.
Newsletter No.14 May 1955
Appendix 8:
ëThe Rhino and Running Waterí - an account of an
amusing war incident by Major Amar Sen of the Assam Regiment.
Newsletter No.15 November 1955
Newsletter No.16 June 1956
Quotations about the Maharaja of Manipur and the
Indian National Army Memorial.
Newsletter No.17 November 1956
Appendix 9:
Regimental Newsletter from Assam and letter from
P.B. Singh, The Palace, Imphal, Manipur State. (Brother of the Maharajah).
Newsletter No.18 May 1957
Brief account of P. Steyn's visit to the Battalion
in Shillong, and other letters.
Newsletter No.19 December 1957
Newsletter No.20 June 1958
Newsletter No.21 November 1958
Newsletter No.22 June 1959
Description of Regimental Reunion in Assam
Newsletter No.23 November 1959
Obituary notice from The Times of Major-General T.
Wynford Rees.
Newsletters No.24 June 1960 to No.33, June 1964
Newsletter No.34 December 1964
Obituary from The Times of Sir Robert Reid.
Newsletters No.35 June 1965 to No.37, June 1966
Newsletter No.38 February 1967
Book Review of Kohima by Arthur Swainson and ensuing
correspondence in the Kentish Gazette.
Newsletter No.39 June 1967
Reproduction from the Arny list of the Assam
Regiment, Part 2 of October 1945.
Newsletters No.40 March 1968 to No.42, April 1969.
Newsletter No.43 January 1970
Brief extract from Mr. Eric Lambert's diary of siege
of Kohima.
Newsletters No.44 June 1970 to No.46, June 1971.
Newsletter No.47 February 1972
Account of the unveiling of the memorial to the
Indian Allied Forces 1946 - 1947 in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Newsletter No.4 July 1972
Newsletter No.49 February 1973
ëReturn to India and the Assam Regimentí, 1972 by
D.E. Lloyd Jones. 15pp.
Detailed diary of a month's tour of India and Assam
by Mr and Mrs. Lloyd Jones, visiting friends, and battalions of the Assam
Regiment, where they were welcomed very warmly.
Newsletters No.50 July 1973 to No.51, January 1974
Newsletter No.52 June 1974
ëIndia and Nepal 1973: a sentimental journeyí by Lt.
Colonel E.H.M. Parsons.
Detailed diary of Colonel Parsons' return trip to
India, at the invitation of the Commandant of the Assam Regimental Centre in
Shillong. 14pp.
Newsletter No.53 February 1975
Newsletter No.54 - June 1975
Mentions the Centre of South Asian Studies'
activities, in particular the films.
Newsletters of the Assam Regiment Reunion Club No.l,
19.
Including ëReturn to India and the Assam Regiment:
1972í by Colonel D.E. Lloyd Jones, and ëIndia and Nepal, 1973: a sentimental
journeyí, by Lt. Colonel E.H.M. Parsons. TS appendices to Newsletters Nos.
Photograph of memorial plaque to the Assam Regiment
in the parish church of St. Andrews, Whittlesey - Dedicated 1950.
Pamphlet:
David Edward Evans: a Welshman in India, by D.E.
Loyd Jones, M.C., B.A, Reprinted from the Transactions of the Honourable
Society of Cymmrodorion, Session 1967, Part 1.
Short biography of D.E. Evans 1885. Joined Indian
Navy - 1888; Indian General Steam Navigation and Railway Co. of Calcutta;
joined Ralli Bros. as consulting engineer: became Superintendent Engineer -
1931.
(Newsletters of the Assam Regimental Association
continue to be received yearly).
McCall Collection: papers of Maj Anthony
Gilchrist McCall (1895-1978), Royal Artillery 1914-21, Indian Civil Service
1921-47, Superintendent of the Lushai Hills, Assam 1931-43, including papers
and drafts of articles and books relating to his scheme for the Total Defence
of the Lushai Hills in the Second World War.
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Given by Major A.G. McCall, I.C.S. through Mr. A.C.
Bowman
Assam: 1938-1951
Account of Major A.G. McCall's Total Defence Scheme
for the Lushai Hills during the World War II period, where he was
Superintendent (113 pp TS).
Returning to Residency 8 December 1941 hears of
Pearl Harbour. Goes to Calcutta to get news. Call on Chinese Consul, business
firm, finding there dismay at British myopia of the situation, and the actual
myopia at Army H.Q.
Period of indecision on what to do about defence.
Retrospective account of McCall's introduction of
'the Ten Point Code', the Welfare System, the Lushai Hills Cottage Industries
and inauguration of the Chiefs' Durbar - aim was unity - McCall shown to be a
real leader, therefore in January 1942 he sends his Lushai Hills Defence Scheme
to the Governor of Assam (Sir Robert Reid).
Lushai Hills Civil Defence Scheme: description and
explanation. It becomes, with Assam War Committee's sanction, the Lushai Total
Defence Scheme.
Account of McCall's speech to the chiefs of North
Lushai on 2 April 1942 outlining the T.D.S. and their discussion and replies.
McCall marches to the South Lushai Hills to enlist
chiefs' help there, and in particular the Sub-divisional officer's (Mr. L.L.
Peters) acceptance of the role of leadership Mr. Peters and Mr. Naylor (Chin
Hills) of opinion that levies would be better.
Consolidation of T.D.S. in North Lushai Hills.
Planning together with military.
Plan of defence campaign by the people.
Plan of defence by military.
Account of military conferences, defence discussions
and changing situation.
Position of the Welsh Mission: Pacifist.
Their brave decision to remain as long as possible
has a steadying influence. Indirectly helped T.D.S.
Notes on Postal Service and status of the volunteer
in wartime.
Notes on events after the withdrawal, from Burma of
all troops - June 1942.
Change of Governor. Advisers to new Governor (Sir
Andrew Clow) had never set foot in the Hills.
July 1942 - few operational troops being sent to
Aijal.
T.D.S. and military formation. Part played by
General Scoones.
August and September 1942 Japs much nearer.
Incident of American. survivors of a crashed Flying
Fortress.
Tempo of war on Eastern Frontier of India increasing
which meant a reduction of responsibility for T.D.S.
Tension of the waiting period in September/October
1942.
Aijal Road Project. Already traced out in 1937 to
connect the plains of Cachar with the Lushai Hills. Needed to be made properly.
Started with idea it would take 6 weeks but took months. Eventually appeal made
to the Indian Tea Association who responded with coolies from all over India.
At one time 50,000 people working on project. Begun August 1942 lasted until
February 1944. Some considered it a waste. McCall justifies it as making attack
on lines behind Tiddim and Haka possible. (see Films: Mackrell - No.25)
Interview with General Irwin, 5 November 1942.
Air Warning scheme begun.
Criticism begins of McCall as failing to appreciate
the whole situation.
In May 1943 the Governor posts him to Shillong. Deep
distress and anger over this.
June 17, 1943 - first jeep drives through to Aijal
from Cachar on the Aijal Road.
Disconnected notes about individuals and incidents.
Notes on Labour forces.
Notes on what was going on in "V" Force.
Notes on administrative confusion.
Notes on the Chin Hills.
Further disconnected notes on the T.D.S.
Notes on handing-over in June 1943.
Original papers and letters, and copies of papers,
relating to the Lushai Total Defence Scheme.
1. Lushai Total Defence Scheme
D.O. to Governor's Secretary on T.D. Scheme 3.2.42
Letter to Governor of Assam on Labour Problems
8.3.42
Correspondence with Col. Critchley on T.D. matters
March-April 1942
Memos on staffing for T.D. Scheme March-April 1942
Memo on operational considerations for Pasalthas
16.4.42
Memo on Evacuation 17.4.42
Address to Chiefs in Durbar (with subsequent
Manifesto) 2.4.42
Extract of Confidential Reports 5.4.42-6.1.43
U.O. letter to Governor's Secretary on Lushai cases in
controversy over T.D. Scheme 23.1.43
Memo to Governor's Secretary (ëIntolerable
Situationí) 9.8.43
Extract from Fortnightly Report by E.S. Hyde, I.C.S.
10.11.44
Article on Major McCall's T.D. Scheme in The
Statesman Summer 1945
Copy of letter from Lt. Col. Parsons on T.D. Scheme
August 1954
2. E.S. Hyde I.C.S. - Correspondence
Note on Southern Portion of Eastern Frontier between
Chindwin Valley and Bay of Bengal 8.7.42 Note on R.A.F. Movements 13.5.43
Letters relating to T.D.S. and defence of Eastern
frontier; some criticisms of personnel deployment and strategy: 7.4.43;
24.4.43; 17.5.43; 18.5.43; 20.5.43; 21.5.43; 6.6.43; 14.6.43; 12.6.44; 12.12.51
3. Military Papers
Letter from "V" Force Command to Major
C.G. Cuerdon about changes in command of lst Assam Rifles in "V"
Force 8.7.42
Memo on the Army and Sanctions: Major McCall July
1943
The Story of "V" Force
Note on Independent Brigade Group (Lushai Brigade).
4. Report on Zawngling Area, 1943: Major McCall
5. Lushai Industries
Notes on Red and Black Lacquers
Note on Moulding of Brass, by Pu Neithunga of
Chalrang.
Notes on indigenous dyes and casting, by Rev. R.A.
Lorrain.
Method of Ting dyeing, by Pu Thingkima Sailo, Chief
of Chalrang.
Macnabb Collection: correspondence and
papers of Dr James Macnabb (1759-1822), Bengal Medical Service 1789-1818, his
son James Munro Macnabb (1790-1860), Bengal Civil Service 1806-31, and
successive generations of the Macnabb family who served in India in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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(D. MacPherson)
TS account of the investigation 1935-42, into an illicit
distillery at Gariahat, Calcutta, the arrest and conviction of those involved,
the extradition of one of the accused from England in 1941, and his second
trial and conviction. 5 pp.
Three TS articles by MacPherson:
'The history of Chandernagore.' 9 pp.
'Famine in 1943.' 4 pp.
'Record of a case against Scheduled Castes in 1924.'
4 pp.
MacRobert Collection: papers of Sir
Alexander MacRobert, 1st Bart (1854-1922), businessman, co-founder and Chairman
of the British India Corporation Ltd, Cawnpore, President of Upper India
Chamber of Commerce; and of his wife Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert (d 1954);
especially relating to their interests in the British India Corporation and its
subsidiary companies.
81 items
1888 - 1977 View Contents
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(P.N. McWilliam, I.C.S.)
'Memorandum on the subject of the social and
official intercourse between European officers and Indian gentlemen.' Bengal
Secretariat Press, Calcutta 1913.
Printed papers:
Paper read by S.B. Mazumder, manager of Sir Daniel
Hamilton's estate, Gosaba, 1932. Gives the history of the estate.
'Full speed ahead' by D.M. Hamilton. A critique of
the financial policy of the Government. Printed, in three parts. n.d.
'The Gosaba one rupee note', by D.M. Hamilton.
Gosaba, January 1937.
'Financial stringency: its cause and cure', by D.M.
Hamilton. Gosaba, January 1937.
'The new statecraft', by Balmacara. An explanation
of socialism and capitalism.
Restricted Paper on anti-terrorism in Chittagong
district.
'Rules for training assistant magistrates deputy
magistrates and sub-deputy magistrates', by H.J. Twynam, Secretary to the
Government of Bengal. Calcutta, January 1940.
'Fourteen reports on inspections of courts etc. at
various places, when at Mymensingh and Chittagong', by P.N. McWilliam,
Additional District Magistrate, May 1938 - January 1940.
Notes and judgements on ten cases heard before P.
McWilliam, Magistrate. Mymensingh, Bengal, 1935-36.
A tour diary of P.N. McWilliam, I.C.S., A.D.M.
Chittagong for February 1939.
Memoirs, diaries, reports and personal
correspondence of Brig William Morgan Tilson Magan (b 1908), Indian Army
1928-c1946; covering his life in India as a member of the 12th Frontier Force
Cavalry, Hodson's Horse and whilst in the Intelligence Bureau, Home Dept, Govt
of India.
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Peon Book used to record items sent by
messenger by Mrs Ivy Lyn Martin, wife of Col Denys Richard Martin, Royal
Engineers, at Calcutta when she was managing director of the Dysulin
Pharmaceutical Company, and later at Rawalpindi.
1 volume
1940 - 1953
(O.M. Martin, I.C.S.)
Memoirs, 1913-45:
Part I, 1913-19. Joins I.C.S., Bengal, 1913, sent to
Rajshahi; 1916 joins Indian cavalry; 1917 joins 14th Lancers; life in Indian
cavalry; service in Iraq. TS. 84 pp.
Part II. Subdivisional Officer Narayanyanj; leave;
Additional District and Sessions Judge H.Q. Comilla Chittagong; moved to Assam
Valley - H.Q. Gauhati; Acting District Judge; Hinduism in Assam; description of
various trials; touring by pony and sailing cutter; prosecution of Muslim
leaders for sedition; congress leaders take fright and rural police are
intimidated; dishonesty in his office and in land settlement; extermination of
bison and wild buffalo; control of murder and dacoity; riots on Calcutta;
terrorist movement and police intelligence service; social contact with Indians
in Calcutta and Darjeeling; Lepchas; riot and murder on river sandbanks;
weapons used in land riots; cotton weavers and their plight; Dacca riots; cause
of the riots; Bengal Government failure to realize cause; railway accident and
prosecution of manager; terrorist movement and its collapse; Sir John Anderson;
training of Assistant Magistrates; fish industry; mosquito control; famine
relief in West Bengal; corrupting influence of politics on Indian friends;
Hindus and Muslims becoming estranged; outbreak of war; deficiencies in
training Indian army; difficulties as Chief Secretary; order arrests of
suspected terrorists; conference of generals at Chittagong; futility of army
measures for 'denial of transport' and the economic effects; Gandhi's emissary
is arrested and sentenced; refugees from Burma; great Bengal famine. TS from
pp. 85-331; 37 pp. of MS, numbered pp. 332-369.
MS synopsis of points of interest of each part made
by Martin: Part I consists of one sheet; Part II consists of five sheets.
Treatise on Yogasastra by Professor Monoranjan
Barua, revised and partly rewritten and with a foreword by O.M. Martin, dated
1968. TS. 400 pp.; divided into 21 chapters and 3 appendices.
Letters and papers of Philip Docton Martyn
(b 1904), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1927-47, and his wife Margaret Lisle
Martyn (nee Gadd), relating to their life and careers in India.
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Accounts of British rule in India, in
particular of the Bihar Earthquake 1934 with copy photographs of earthquake
damage, and Calcutta and Bengal 1939-48, by Margaret Stavridi, wife of A G
Stavridi, East Indian Railway engineer; also printed account of `East Indian
Railway and Damodar Flood Breaches, 1943'; and Japanese war propoganda leaflet
[1942].
1 folder
1934 - 1948
Given by J. Mottram
Note on the Bengal famine of November 1943 made
after serving with the 4th Battalion of the 4th Bombay Grenediers, which tried
to relieve the suffering.
The papers of the late Louis, Earl Mountbatten of
Burma, and Edwina, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, form part of University of
Southampton Library MS62, the Broadlands archives.
These are held in In the Special Collections section
of University of Southhampton
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The first section of the Mountbatten Papers Database
contains a glossary of acronyms and abbreviations used in the detailed catalogue
descriptions of papers for Lord Mountbatten's command in South East Asia,
relating to the transfer of power in India and of photograph albums.
This is followed by, firstly, a summary catalogue
and then detailed catalogue descriptions of sections of the archive. The
summary catalogue includes brief descriptions of the papers of the late Earl
and Countess Mountbatten of Burma, together with family papers, a series of
photograph albums and photographs and BR70-90, which is the political
correspondence of William Wilfrid Ashley from the Broadlands estate papers.
Complementary to this summary catalogue are detailed
descriptions of papers focusing on sections of the archive, specifically Lord
Mountbatten as Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, for the transfer of
power in India, and of some photograph albums.
The summary catalogue contains brief descriptions of
the following sub-divisions of papers:
MB1/A Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: private
papers, 1900-48
MB1/B Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: Fifth
Destroyer Flotilla and Combined Operations, 1939-43
MB1/C Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: South
East Asia Command, 1943-6
MB1/D Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: official
papers as last Viceroy and first Governor General of India, 1947-8
MB1/E Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma:
correspondence files, 1946-8
MB1/F Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: First
Cruiser Squadron, 1948-50
MB1/G Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: Fourth
Sea Lord, 1950-2
MB1/H Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: Commander
in Chief Mediterranean and Commander in Chief Allied Forces Mediterranean,
1952-4
MB1/I Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: First Sea
Lord, 1955-9
MB1/J Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: Chief of
Defence Staff, 1959-65
MB1/K Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: civilian
life, 1965-79
MB1/L Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma:
organisations, 1937-82
MB1/M Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma: speeches
and broadcasts
MB1/N Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma:
miscellaneous (recurrent subjects), 1921-81
MB1/O Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma:
miscellaneous
MB1/P Papers of Edwina, Countess Mountbatten of
Burma: correspondence files, 1923-47
MB1/Q Papers of Edwina, Countess Mountbatten of
Burma: correspondence files, 1947-8
MB1/R Papers of Edwina, Countess Mountbatten of
Burma: correspondence files, 1948-60
MB1/T Papers of Prince Louis of Battenberg (Louis
Alexander Mountbatten, first Marquis of Milford Haven from 1917): naval and
personal papers, 1868-1921, 1962-79
MB1/U Papers of the German branch of the Mountbatten
family
MB1/W Papers of William Wilfrid Ashley, Baron Mount
Temple: political and private correspondence, 1898-1938
MB1/X Papers of Sir Ernest Cassel, 1887-1920
MB1/Y Milford Haven family papers
MB1/Z Papers of Earl Mountbatten of Burma:
correspondence with Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman
MB2/A Photograph albums: Prince Louis of Battenberg
(Louis Alexander Mountbatten, first Marquis of Milford Haven, from 1917)
MB2/B Photograph albums: Princess Louise of
Battenberg (later Queen of Sweden); Victoria, Princess Louis of Battenberg
(Marchioness of Milford Haven from 1917)
MB2/C Photograph albums: Nona Kerr (Mrs Richard
Crichton), lady in waiting to Victoria, Princess Louis of Battenberg
MB2/D Photograph albums: Prince George of Battenberg
(second Marquis of Milford Haven)
MB2/E Photograph albums: Prince Alexander of Hesse;
Prince Gregory Gargarine
MB2/F Photograph albums: Baroness Sophie Buxhoevden;
Elisabeth, Grand Duchess Serge
MB2/G Photograph albums: royal families in Europe;
Montenegrin family
MB2/H Photograph albums: Evelyn Ashley; Sybella
Ashley; Maud Ashley (nee Cassel); William Wilfrid Ashley, Baron Mount Temple;
sketch book of Emily, Viscountess Palmerston
MB2/I Presentation albums: Sir Ernest Cassel
MB2/J Visitors and calling books, 1884-1956
MB2/K Photograph albums: Edwina, Countess
Mountbatten of Burma, 1920-2
MB2/L Photograph albums: visits and tours by Edwina,
Countess Mountbatten of Burma, including the honeymoon tour of Lord and Lady
Mountbatten, 1922-45
MB2/M Photograph albums: visits by Edwina, Countess
Mountbatten of Burma, 1932-60
MB2/N Photograph albums: Earl Mountbatten of Burma,
1904-80
MB2/O Articles and photographs of houses, including
Brook House, London, and 2 Wilton Crescent
MB2/P Address books, stamp and coin collections
MB2/Q Photograph albums, including of Mahatma Gandhi
and of India; photographs, shooting script for In which we serve
MB2/R Photograph albums: visits by Earl and Countess
Mountbatten of Burma, 1939-59
MB2/S Photograph albums: visits by Earl Mountbatten
of Burma, 1939-76
MB2/T Game books: Classiebawn, County Sligo,
Ireland; Adsdean; Broadlands estate; Lord Mountbatten's personal game book
MB2/U Account books, Broadlands estate books, cash
and personal expenditure analysis books
MB3 Photographs, including for SACSEA, India, Chief
of Defence Staff; family photographs for the Russian imperial family,
Battenberg and Mountbatten families, Cassel and Ashley families, the royal
family
MB5 Bound volumes, mainly naval notes of Earl
Mountbatten of Burma and inventories and lists of articles of Adsdean and Brook
House
MB7 Press cuttings, 1921, 1944-85
MB11 Papers of Victoria, Princess Louis of
Battenberg (Marchioness of Milford Haven from 1917); lists of books read:
extracts of books; copies and translations of poems
MB12 Papers of Nona Kerr (Mrs Richard Crichton),
lady in waiting to Victoria, Princess Louis of Battenberg
BR70-99 Papers of William Wilfrid Ashley, Baron
Mount Temple
There are detailed catalogue descriptions for the
following sub-division of papers:
MB1/C1-99 South East Asia Command, 1943-6
MB1/C100-99 South East Asia Command, 1943-6
MB1/C200-99 South East Asia Command, 1943-6
MB1/C300-28 South East Asia Command, 1943-6
MB1/D3-20 Official papers as last Viceroy and first
Governor General of India, 1947-8
MB1/D21-40 Official papers as last Viceroy and first
Governor General of India, 1947-8
MB1/D41-60 Official papers as last Viceroy and first
Governor General of India, 1947-8
MB1/D61-80 Official papers as last Viceroy and first
Governor General of India, 1947-8
MB2/A-K Mountbatten photograph albums, 1859-1940
MB2/L-N
Mountbatten photograph albums, 1904-80
Mr Mullock was a European working in Calcutta
between 1929 and 1937. He worked in Bombay between 1937 and 1948, with a brief
interlude in Belgaum, and returned to Calcutta in 1948 before leaving for
Britain in 1950.
Given by D.W. Mullock Esq.
Miscellaneous papers. 29 ff xerox copies. Press
cuttings on terrorist activities in Bengal, particularly political
assassination, early 1930s. Material relating to 'The Royalists'. According to
its prospectus 'The Royalists' was an organisation composed of 'younger members
of the British Community in India' which 'Stood for the King against the King's
Enemies'. Criticism of government was not incompatible with this attitude and
the Royalists were concerned to ensure that the European Association really
voiced the demands of the European Community and that the rights of the
Community were properly safeguarded in any future constitution. The Royalists
were not militant but might be used for the formation of a defence force in an
emergency: The papers include the minutes of the Annual General Meeting held at
the Grand Hotel, Calcutta on 13 September 1934. Mr Mullock was Chairman of the
Royalists on this occasion.
`Jim's Journal: excerpts from an
autobiography by James Murray' (b 1906), trader in scientific instruments,
giving an account of his life in India (1906-47).
63 pages
1906 - 1947
Muspratt Collection: diaries, articles,
lectures, photographs and memorabilia of General Sir Sydney Frederick Muspratt
(1878-1972), illustrating his life and career in the Indian Army 1898-1941,
particularly on the North-West Frontier; also Muspratt family papers, dated
1801-55 and 1897-1918.
128 items
1901 - 1968 View Contents
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Tape recording of interview, given 1989, by
Roy Edward King Nissen (b 1905), on his life and career in India as a member of
the European domiciled community and as an Accounts Officer in the Indian
Railways 1924-60.
4 cassettes 1905 - 1960
Ouwerkerk Collection: diaries, letters and
papers of Louise Ouwerkerk (1904-89), University teacher in Travancore 1929-39,
wartime internee 1940-41, employed on official publicity work in India 1942-46,
teacher in West Africa 1953-63, teacher in India and England 1963-71.
95 items
1929 - 1983 View Contents
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Brigadier J.J. Packard served with 1st Battalion
East Yorkshire Regiment in North, West and East India 1933-37 and 1943-46. His
wife, Mrs Faith Packard, joined him in India for part of 1946.
Typescript memoir by Brigadier Packard: 'Service
with the British Army in India'. This covers such matters as the nature of
Packard's relations with his Indian Sepoys; European Army Officers' domestic
arrangements; contacts with ordinary Indians; the daily routine. 3pp.
Typescript memoir by Mrs Faith Packard: My
recollections of India in 1946'. Memories of Delhi, Simla and Calcutta. 3pp.
(The Rev. David A. Patterson)
Given by Mr. Phillip Nash 1971
Burma; India
1932-1943
BOX I
269 letters written by the Rev. David Patterson to
his mother 1932-1941 from Burma and wartime letters 1942-1943 from India.
In 1932 he went out as a layman to teach in the Diocesan
Boys' School Rangoon, until 1935. Returned to England in 1936 to be ordained
and went back to Burma in 1938 to teach in St. John's College, Rangoon, the
Mission of the Resurrection, Syriam, and as headmaster of All Saints S.P.G.
Boys' High School and Mission, Schwebo, February 1941.
The letters describe his life as a missionary
teacher and then as a priest in Burma, and outside activities: relationships
between Burmans, Anglo-Indians and Europeans. In 1942 he became Chaplain to the
Forces in Burma. He was with General Alexander in the retreat from Rangoon to
Assam in May 1942. In 1943 he was in India as an army chaplain. 580pp.
BOX II
17 letters undated from. St. John's College,
Rangoon, probably 1939-40. 38pp.
14 miscellaneous undated letters from ships etc.
Some loose pages from other letters. 37pp.
Miscellaneous printed papers, programmes etc. from
Burma, undated.
Letter from Cyril Patterson (David Patterson's
Brother) in Onitsha to his mother, 20 July 1935.
Photographs in envelopes of: voyages - Madras and
Calcutta; snake charmers; Mandalay and Pagan; Shan States and Maymyo; Rangoon;
Burmese scenes; Shan States Mission and school scenes. These are named and
explained on the reverse, not all are dated.
Griffiths, Percival J. The British in India. London,
1946.
Tyson, Geoffrey. Forgotten frontier. Calcutta, 1945.
Restricted
(E.L. Pawsey)
The Commissioners for the Port of Calcutta.
'Exhibited drawings for the construction, supply and delivery at the Port of
Calcutta of one twin screw buoy lifting despatch vessel. Marine Department,
September 1948.
Sir Claude Inglis' report on prospects of improving
the navigability of the Hooghly, together with reports and comments by the Chairman,
1947.
Chittagong papers.
Papers referring to Calcutta Port Commission, August
1945.
History of the Port of Calcutta - Deputy
Conservator's Department. (Large tin file.)
River Hooghly Manual. 1949. Section 1. Extracts from
acts, rules and regulations.
(Canon R. Pelly)
BOX I
Bishops College, Calcutta, The Chronicle. 1922-58
(incomplete); 1960, 1965. (Supplements for 1950, 1952, 1958.)
St. Paul's, Darjeeling. School Chronicle. 1947-66
(incomplete).
BOX II
Parish magazine of the Old Mission Church, Calcutta,
January-December 1927-28.
'A coin of Indian metal: the life of Wing-Commander
K.K. Majumdar, D.F.C. and Bar', by K.N. Dutt. Madras, Bangalore. The Christian
Literature Society for India, 1949.
Given by Commander L. Peppé
'The Piprawah Stupa on the Birdpore Estate
containing the relics of Buddha', by J.H.H. Peppé. Privately printed pamphlet
published by J.H.H. Peppé, Birdpore Estate, Basti, U.P., and printed at Utpal
Press, Calcutta, 9, n.d. 12 pp.
Newspaper cutting from the Pioneer of 18 August 1956
on 'The annihilation of Lord Buddha's family', by Paripurnanand Verma; this
also refers to the Piprawah Stupa and its contents.
Xerox copy of extract from the Journal of the Royal
Asiatic Society, 1898 - 'The Piprawah Stupa, containing relics of Buddha', by
William Claxton Peppy Esq. Communicated, with a note, by Vincent A. Smith,
I.C.S., M.R.A.S. with two plates. 15 pp.
Typescript copy of the account of the activities of
Lt. Col. W.T.H. Peppéís grandfather during the Indian mutiny. The account was
written by his daughter who later became Mrs. de Hochepied Larpent; and also
includes the origin of the Birdpur Estate in the Basti District of the U.P.
(The original is in the possession of Lt. Col. Peppé.)
(Air Vice Marshal Sir Allan Perry Keene) C.B.,
O.B.E.
Delhi, Simla, U.P., C.P., Punjab, Bengal. Later,
Pakistan 1934-1949
Reflected Glory - An Autobiography by Sir Allan
Perry-Keene. Privately printed 1978.
Posted by Air Ministry to India in 1934, he served
as a member of the Air Staff in Delhi and Simla until 1940. Posted to India
again at the end of World War II, he was appointed chairman of Air Force
Reconstruction Committee. He describes transition period for RAF in India until
formation of RIAF and RPAF. Later as Commander Royal Pakistan Air Force much
involved in Indo Pakistani was over Kashmir 1948-49.
Xerox copy of letter from George Renny to his
half-brother, dated 27 May 1858 from Bijnore, Rohilkand, concerning the part
his loyal Hindustani corps took in the siege of Delhi. 3pp.
Pinnell Collection: papers of Leonard
George Pinnell (1896-1979), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1920-47, Director of
Civil Supplies, Bengal 1942-43; co-ordinator of Bengal Government's evidence to
Famine Enquiry Commission 1943-44, Principal of of training course for military
officers returning to civil administration 1944-45; Chairman, Bengal
Development Board 1946-47; also printed speeches by Governors of Bengal
1936-46.
39 items
1932 - 1948 View Contents List
Mr L.G. Pinnell (1896-1979)
Given by Mr M.C. Pinnell
Calcutta, Bengal, Darjeeling 1919-1947
Memoir: With the sanction of government describing
career of L.G. Pinney before, during and after his time in the ICS. Some
insertions and notes are made throughout by Mr Pinnell's son, the donor Mr M.C.
Pinnell. Sections are as follows:
To go or not to go to Oxford
Cambrai, October 1918
Armistice
Oxford, 1919
First years in India, 1920-22
First years in the Service
Bengal, 1922: a young man's impressions
Bengal, 1923-25: marriage, home leave
Bengal, 1926-29: Dacca
The Bengal Secretariat, 1930 and 1934
Bengal, 1930-32: Rajshahi
Begal, 1932-34: Darjeeling
Darjeeling, 1932: Miss Ellen Wilkinson
Darjeeling, 1934: the Bihar earthquake
Bengal, 1935-37: Sir John Anderson
Bengal, 1935-38: Major General Lindsay
Bengal sketches:
Sarat and Subhas Bose
Khwaja Sir Nazimuddin
Sir Bijoy Prasad Singh Roy
Khwaja Shahabuddin
Narendra Bishas
A muslim country parson
Bengal, 1937-39: Lord Brabourne
Bengal, 1939: interregnum
The training of the I.C.S., 1940-42
The Cripps mission - Delhi, 1942
The "Denial of ttransport" - Delhi, 1942
The Bengal famine, 1942-43
The end of the Japanese war
Calcutta, 1946
Family life
Memoria
112pp. plus three pages of introduction
(H. Quinton)
TS note on terrorism in Bengal - a memory, during
the fifty years prior to Independence. 4 pp. n.d. In particular, personal
reminiscences of Alipore.
'Personal reminiscences of the Indian mutiny', by
Margaret Spencer. Booklet, n.d.
Reid Collection: papers and diaries of Sir
Robert Niel Reid (1883-1964), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1907-42, Governor of
Assam 1937-42, Acting Governor of Bengal 1938 and 1939.
91 items
1918 - 1964 View Contents
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Materials collected by Raymond Kevin
Renford for his book `The non-official British in India to 1920' (1987); also
two copies of his MA thesis `The Role of the non-official British in India in
the Ilbert Bill controversy' (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1973).
102 items
1883 - 1975
Given by Mrs. D. Rose
Bengal, Kashmir, Burma, Assam 1942-1946
Letters from Mrs. Dorothy Rose in Calcutta, to
England.
30 December 1944
The dirt and disease in Calcutta. Leave in Kashmir
after her husband had got out of Assam after the siege of Imphal. No hope of
demobilisation for two years.
27 August 1945
Has moved outside Calcutta in a temporary job.
Adjustments and uncertainty after the war - job, getting home etc. Leave again
in Kashmir.
22 September 1945
To her cousin Joanna Skipwith. Uncertainty of
immediate future for her husband and self. Has been working with returned POWs
from Singapore. Comments on their wonderful spirit - and on the years of the
Japanese occupation.
Copies of extracts from The Statesman, 20 August,
1946.
Original TS of Mr. Alistair Rose's trek out of Burma,
January-June 1942
Flew on 21 December, 1941, from Sydney to Moulmein,
leaves his wife in Sydney. Arrives after diversions in Moulmein on 2nd January,
1942. Boards his launch and finds that Army Officers have commandeered his
bungalow and they travel together. Describes small forces available to defend
Tenasserim timber yard. Continues business as far as possible (teak trade).
Air-raids begin. Description of type of bombs. etc.
19 January Hears Tavoy battalion routed. Closes
mill, disperses staff and elephants. Eventually an air raid sets fire to town
and causes complete evacuation of southern and central part of the town. Does
not destroy timber yard and plant as believed R.A.F. would disperse Japanese
attempts to ship timber. No idea Indian troop resources inadequate. Eventually
is only person left on site so decides to go to Rangoon by train with the
firm's books. Complains that civilian population kept ignorant by army of
events in the war: Indian civilians left behind unnecessarily on evacuation of
Mergui. Fall of Moulmein and reasons. Description of the confused movements and
activities before final evacuation, and fall of Burma.
Decides to leave by the Chaukan Pass route.
Rose and Anderson start the trek along with hundreds
of other refugees. Gurkha families, Anglo-Indians, and probably Bishop
Strachan's school, all of whom died. At Myitkyina scraps possessions down to
minimum, and food to one week's supply. Joined by Stapleton with pony and mule.
At Maingkwan they are able to load up with rice. March in torrential rain.
Arriving Sinbwiyang - plentiful food from air-dropped rations. Europeans if
possible distribute to prevent looting. This area enabled thousands to continue
after food for a few days. Parts from Anderson and Stapleton, who rest further.
Wait for official party, and hope for Naga guides for unused Naga route. Only
I.C.S. used it eventually. Anderson died. Joins three other officers and has
bunch of Lushais loosely attached, who were very useful in camping. Party
splits into two. Mule dies, they catch bullocks. Magnificent work of the Assam
Tea Planters' Association in relief measures. Arrive at a railway and is taken
to hospital and eventually reached Calcutta, having walked 109 miles.
A shortened duplicated version of the above, duplicated
and bound with maps, with a history of the firm of T.D. Findlay and Son, Ltd.
entitled:
A short history of T.D. Findlay and Son Ltd., East
India Merchants, and An account of Alistair Rose's route out of Burma in 1942.
17pp.
Miscellaneous papers of Sir (Thomas) James
Young Roxburgh (1892-1974), Indian Civil Service 1915-52, Judge, High Court
Calcutta 1942-52, including newspaper cuttings, photographs and ephemera.
1 volume; 1 box 1906
- 1969
Indian Railways Collection: correspondence,
papers and articles relating to Indian Railways, together with locomotive
diagrams and photographs, collected by Michael G Satow.
204 items
1845 - 1990 View Contents
List
Copies of selected papers of Pulin Behari
Seal (1900-?83), journalist and Indian political activist in London; appointed
by C R Das representative in London of Indian National Congress and Swaraj
Party 1924-27; President, Indian Association, London 1924-27; General
Secretary, London Branch of Indian National Congress 1927-31; General
Secretary, Indian Independence League, London 1931-36; Chairman, Committee of
Indian Congressmen, London, and General, Council for the International
Recognition of Indian Independence 1941-45.
5 items
1924 - 1947 View Contents
List
(W. McC. Sharpe)
Microfilm No. 10
Report of the Dacca Riots Enquiry Committee.
Alipore, Bengal, Bengal Government Press, 1942. 60 pp. and six appendices of 25
pp. In three parts: Dacca city; rural areas; recommendations. Appendix E
contains five photographs of the damage; appendix F contains map of the town.
Report of the trial and judgement of Surja Sen,
alias Master de Tarakeswar Dastidar and Kalpana Datta under the Bengal Criminal
Act etc. at Darjeeling 7 June 1933. Includes exhibits produced at the trial,
including statements made to the Tribunal and propaganda and instructions made
by the Indian Republic Army, and copies of documents found and used in evidence.
W. McC. Sharpe, member of the special Tribunal. TS. 147 pp, plus 24 pp. of
documents.
Given by Sir Harold Shoobert
(Received 21 June 1968)
Papers relating to the claims of the Begam A. U.
Wali-ud-Dowla against the Nizam of Hyderabad.
Letter from Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru to W.V. Grigson
about the Begam Wali-ud-Dowla's Case. Allahabad 21 August, 1947.
Copy of his letter to the Begam Memorandum prepared
by Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru on the case.
Application to be made to R.M. the Nizam about the
case.
Opinion in re Begam A.U. Wali-ud-Dowla of Hyderabad
Deccan: in the matters of the claims of Mahboob Begam and Qadra Begam by Sir
Tej Bahadur Sapru, Allahabad, 21 August 1947. (Case formerly argued at
Hyderabad before the Royal Commission, July and August 1944). 9pp.
Letter from W.V. Grigson to the Begam Sahiba
Wali-ud-Dowla, 26 August 1947.
Note in re Begam Wali-ud-Dowla's case. A brief
sketch of the life and career of Nawab Wali-ud-Dowla, signed by Sir Tej Bahadur
Sapru, Allahabad 20 October 1944, 48pp.
List of papers in Re: Begam Wali-ud-Dowla's Case.
2 copies of letters from E.P. Caspersz to Mr.
Touche, M.P., 30 November 1946 and 7 October 1946.
Bundle of papers relating to the Schillergunge Estate,
including annual accounts from 1866 to1929.
{Memorandum, 19 February 1948 by Edward P. Caspersz,
Schillergunge P.O., Mathibaria, Bakarganj District, E. Bengal. Part 2 of 8
March 1948. Written to show why special consideration should be shown compared
with other landowners, in case of acquisition by Government, 6pp.}
Miscellaneous papers of Sir James David
Sifton (1878-1952), Indian Civil Service 1902-37, Governor of Orissa 1932-36,
of Bihar 1936-37; including reports on settlement operations in Hazaribagh and
Singhbhum, newspaper special editions on the Bihar earthquake of 1934, daily
engagement book, scrapbook, and letters home.
11 items
1901 - 1958 View Contents
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`Reminiscences of an Indian Medical Service
Officer', dated Jan 1979, by Maj Edward John Somerset (b 1907), describing his
career in the Indian Medical Service 1938-47, and his life in India as a
private practitioner 1947-61.
309 folios 1938 - 1961
Papers of Major Edward John Somerset, M.B. (Lond.),
M.S. (Opth.), D.O.M.S. (Eng.), M.R.C.S. Born 12 November 1907, joined Indian
Medical Service 1 November 1938. Posted Quetta 1939 to general medical work in
Government Hospital. Transferred 1 January 1943 to Shillong as Eye Specialist,
General Hospital. Transferred September 1943, Calcutta as Eye Specialist, 47
British General Hospital. Made Professor of Opthalmology at Medical College,
Calcutta 18 May 1944. After Independence until 1961, when he left India, in
private opthalmic practice in Calcutta.
Given by Major Somerset.
BOX I
14 Indian Survey Ordnance Maps of the Nepal, Sikkim
and Tibet border areas.
Sheet No. 78A Darjeeling 1930.
Sheet No. 78A/SW and 72M/SE 1942.
Sheet No. 78A/NW and 77D/SW 1930.
Sheet No. 78A/NE and 77D/SE 1930.
Sheet No. 78B/NE 1942.
Sheet No. 78B/NW 1942.
Sheet No. 77D 1946.
Sheet No. 78E 1942.
Sheet No. 78E 1925.
Road Map of India 1942.
O.S. Map of Baluchistan No. 34 N/3 1925.
4 inch Shillong Guide Map - third edition 1942.
Shillong and surrounding country 1930.
Sheet No. 78A Darjeeling 1930.
BOX II
TS Memoir: Reminiscences of an Indian Medical Service
Officer from 1939 to 1961. By E.J. Somerset, Major I.M.S. (retd.) N.W.F.P.,
Shillong, Calcutta. 309 ff. A discursive and frank account of colleagues,
friends, household management, army social life in Quetta and Shillong and
civilian social life in Calcutta, recreations, which include treks to Sikkim
and Tibet. While in Quetta observed Sir Henry Holland's work. Many pages
describe his own work. A comprehensive memoir showing his attitudes to British
and Indians.
Sorabji Collection: correspondence, diaries
and papers of Cornelia Sorabji (1866-1954), Indian lawyer and social reformer,
Lady Assistant to the Court of Wards in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, and Assam
1904-23; also papers of other members of her family.
233 items
1882 - 1947 View Contents
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Mrs Margaret Stavridi was with her husband
(Alexander Gregory Stavridi) in India where he worked as an engineer with the
East Indian Railway between 1921 and 1948. She was a writer and designer and
was also much involved with welfare work, especially during the 1939-45 war.
Material given by Mrs Stavridi.
BOX 1
Typescript copies of four articles:
(i) Regarding government service during British rule
in India. 2ff.
(ii) India 1939-1948: Bengal, Calcutta. 8ff.
(iii) The civilian war effort in Bengal, India
1939-1946. (For the "Forgotten Army"). 10ff.
(iv) The civilian war effort in Bengal for the
welfare of the "Forgotten Army" of the East, 1942-1946. 8ff.
The articles describe the work of BESA (Bengal
Entertainment for the Services Association) both in Calcutta and in "the
field". Mrs Stavridi was also involved with running canteens for troops,
organising visitors for the severely wounded in hospitals and launching the
Hospital Welfare Service. She describes civilian life in Bengal 1939-48 with
its natural disasters of cyclones, floods and famine.
2. Six letters, written after the Stavridis returned
to England, from their former servants 1948-69. 3 Folder entitled: 'The work of
civilians in Calcutta and Bengal in the 1939-1945 War' containing:
(i) Schicklgrüber by Robert Colling-Pyper and
Margaret Stavridi with an introduction by Lady Linlithgow. (Calcutta: Thacker's
Press and Directories, 1943.) The volume, which contains many coloured
illustrations, is a parody of the German work Struwelpeter, and is subtitled
'cautionary tales for modern times'. It treats cynically the various conquests
of Hitler and Mussolini. The folder includes letters from the British Red Cross
Museum and Archives written in 1992 and 1993 and relating to Schicklgrüber.
(ii) Annual reports, letters etc. concerning the
Bengal Home Industries Association. 1946-48.
(iii) Miscellaneous designs, letters and newspaper
cuttings. 8 Photographs. 1934-65.
(iv) Programmes, newspaper reviews, designs etc of
BESA-ENSA productions. Calcutta, 1940-46. Includes items on the following
productions: (1) 'For Poland': Karel Capek's Insect Play, 1940; (2) Arms and Legs,
1941; (3) "Eve-an' Now": an intimate review of fashion by Robert
Colling-Pyper, [1943]; (4) Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, 1946. BOX 2
1. Costume and set designs for a review entitled
"Rise and Smile". 13 ff.
2. Typescript of text of "Eve-an' Now": an
intimate review of fashion. By Robert Colling-Pyper. 1942. 37pp.
3. A trip through the land of sunshine and surprise
over the E[ast] I[ndian] R[ailway]. 37pp, illustrated. 4. 1934: The Statesman
record of the great Indian earthquake. Calcutta.
44pp, illustrated.
5. "Hand outs" for press tour over East
Indian Railway, October 1944: Howrah Station and environments. Calcutta: East
Indian Railway Press, 1944. 6pp. BOXES P.1 AND P.2
1. 6 albums of photographs.
2. 5 envelopes of negatives.
3. 1 can of 7 ciné films.
Book:
"Curry & rice", on forty plates, or,
the ingredients of social life at "our station" in India. By George
Franklin Atkinson. 3rd ed., London: Day & Son, [1860]. (Archive MISC.159).
Given by Eric Stracey, (Indian police)
Restricted to the year 2010
TS Memoir: 'Odd Man in': (My years in the Indian
Police 1943-1979) By Eric Stracey.
Given by M.M. Stuart
Bengal 1848-1962
Microfilm Box 2 No. 17B;
Letters by Emily Sandys and by her husband to her
brother Robert Stuart, written from Sangor Island. Five letters undated but one
describes her journey to India; others deal with life in India and a cholera
epidemic at the school. Letter dated 12 January 1854 describes her husband's
method of preaching to the crowds and her teaching at the school. Several
letters from Mr. Sandys to Robert (first dated 16 June 1855) from Calcutta,
giving details of their health and activities.
Letters written by Isabella Stuart to her brother
Robert while in India - gives details of the day to day activities of the
household. (Some of these letters are incomplete.)
Letters written by John Comb to Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Stuart 1815-17. (Mrs. Julia Stuart is Comb's sister.) Four letters written
while he is at Marizion after the wreck of his ship Delhi waiting for another
vessel, dated 15 October 1815 until 17 January 1816 when he writes from
Blackwall that he has been given command of the Swallow; 20 May 1816, Madras,
comments on the good sailing qualities of Swallow and first trip to India,
their ports of call in India, hope for appointment on another ship; stays in
Calcutta in the hope of ashore job.
BOX I
Envelope containing,
TS of one short story by Tagore. 13pp.
Short story by Premendra Mitra. llpp. Translated and
shortened by M.M. Stuart.
TS short story - Down in the Delta, by M.M. Stuart.
13pp.
The Last Round: Short story printed in Blackwoods
Magazine for January 1962, (pp. 30-38), by M.M. Stuart.
Confidential letter from W.H. Graham, District
Officer at Mymensingh, dated 2 May 1932, to the Commissioner, Dacca. M.M.
Stuart's comments relating to general attitudes towards the Civil Disobedience
Movement. 4pp.
Notes by the District Magistrate (M.M. Stuart),
Chittagong, 1942-45. An account of war conditions in his district. TS. 48pp.
Dispensing with Justice. Description of the work of
a magistrate. TS. 9pp.
Newspaper cuttings of a series of articles entitled:
Echoes of Old Times in East Bengal, from the Pakistan Observer, 1949-50.
32 articles.
Two TS copies of above and a TS list of the subjects
in the articles.
BOX II
Pamphlet: John Murdoch - pioneer in Christian
literature, by Jessie H. Mair. United Society for Christian Literature - Perth
1976.
Pioneer of Christian literature in Ceylon and S.
India 1848-1904.
Book: My Life and Times as a Magistrate in Bengal in
the Age of Gold, an autobiography by Clifford Noronha. Privately published and
printed in Calcutta (1975).
Autobiography of an Anglo-Indian who joined the
I.C.S. in 1921 and served in Bengal until his retirement. He started the
Christian Cooperative Credit Union in Calcutta and the Christian Cooperative
Enterprises, as a way of helping the indigent Anglo-Indians and others of Calcutta,
who were in the hands of money lenders. He is critical of India and Indians in
their attitude to service, and gives a good description of Anglo-Indian
attitudes and attributes.
Letter from C.C. Noronha in Calcutta to Mr. M.M.
Stuart dated 20 October 1975.
Small MS notebook entitled, Extracts from Alick's
letters to me. The writer was the wife of A.S. Wilson, 1854-1881, a tea-planter
in the Cachar District, Assam; these are copies from a very few letters covering
years December 1874-1880, mostly domestic, describes what they eat, and a day's
work in a tea-garden. Has taught some coolies to play cricket. P.A. murdered by
Nagas, etc.
TS article by M.M. Stuart on Hugh Cleghorn,
Professor of Civil History, University of St. Andrews, c. 1795; written 1971,
(10 pp).
(a-d) 3 xerox letters dated 1796 and 1797 and shikar
diaries dated 1865 belonging to Walter McCullock, Adwall, Kirkudbrightshire.
(a) Xerox copy of pamphlet - A Trip to the
Berhampooter Churs, by Thane, from 13 March to 10 April. Mirzapore, 1866.
(shikar).
(b) Xerox copy of pamphlet: Reminiscences of Malda,
by Thane, Mirzapore 1867. 7pp.
Short note on the shikar diaries by M.M. Stuart.
Xerox copy of TS Postgraduate Seminar, Bengal: Past
and Present. Paper for discussion on 10 November 1971, Hindu-Muslim unity in
Noakhali, 1922: Hindu-Muslim disorder in Dacca, 1928. 14pp. (Restrictions on
use).
Xerox copy of TS synopsis of papers with Brigadier
Greenfield, late of Fascadale, Argyll, entitled Marrying in the East. 3pp.
TS synopsis of Balfour/Balbirnie papers. These are
in Wainwright and Mathews and N.R.S. (Scot). 15pp.
TS article Chuadanga, by M.M. Stuart (a village in
mid Bengal) referring to Scott-Moncrieff. (q.v.) 4pp.
Additional papers given by M.M. Stuart, I.C.S.
Bengal, N.W.F.P.: 1877-1944
BOX II
Xerox of MS copy of a 'Narrative of the escape of
Mrs. Mill and her children from Fyzabad, Oudh, during the great Indian Mutiny
in 1857'. 18pp. True copy. Narrative of Mrs. Mill copied from one written by
Mrs. Brown from Mrs. Mill's statement. Calcutta, November 4th 1858.
BOX III
Booklet: 'Memorandum on the Withdrawal in 1877 of
our Native Embassy from Cabul'.
Programme of the visit of Lord and Lady Wavell to
Bengal in April 1944.
Watercolour sketch of Nicholson's Monument, Margulla
Pass.
Illustrated Weekly of 8 February 1922: The Indian
Viceroyalty 1858-1922.
Poem: 'Career' by M.M. Stuart
Four unnamed undated photographs.
Street scene - India.
(-)School in India. 3 Female European (-) teachers
with children.
Group of Indian children.
Unidentified man and woman.
44 sheets.
See: Books
Tape-Recordings
(Col. Robert Stuart)
Given by T.J.A. Hunter
Microfilm Box 2 No. 21
Copies of letters written to the Begum Samru by
Robert Stuart while a prisoner at Tanesser in the Punjab, March- September
1791. Preceded by a map of the area, and an introduction by K.A. Moody-Stuart
which includes the 1: story of the Begum Samru and a list of Hindustani words
used in the letter.
Correspondence of Lt (later Lt-Col)
Geoffrey Swayne-Thomas, Royal Engineers, and his wife April, from various
places in India including the North- West Frontier, Calcutta and Sind. Mrs
Swayne Thomas drew on the letters for her book 'Indian Summer: a Mem-sahib in
India and Sind' (London 1981).
28 Items
1940 - 1953
Tape recording of interview, given 1991, by
(John) Richard Charters Symonds (b 1918), Friends Ambulance Unit, Bengal
1942-44; Deputy Director, Relief and Rehabilitation, Bengal 1944-45; Friends
Service Unit, Punjab and Kashmir 1947-48; U.N. Commission in Kashmir 1948-49.
6 cassettes 1942 – 1949
Photocopy made through the good offices of Mr S.F.
Bolt.
'The Burma Story (December 1941 - July 1942)' told
by Captain N.S. Tayabji (Indian Navy Retired) recounts the saga of the
evacuation of Burma following the Japanese advance into the country in
November-December 1941, and the massive bombing raids on Rangoon on 23rd and
25th December 1941. Captain Tayabji, at that time a representative of Tata Oil
Mills Company Ltd., 28 years of age, found himself 'catapulted' into the
Ministry of Commonwealth Affairs of the Government of India and, with the
Government Agent, Mr Hutchings, planned the evacuation of refugees from
Rangoon. Later he was ordered to set up refugee camps in Mandalay and to
represent the Agent of the Government of India in all matters involving law and
order, health clearances, issues of passes along the evacuation route and
finally to take charge of the Air Evacuation Scheme.
The memoir gives a poignant picture of the harships,
illness and tragedy which accompanied the great migration of refugees from
Mandalay in Burma to Imphal in Assam, and the devoted work against impossible
odds, of the camp administrators, the army, the civil authorities (particularly
the D.C. of Imphal) and the few educated and qualified refugees themselves. An
incident of particular horror was the Japanese bombing of the camps in Imphal.
The story closes with the author's onward journey to
Calcutta, a refugee himself and finally to Bombay where his application to join
the Indian Navy, made in 1934, was at last accepted. 47pp.
Tape recording of interview, given 1983, by
Coralie May Taylor (b 1898), on her life in India as the wife of Stanley
Grisewood Taylor (1893-1980), Indian Police, Bengal 1913-47, on her husband's
career, and on her service during the Second World War in the Women's Auxiliary
Corps (India).
1 cassette 1919 - 1947
(Mr. and Mrs. S.G. Taylor)
'49th Bengal Regiment.' TS 6 pp.
'Bengal: 1942 to the takeover in 1947', by S.G. Taylor,
Inspector-General Police, Bengal. Written January 1969. TS 20 pp. (Given by
Lady Tegart.)
'The terrorist movement in Bengal, 1930-34.' Written
March 1969. TS 16 pp.
'Congress cum terrorist activities in Bengal in
Midnapur District in 1930-31', written by F.W. Kidd, C.I.E., Indian Police
(Retired). March 1969. TS 2 pp.
'Communal tension in Bengal.' TS 5 pp.
'Murder in East Bengal.' TS 2 pp.
'Training of the police in Bengal', written for Sir
Percival Griffiths' book on the Indian police requested by Sir Percival in 1968
or 1969. TS 10 pp.
Xerox copy of newspaper cuttings about use of
fingerprint identification in Bengal.
Microfilm Box 4 No. 24B
Alpachand shoot 1929; shooting trip to the Dooars
February 1929; Gaumara, March 1929.
TS copies of letters from Mrs. Taylor in Mymensingh
and Baghmara 1932-34, home to England to her family. They are entirely personal
and present a picture of family and social life. There is very little about
India itself. Amongst the letters was a TS copy of a paper addressed to
Government on measures to prevent terrorist outrages and movements. The
measures are very extreme, and the outcome of fear. It is not signed, and no
date.
See also BELL PAPERS - File 3
Restricted
Given by Lady Tegart
BOX I
File 1:
Press cuttings on the Chowringhee murder case. (E.
Day, shot by Gopi Nath Shah in mistake for Sir Charles Tegart, on 12 January
1924):
Cuttings from The Statesman; Forward; The Englishman;
The Servant; The Telegraph; The Bengali; Amrita Bazar Patrika; Dainik Basumati;
Indian Daily News; Capital; The Mussalman; The Calcutta Homefinder; Weekly
Guardian; The DarjeeZing Times.
Two photographs of Gopi Nath Shah.
Letters of congratulation to Sir Charles Tegart on
his escape from Prafulla Kumar Biswas; S.K. Sen; H. Hobbs; A.K. Fuzlul Huq; E.
O'Brien; Hiralal Maj dar; M. Harley; Prem Nath.
Report of newspapers and periodicals in Bengal for
week ending Saturday 2 February 1924. pp. 76-95.
Cuttings of Bruce case.
File 2 and 2a:
Press cuttings on Dalhousie Square case. (Attempted
assassination of Sir Charles Tegart on 25 August 1930 by Dr. Narain Roy, Dr.
Bhupal Bose, and eight others):
Cuttings from The Times; Liberty; Amrita Bazar
Patrika; The Statesman; Moning. Post; India; Planters Journal and
Agriculturist; The Indian Municipality; The D. I. B. Weekly; Provincial
Bulletin (Delhi); The Bangalee; The Basumati; Melbourne Herald; Evening News;
Evening Standard; Communist Press; Liberty; Advance.
File 3:
Envelope with miscellaneous press cuttings: murder
of Lt. Col. N.S. Simpson, shot by Benoy Krishna Bose; photograph of Benoy
Kirshna Bose; two cuttings on Sir Charles Tegart; TS expenses account 19-30
October 1926.
BOX II
File 4:
The public resolutions passed after the bomb attempt
on Sir Charles Tegart 1930 .
File 5:
Copy of speech by Sir Charles Tegart to the Royal
Empire Society on 'Terrorism in India', 1 November 1932.
Newspaper cuttings referring to this speech from The
Englishman; Times Educational Supplement; Liberty; Amrita Bazar Patrika; The
Statesman; The Tribune.
File 6:
Miscellaneous papers to do with the attempted
assassination of Sir Charles Tegart 1930. (Judgements, statements etc.)
File 7:
Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, many about Bakr-Id
disturbances, Lord Lytton, the Bengal disturbances, and Sir Charles Tegart's
efficiency in the Police Department; from New Statesman; The Bengalee; The
Basumati; The Moslem Chronicle; The Englishman; Forward; Capital; Amrita Bazar
Patrika; The Times; The Statesmen; The New Empire; The Daily Mail; Hansard on
the Bengal Ordinance; The Commercial Gazette.
Copy of extract from a letter from His Highness the
Maharaja of Nepal, to His Excellency the Governor of Bengal, 16 February 1928.
File 8:
Copies of letters (secret) from C.W. Gwynne,
Officiating Joint Secretary to the Government of India to the Chief Secretary
to the Government of Bengal, September 1923, regarding revolutionary activity
in Bengal. (Pre-Bengal Ordinances.)
MS report on Sakyendra Nath Guha 14 February 1925
(revolutionary activities.)
Secret paper on meeting between Mahatma Gandhi and
Sir Charles Tegart on 24 June 1925 about release of prisoners in Bengal. (2
copies) TS 10 pp.
Typed note on communal tension and the terrorist movement,
the Swaraj Party and the reforms in India by Sir Charles Tegart, in answer to a
request from J.G. - Forward at the India Office. 18 May 1926. 7 pp.
Typed note on policy towards detainees of terrorist
organizations in Bengal - n.d. but after March 1927. 10 pp.
File 9:
Judgment: Emperor v. Dr. Narain Roy and others.
Confidential. Printed. Signed by H.C. Stork, Ashutosh Ghosh, Adilizzaman Khan.
27 November 1930. 41 pp.
File 10:
'Revolutionaries of Bengal: their methods and
ideals.' Published by Hemantakumar Sarkar, The Indian Book Club, Calcutta,
1923.
BOX III
File 11:
Secret notes on outrages compiled in 1917 by J.C.
Nixon, I.C.S. Vols. I-VI, 1906-17. (In Vol. VI two TS sheets with notes of
further cases relating to a date subsequent to 9 October 1918.)
BOX IV
File 11.
Memorandum by the Advisory Committee, Bengal, 1918.
Sir N.G. Chandavarkar and Justice C.P. Beachcroft. The cases of Detenus under
the Defence of India Act and Regulation III of 1918. Calcutta 1918. Note on
cover presumably by Sir Charles Tegart - 'Not published'.
File 13.
Report to Government of India from Local Government,
on Congress Activities, subsequent to the Irwin-Gandhi agreement; sent by C.A.
Turnidge to Sir Charles Tegart. 51 pp.
Files 14-16:
Annual reports of the police administration of 'the
town of Calcutta and its suburbs by C.A. Tegart, for the years 1923, 1928,
1929.
Sheet of printed information on the general
situation (on terrorist activities) by C.E.S. Fairweather. Calcutta, 15 October
1936. Part of a longer report - pp. 543-546.
Eighty photographs connected with the assassinations
and terrorist activities in which Sir Charles Tegart was involved; these are
police photographs of victims, murderers, scenes of murder etc.
Programme of an afternoon party to meet Sir Charles
Tegart, 21 February 1926.
Newspaper cutting from The Basumati, 14 June 1927,
entitled 'Riot scare in Calcutta.'
Book presented:
Tegart, Kathleen. 'Charles Tegart of the Indian
Police.' 1946-7. TS. 340 pp.
Given by Mr. Hallam Tennyson
Bengal, Bihar, Bombay, Sikkim, Assam: 1946-1948
Microfilm:
Letters from Hallam Tennyson to his parents when he
was taking part in refugee work in Italy, 1945.
1945
25 February Personal. From Italy.
8 March Personal and about Jewish refugees in Italy
and Yugoslavia.
18 March Personal
3 April Personal: on relief work.
17 April Personal.
29 April Personal: about discovery of concentration
camps.
18 June Personal: about rebuilding Italian villages.
24 July Personal: mentions 'India Project'.
Letters from Hallam and Margot Tennyson to his
parents when they went to India in 1946 and worked with the Friends Service
Unit, until the end of 1947, and up to their departure early in 1948.
n.d. Letter to Margot: First day of voyage out with
friends. Continued personal.
(Date torn off with stamp, but before Port Said).
Friends made on voyage. Segregation of Indians for eating.
(Date torn off with stamp but after Port Said).
Result of protest at discrimination. Nearly at Bombay.
(Date torn off with stamp, but after arriving in
Bombay). On arrival go to Church of Scotland mission. First impressions of
Bombay. Description of block of flats near to the mills.
1946
28 March Has been on visit to Bombay. Describes
visit to temple for first time. Also old city. Congress supporter's house. To
go to a village for language, etc. for three months.
30 march Have been at Juhu. About to go to Port
Canning. Are going to a school run on Gandhian lines.
8 April Difficulty for her in adjusting to Indian
village life. They have to make a recommendation to District Officer about
recruitment of more labour to build anti-flood dams.
13 April About political situation re possible
partition. Difficulties of starting work in village. About their life in
village and Indian life in general.
16 April Has visited a woman living next door. A
success, and the consequences with others successful. Traditional way of life
and plight of women.
19 April Making their first home. Plans for future: want
to stay in the village. Visits the Jain temples - comments on architecture.
Their daily life in the school and village. Friend who was a monk now student
of comparative religion.
22 April Visiting houses in the village, talking to
women: poverty and illness; friendliness.
26 April Working in flooded village. Exclusiveness
of Bihari family. Explanation of the worship of Kali.
4 May In Calcutta. Attend Tagore dance-drama - very
beautiful. Explanation of dances. Notes on Ramakrishna and his followers.
18 May Description of typical frustrations taken
.calmly. Other festivities attended. Hindu attitudes.
Religious revival in Bengal: assessment of
Vivekenanda.
19 May Daily routine at Canning: Hindu ideas of
cleanliness. Work at the Friends' Service Unit giving Government money to flood
victims very wearing. Unfortunate visit to Ramakrishna's temple. Mentions
Cabinet mission and withdrawal of British power. 24 May Description of child
marriage ceremony, attended.
25 May More reflections on distribution of money,
description of methods and comments.
30 May Future plans discussed.
31 May Explanation of Hindu popular cults, and basic
tenets.
7 June Hallam has been ill. Margot organizes school
outing, a description of it and the interest it arouses.
9 June Little news. Example of corruption in their
work. Go to village festival in honour of goddess of sickness Hoping to hear
Congress has accepted the Cabinet Mission's proposals.
12 June Future work uncertain. Feeling lack of
contact with educated Indians. Difficulty in distributing money in monsoon.
16 June Criticism of F.S.U. Attend another Forest
goddess festival. Entertained in a wealthy Indian house. Tours flooded areas
with the Governor of Bengal. Comments on Congress' refusal the Cabinet
Mission's proposal.
19 June Closing down flood relief work. Visits with
Indian friends, attempts to break down purdah.
23 June Asked by the F.S.U. to start entirely new
'model' scheme in a Bengal village - to build up via a model school, surveys
and contacts, health service, agricultural cooperative. Opening up of
intellectual life in Calcutta.
30 June More news of village scheme. Description of
their friends and being entertained.
7 July Thoughts on helping underdeveloped countries,
and also in new model village to be centred round community centre. Smoothing
out cross-purposes in the F.S.U. about the scheme for the village. Leave
Canning.
10 July More of future plans, and daily events.
Possibility of Brama Samaj taking over slum work..
14 July Lunches with English business magnate.
Attends Service at Brahma Samaj. Visits Thieves' Market, and Friends' Unit
industrial centre for weaving. Cost of Unit.
20 July Have been in Master Takhur's ashram: to find
God in living world. Going to train further at Wardha.
21 July More about the ashram, and Takhur: Also
going to Santiniketan, Tagore's International University.
24 July Looking for a site near Barsirhat for
'model' scheme. Pro's and cons of various sites.
28 July Difficulties in choosing site. Discussions -
Preliminary farm plans. Effect of Indian life and religious atmosphere on them.
1 August Plans for Settlement going ahead. Grant
towards road. Kindness of people. Plans for buildings.
4 August Plans going ahead for settlement,
description of proposed buildings. Meal in Moslem house.
Communal tension in Barsirhat and not in villages.
5 August Hold first poetry reading. Great success.
Plans for its future. Work of the Unit and its difficulties.
Gandhi and Muslim League. Margot running spinning
class.
9 August At Tagore's University, Santiniketan, on
the anniversary of his death. Description of the day, including charming
tree-planting ceremony. See Tagore's paintings: comments.
12 August Further description. and comments on
Santiniketan and Tagore's aims and theories, their success and failure.
Comments on atmosphere and surroundings. See village work.
16 August Describes visit to one of F.S.U.'s
community centres. Comments on increase in their work, and lack of initiative
in practical work by Indians, and no training for it.
19 August Experience the rioting in Calcutta. Very
brief description as they are both working in rescue operations.
Undated Half a letter about visit to Gandhi. Meet
him at Muslim house. His attitude to Pakistan. After prayers he makes usual
speech attacking purdah, and speaks on emancipation. Description of his daily
routine - comments on obstructions to his mission. H. and M. go a walk with him
in evening. Consideration of Gandhi's greatness.
Visit a woman doctor to discuss midwifery centre;
poetry group; proposals for putting Shakespeare on the radio.
25 August Very detailed description, Wardha and
meeting with Gandhi. Meet the people engaged in the basic educational
programme: comments.
Calcutta
30 August Comments on the effect of Wardha.
Calcutta
31 August Comments on the political situation in
India, especially concept of Pakistan. Brief description of
Sevagram, and Gandhian economics.
7 September More plans for building and organizing
the settlement.
9 September Personal, and comments on film. Plans
for the settlement.
16 September Recovering from illness. Personal.
12 September In Barsihat before settling in
Raghabpur where settlement will be. Small details of life, including remarks on
tension in Calcutta.
19 September Floods. Hallam recovering. Going to
Puri.
22 September Recovering still. Margot not well.
Personal thoughts and reflections on literature and European politics.
27 September Recovering slowly. Puri trip delayed.
Reflections on literature read.
30 September Still delays in departure owing
illness. Shopping upset by riots in Calcutta. Search for folk pottery, etc.
Communal feeling spreading out to villages, and the difficulties this places on
settlement scheme.
4 October On holiday, by the sea at Puri.
Description of daily life, and of a Durga puja. Recuperating.
7. October Description of Puri, and of
characteristic art forms of area. Reaction of English in hotel to 's dhoti at
dinner.
12 October Further description of Durga. Festival at
Juggernath Temple.
13 October Have visited caves near Puri. Other odd
details about life in Puri.
18 October Have just arrived in pouring rain at
village, Raghabpur. Living in dispensary. Starting fortnightly poetry group in
Calcutta. Kali Puja coming. Reading books on Yoga by Vivekananda.
20 October Unseasonable pouring rain. Unsuitability
of the building for dispensary. Attitude of the village people detailed.
Remarks about Indian politics - thinks civil war cannot be averted.
25 October For Kali Puja at Ramakrishna Mission in
Calcutta. Communal situation worsening in Calcutta.
Raghabpur still untouched 50-50 Hindu-Muslim
population. Attend the religious celebration at the Ramakrishna Centre for
eight hours and begin to understand the Energy principle embodied in Kali.
31 October Description of life in dispensary. Making
a garden. The sunrise and sunsets. Have got permission for a sand road. Notes
on international politics: the English theatre.
5 November Have begun touring the villages, welcomed
everywhere, making survey. Remarks on the people & and work. Personal.
8 November Been planting vegetable garden. Having
difficulty with land. Plays in football match with village. Ends with passage
on the seriousness of the situation.
13 November Meet American members of F.S.U.. Negro
couple. Meet the Calcutta Swamiji of the Ramakrishna Mission and discuss
religious studies with him. Starting to study Islam. Finish the survey of the
villages. Getting data about women and children abducted in riotous areas of
East Bengal.
17 November Scheme at standstill owing to no land
available at reasonable price, and money for road fallen through. They don't
really believe in the scheme. Better filling in gaps. Not enough time.
21 November Rain again - upsetting plans. Describes
preparations with whole village for visitors. Personal.
28 November Getting drugs for dispensary. Other
welfare plans going ahead. May go to All India Women's Conference in C.P.
6 December Leaving village until land can be
obtained reasonably. Doctor and Indian member staying. Meet Mr. Singha who
started craft work in Tagore's university and Sevagram, and is now in Assam at
Gandhi's suggestion.
9 December Have started making friends and meeting
people outside the Unit. Popularity of the poetry society. Reaching wide audience.
Decision on their new work. Margot's social work in slums. Hallam: Calcutta
work on village scheme. Hopes to get Gandhian worker to help. Leaving village
with farewell speech and explanations.
13 December Description of farewell meeting. Land
offers pour in and then evaporate. Opinion that only way
for scheme to develop is very slowly from within -
the Gandhian way. Personal.
15 December President of Kasturba Gandhi Memorial
Trust enthusiastic about helping the scheme. Go to an exhibition, Art in Industry.
Meet a man who organized scheme. Long comment on Indian mentality and outlook
compared with English. Fate of traditional art in India.
21 December Free land has been offered for the
scheme. Evening with sita and tobbla players.
23 December Discussion of situation in Unit.
Responsibilities and work. Indians and Europeans. Their inability to see how
much work and responsibility could be taken by Indians in Unit. Necessity of
different approach and great patience.
26 December Description of Christmas. Attend
Ramakrishna Mission celebration of the Nativity - very charming. Go to an
enormous private collection of Rajput art.
29 December Opening dispensary Raghabpur (Margot at
Conference). Indian workers will run dispensary. Describes midnight service at
Cathedral. Going to two of Tagore's nieces for reading practice in Bengali.
Description of them. About the scheme and its progress.
1947
6 January Policy committee meetings. Measuring land
in village. Difficulties in organization.
11 January Difficulties in Unit. Beginning to build
village. Has trained village worker, and taking trainee medical student. Plans
for touring South - Hallam to visit Gandhi.
24 January Work progressing in village. Staying with
Muslim family: their kindness.
31 January Hallam visiting Calcutta. Visits various
work of the units, especially a fishing cooperative. Saraswati puja described.
Trying to improve living quarters of staff, and make staff conscious of keeping
things tidier and cleaner. Started survey of Raghabpur.
3 February Has visited Ramakrishna Mission again,
and attends celebration for Romain Rolland's 80th birthday. Dr. Kalidas Nag
there - describes meeting with him. Very successful poetry meeting - Malayalam
recited et al.
6 February Living in small room in the Muslim household.
Personal. At Raghabpur.
10 February About the village. Type of helpers.
Discussion on purdah and what it means. Villagers and 'happiness'. Work of the
Unit. Meetings with fishing cooperatives.
13 February Changes in Unit. Many things to do in
the village centre before going on leave.
14 February (To Miss Cornelia Curle) Describes work
of village centre. Describes what they would have liked to have done.
Difference between English and Indian feminists. Still ill, and Margot has
malaria.
17 February Personal.
25 February Personal.
5 March Both convalescing. Going on holiday to the
hills. Mentions young artist, Amrita Sher Gil.
2 March Still ill. Plans fluid. Personal.
9 March Plans for going to Kalimpong for holiday.
Personal.
13 March Planning village survey News of village and
the kindness and cooperation there.
18 March Description of journey from Calcutta to
Kalimpong hotel. Cold. Go hunting for bargains in bazaar. Very good description
of scenery and town. 2pp.
20 March On holiday. Working on her book. Infant
mortality rates. In Kalimpong. Describes proprietor of hotel.
23 March Personal. Still in hotel. Describes the
Scots/Tibetan/Sikkim father of the proprietor - collection of Tibetan
paintings. A lama dances for them. Detailed description.
25 March To forest bungalow.
28 March In forest bungalow 6,300 feet up.
Friendliness of hill people. Description of country.
2 April Description of quiet daily life.
4 April Entirely personal about his brother with TS
copy.
6 April Personal.
Copy of telegram to Sir Charles Tennyson.
13 April Describes trip to Gangtok to stay at
Residency, the country and people. In Calcutta organising first Shakespeare
performance on radio to be given by Indian actors.
Date Indecipherable Just leaving Gangtok where they
had stayed in Residency guest house. (Hopkinson the Resident). They are left
alone. Description of beauty of Sikkhim.
16 April. In. the village again. Establishing the
women social workers from the Gandhi Kasturbha Trust. A lot of work in village
to do.
20 April Describes work to be done in Calcutta and
Shakespeare rehearsals. Personalities of actors.
24 April Visiting evening classes and description of
folk-play. In village. Shakespeare performance goes well.
26 April Difficulties in getting anything done for
building in Calcutta. Afraid for Partition in Bengal and repercussions.
Repercussions of Shakespeare performance on radio. Poetry reading very
successful Comment on Bengali poetry.
4 May Working with two women social workers in
fishermen's quarters. Digging latrines and encouraging spinning. Unrest
beginning to filter through to villages.
4 May Comments on 'Indianisation'. Different views
on proper work of the Unit. Comment on Gandhian economics.
9 May Conference for field-workers. Reaction of
village to cholera injections. Gradual increase of work in villages -
agricultural etc.
12 May Plans for adult education in village.
Description of conference. Importance of literary contacts.
14 May Attitude towards the Unit, and Unit and
village work.
21 May Two performances by Jossimoddin the Muslim
poet and his troupe.
25 May More on work of Unit. Comments on the tension
in India at the time. Have had performance of song and dance by Bengali folk
troupe. Rains bring work to an end. Trying to link adult literary classes to
cooperation, health, etc. Another successful poetry reading.
28 May Asked to sit on Committee for an All-Indian
Conference on Pacifists. In country, working on scheme to use all waste grounds
near the house for gardens, to grow more food for poor. Have made beginnings -
slow work.
8 June Future plans for living in religious
atmosphere for remaining months after contract. Fears for their villages if
Partition comes owing to critical position. Comments on whole idea.
12 June Personal.
13 June Making some slow progress in village work.
Trouble in fishing cooperatives.
15 June News from the villages - Fishing
cooperative. Comments on Unit. Poetry society flourishing.
19 June Adult education and aboriginals. Starting
dispensary. Giving film show.
22 June Realise they can just begin social work with
experience they have. Fears for future if idea of Pakistan comes into being as
Government will not be interested in the road, etc. They are on the borderland.
Difficulties in getting village committees because of agricultural commitments.
28 June Describes her method of teaching in the
community and in village work.
28 June Daily routine in running the village.
Schools, etc. Community life. Describes Gandhian approach to social welfare.
30 June Feels alienation with British attitudes and
life in India. Planning more Shakespeare for All India Radio. Poetry Society.
1 July Continuing social work. Teaching children
crafts. Child marriages.
8 July Unit difficulties. Medical centre opens as
cooperative. Calcutta at bursting point. Meets artist. Poetry society founded.
13 July Personal.
19 July No need for worry over them in Calcutta.
Domestic notes. Very interested in pottery.
20 July Feels now completely at home in village
life. Description of wedding, particularly sensitive from bride's viewpoint.
Feels able to do far more for village now. Cooperative starting well in Pipha.
22 July Describes a mela
24 July Learnt village technique of painting pots.
Plans for community centre. Some trouble, rioting and stabbing in Calcutta.
Prices rocketing - Majorie Sykes at the Unit.
30 July Commenting on his and Margot's different
adaptability to Bengali life.
3 August Painting pots with natural dyes - Visitors.
Sees birth with Centre's midwife. Reaction of village. Unit plans.
4 August Results of survey of Raghbapur village
beginning to come in. Brief description of groups of people in village,
land-tax, etc. The Bunos described. Conference on social work successful.
8 August Remarks on midwifery and medical centres in
Pipha and Raghbapur - difficulties, and with Bengali women workers.
14 August Meets poet. Midwifery section going.
Finished Bengali pamphlet. Going on holiday to island in Hooghley - quite
deserted.
16 August From the island. Independence only from a
distance with noises from the shore of rejoicing. Peace on the island.
18 August Description of the island. Independence
passed quietly. Partition has darkened the joy. But incredible joy everywhere.
The credit that is due to Gandhi. Estimation of him politically - comment on
Lady Mountbatten.
24 August Medical cooperative has 120 members.
Sub-centre and midwifery centre and hospital open in Pipha. Starting a village
library. Intends to go to Bihar to see Basic Education Centre.
21 August Short letter accompanying the rules of the
Calcutta Poetry Society.
24 August Comments on the communal unity in Calcutta
on Independence Day and immediately after.
29 August Have the bad news from the Punjab - other
difficulties.
1 September Account of trying to persuade the
Radhbapur people to join medical cooperative. Violence has started in Calcutta.
5 September Experiences of violence in Calcutta.
Effect of Gandhi's fast felt in three days. More bad news from Punjab. All this
makes village work very slow.
8 September Depressing rain and the riots. Gandhi
and the rioting. Comments on the situation in India.
14 September Members of Unit gone to Punjab at
Nehru's invitation Other members living in a badly affected Muslim bustee,
doing work of reconciliation
15 September Poetry Society successful. Problems in
Unit again. Studying religious singing in village with a Brahmin - very
difficult.
19 September Appendix operation probable. News of
school. Going to Assam for Government festival of Hill Peoples, dances and
songs, etc. West Bengal starting basic education.
22 September Personal.
25 September Still waiting to see whether operation
is necessary. Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust want to send more village
workers to her village scheme. Serious food situation.
28 September Written from Bihar where studying basic
education. Describes Patna - Old and New - goes to Brindapan, a division where
there are 27 Basic Schools.
4 October About health. Plans for proposed religious
studies.
6 October Margot to have operation. Friendliness of
Indians with Europeans who mix naturally with them. Meets Professor Ganguly -
art historian.
14 October Difficulties over work of medical
programme. Comments on Forster's Passage to India. More about Basic Education
Schools.
14 October Personal.
22 October Describes his life style in the village.
Personal.
23 October Personal.
27 October Margot progressing well. Hallam gives
party for Independence to field-workers on the river
30 October Personal.
2 November Difficulty of being fully absorbed into
India. Village plans.
5 November Personal.
9 November Meets wife of I.A.S. in Assam. Views on
British. Charming description of shopping in Calcutta - counterbalanced by
description of corruption, unreliability, etc.
12 November From Bombay - visit Portuguese fishing
village. Description of Diwali in Bombay.
17 November Working hard on the hand-over to the
couple taking their place. Describes work.
21 November Personal. Describes friends' flat - full
of art treasures.
24 November Difficulties in the medical centre.
28 November In Bombay. Remarks on art.
4 December Personal, but about Indian atmosphere and
life
5 December Fundamental disbelief in work of Unit.
11 December Winding up work. Written report on the
two surveys. Met the Swamiji of Ramakrishna Ashram in Himalayas where they hope
to go.
17 December Not going to Himalayas, but to Bombay.
Other plans.
18 December Trying to finish work before handing
over. His own adaptation to Indian life. '
19 December Personal
25 December Very sad farewell to villages
26 December Impressed by high-up Indian officials.
Entertain Horace Alexander. Describes the sadness of leaving the villages.
Details of Staff troubles. Describes Christmas.
29 December Personal.
31 December Personal, about arrangements for leaving
Calcutta.
1948
6 January Description of visiting various Indian
friends, and also films. Farewells. Last minute arrangements.
10 January Leaving Calcutta. Describes Gaya, its
architecture and atmosphere.
11 January Written from Gaya, U.P. More about
farewell. Sees Ganguly's collection of Rajput paintings.
Description of the temple at Gaya.
15 January From Benares. Description of the city.
Crafts.
21 January On way to Bombay. Description of Sanchi -
to Malad near Bombay again. Trains difficult because of disturbances. Has
written report on Indian Pacifist Conference.
21 January Written at Sanchi Railway Station. Vivid
description of Benares - pictorially and atmospherically. Remarks on Quaker
missions and principles.
25 January Description of living in Bombay -
Pacifist Congress and members. Some members perturbed at Indian government's
policy regarding pacifism, Gandhi only a figure-head. Description of difficult
railway journey.
26 January Personal.
29 January Resting. Beginning religious studies. A
P.S. about the news of Gandhi's assassination.
31 January About Gandhi's death and what it means
personally and to India. Reading Vaishnavite theology
1 February at same time as New Testament. Remarks on
the two works and on their religious attitudes.
5 February About religious studies and quiet life
they are leading.
8 February Account of Sarojini Naidu's speech on
Gandhi's death. Explanation of the Vaishnavite beliefs and other theology
14 February Explanation of basic tenets of Hindu
faith. Contrasts with Christianity. Studying Tantric mysticism.
14 February Daily life: description of countryside;
burial of Gandhi's ashes. Note on the Bhagavad-Gita.
20 February Personal. Meets Mr. H.L. Wadia, the
theosophist.
23 February Description of Bombay and surrounding
countryside and coast. Comments on theosophy. Daily routine and personal
spiritual life. Studying Shakti cult.
28 February Account of quiet meditative life. Hear
of their village in Bengal.
29 February Margot not well. They will return early.
Personal. Comments on India as a 'democracy'.
9 March Arrangements for leaving.
10 March Personal.
Undated Part of a letter from on voyage home.
Papers written by Hallam and Margot Tennyson from
India 1946-48.
TS Concentrated Project of the Friends Service Unit
in the Basirhat Sub-Division. (Emendations on Programme I, September 1946, in
the light of 4 months' work on the Scheme). January 1947.
Outline of a social service scheme in two villages
in a sub-division. 4pp.
Printed analysis sheet (blank) for family case work
in social survey.
TS copy of Minutes of the Pipha-Raghabpur Staff
Meeting held on 10.3.47.
Reports of the various social workers, showing
reaction to the workers' enquiries and suggestions.
TS copy of letter from Margot Tennyson - I June 1947
- to Colin Bell of Far Eastern Desk, American Friends Service Committee,
Philadelphia, in reply to his 'Thoughts on the future of the Far East
Programme'. The letter sets out the specifically Indian problems in relation to
the Friends' social service programmes, and the Unit in Calcutta. 3pp.
TS copy of Round Robin letter No. 1 from Margot
Tennyson (29 June 1947) at Raghabpur village centre, about her life and work
there. 4pp.
TS copy of Raghabpur Community Centre plan written
about 8 months' work. Aims: Practical implications: education, etc. by Margot
Tennyson, 1 July 1947. 4pp.
Cyclostyled TS copy of Pipha/Raghabpur Village
Centre, Bulletin No.2 August 1947. Covering all aspects of aims and work of the
Centre. 10pp. and map.
TS copy of First Draft of the book, Social and
Economic Survey of 3 Bengal Villages, by Margot Tennyson. 4pp.
TS article by Hallam Tennyson: Ramakrishna and
Vivekananda through Western Eyes. 4pp.
MS of short story. Revolutionaries, by Hallam
Tennyson. 20pp.
Three diaries/notebooks for the years 1946-48:
Hallam Tennyson
Detailed diary - 28 February-21 June, 1946.
Detailed diary of the events from 23 June-29 August,
1946.
Notes and draft for novel.
Detailed diary: 11 February-3 March, 1947
8 April-10 May, 1948 with other miscellaneous notes
of a later date.
Thomas Collection: papers, dated c 1913-60
but mainly 1944-60, of Sir Roger Thomas (1886-1960), Indian Agricultural
Service, Madras 1913, serving in Mesopotamia 1917-25; Managing Director, Sind
Land Development Company 1932-60; Agricultural Adviser to Government of Sind
1944-52; member, Pakistan Agricultural Enquiry Committee 1951-52; chiefly
relating to agricultural and development planning in Sind, Pakistan and India.
740 items
1913 - 1960 View Contents
List
Tyson Collection: papers of Sir John Dawson
Tyson (1893-1976), Indian Civil Service, Bengal 1920-47; Secretary to Agent of
the Government of India in South Africa 1927-30; Private Secretary to Governor
of Bengal 1930-35, 1938, 1945-47; chiefly comprising weekly letters home
(1920-47) giving detailed accounts of his activities both private and official.
48 items
1920 - 1947 View Contents
List
Papers of Francis Watson (1907-87), Art
Adviser to Raja of Aundh 1938; Director, Counter-Propaganda, Government of
India 1940; Director, Research and Reference, Information Dept, Government of
India 1945-46; including correspondence with his parents commenting on life in
India, radio scripts, essays and photographs; also letters and papers of and
relating to Apasaheb Balasaheb Pant (b 1912), Indian diplomat from 1948.
17 items
1938 - 1982 View Contents
List
Wavell Collection: xerox copies of papers
of Field Marshal Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883- 1950),
as Viceroy of India 1943-47.
18 volumes 1943 - 1947 View Contents List
Tape recording of interview, given 1990, by
Winifred Edith Wenger (b 1906), wife of Rev Edward Leslie Wenger, describing
her education, work and experiences as a Baptist missionary mainly teaching in
Calcutta and Serampore, before and after marriage (1934).
1 cassette 1934 - 1965
(Mr. F. C. Williams, tea planter, and Mrs.
Williams).
Bengal; Assam; N.W.F.P.: 1927-1959 45 pp.
Five letters to family in England from Elswitha and
Fred Williams, written from: Calcutta and Kokrajar in 1934; from Murree and
Deccan College Poona in 1944. Early ones are about shooting trips, later ones
domestic.
a) Miscellaneous letters from domestic servants and
employees of F. C. Williams of Octavius Steel Co. Ltd. Calcutta and London.
b) Two letters of 1944 from daughter of Williams'
ayah requesting financial help to perform Muslim burial ceremony for her
mother.
c) Letter from Indian staff of Tea Estate, Sibsagar,
Assam to 'Messrs. Octavius Steel and Co. London' sending Christmas and New
Year's greetings.
d) Various
examples of 'Babu English' 3 newspaper cuttings, including obituary of Fr.
Douglas of Oxford Mission to Calcutta.
Letters of John Younie (1893-1942), Indian
Civil Service, Bengal 1916-42, District and Sessions Judge 1925-42, comprising
originals, typescript transcripts, and an edited and abridged version compiled
by his wife Dr Dorothy Younie, describing his work and daily life in various
parts of Bengal; with an article by Dr Dorothy Younie on life in Chittagong.
23 items
1910 - 1966 View Contents
List
This consists of 40 cassettes of Interviews with
leaders of the Communist, Peasant and Labour Movements of Bangladesh and India.
The details are:
Comrade Amal Sen (83), leader of the 'Tebhaga'
peasant movement in Bengal, led by the Communist Party. Interviewed by Shahriar
Kabir in Dhaka on 16.5.97-23.5.97. Bengali. (GC8/166-172)
Writer Mohashweta Devi, leader of the 'Adivasi'on
bonded labour and tribal movements. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta,
on 16.12.96. Bengali. (GC8/164)
Comrade Ila Mitra, leader of the Tebhaga and Nachol
peasant
uprisings, ex-MLA, leader of CPI. Interviewed by
Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta, on 18.12.96. Bengali. (GC8/162-163)
Comrade Ranesh Das Gupta (87), writer, journalist,
former organizer of a pro-communist cultural movement of Bangladesh.
Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta, on 15.7.97-29.7.97. Bengali.
(GC8/209-216)
Comrade Robi Niogi (89), leader of Tebhaga and the
CPB. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Sherpur, Bangladesh, on 4.5.97. Bengali.
(GC8/175-176)
Comrade Mohadev Sanyal on labour and peasant
movements in the 40s and 50s. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Mymensingh,
Bangladesh, on 7.5.97. Bengali. (GC8/173-174)
Justice Debesh Bhattacharya (84) on communal
problems, politics and society of Bengal. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in
Dhaka, on 21.4.97. Bengali. (GC8/195)
Comrade Rejia Khatoon, ex-Congress and CPB leader on
the women's movement. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Mymensingh, Bangladesh,
on 6.5.97. Bengali.
Comrade Kanak Mukherjee, leader of CPI (M), wife of
late communist leader Saroj Mukerjee. . Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in
Calcutta, on 11.4.97. Bengali. (GC8/193)
Congress leader Monoranjan Dhar (96) on politics and
society of Bengal and Bangladesh, Liberation War. Interviewed by Shahriar
Kabir, in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, on 5.5.97. Bengali. (GC8/194)
Comrade Abani Lahiri (87) of the CPI, on the Tebhaga
peasant uprising. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta, on 2.2.99.
Bengali. (GC8/221-222)
Comrade Ramen Sen (90) ex MP, first C.C. member of
the CPI, during the formation. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta, on
29.10.98. Bengali. (GC8/217-218)
Prof.
Samar Guha (80), ex MP and General Secretary of the Forward Block and Proja
Socialist Party. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta, on 9.5.98.
Bengali. (GC8/219- 220)
Niharenda Dutta Majumdar (93) of the Indian National
Congress and Indian Labour Party, on the Anti-British Freedom Struggle. Interviewed
by Shahriar Kabir, in Calcutta, on 27.1.98. Bengali. (GC8/227-228)
Comrade Pannalal Das Gupta (96) of the RCPI, on the
Anti-British Freedom Struggle and the Communist Movement of India. Interviewed
by Shahriar Kabir, in Shantiniketon, West Bengal, on 17.1.98. Bengali.
(GC8/225-226)
Comrade Sharadindu Dastidar, former CPI leader,
Revolutionary Communist League, on the Communist Movement of India and
Bangladesh. Interviewed by Shahriar Kabir, in Chittagong, Bangladesh, on 8.7.99.
Bengali. (GC8/ 223-224)
Urdu poet Kaifi Ajmi on the pro-communist cultural
movement (IPTA) of Bangladesh and India and the Bangladesh Liberation War, and
Shawkat Kaifi, actress, former IPTA activist, and wife of Kaifi. Interviewed by
Shahriar Kabir, in Mumbay, India, on 16.1.97. Urdu. (GC8/191)
On Santhal Pot and songs on Netajee Subhas Bose,
leader of the Freedom Struggle of India. Recorded by Shahriar Kabir in Barasat,
West Bengal at a handicraft fair on 29.1.00
A
Central Index of Merchant Seaman was introduced in October 1913, and continued
in use until 1941. The index takes the form of a number of card indexes,
containing in total over one and quarter million cards. There are 4 main series
of index cards held here, two arranged alphabetically and two arranged by the
number of the individual’s discharge book.
CR1
Series - This is the main series of alphabetically arranged cards. It covers
1913-1941, although the majority of the pre-1921 cards of seamen no longer in
service were weeded out and destroyed during the 1960’s.
CR2
Series - The series of CR2 cards run alongside the CR1 series, covering the
same period of 1913-1941, but as with the CR1’s, were also weeded out in the
1960 ’s. The CR2’s are arranged by the individual’s discharge number, rather
than by name. However the series of CR1 cards generally provides an index
to this
less accessible series.
CR10
Series - This alphabetical series covers the years 1918-1921, partly filling
the gap caused by the destruction of the earlier cards from the main two series
of CR1s and CR2. The CR10s were created for a very particular purpose: to issue
merchant seamen with identify cards during World War 1. For this reason, women
are not usually included in the index (although one card for a woman has been
found). Neither does this part of the index cover seamen engaged on home trade.
The
Combined Series - This series was created (for reasons unknown) by pulling
together cards from the other three series. Combinations of CR1s, CR2s and
CR10s for an individual are included, all arranged by the individual’s
discharge number. Cards are often included which fall outside the 1918-1941
time period; some have entries as late at the 1950s. Since this series has no
alphabetical index, it is less accessible to search than the others.
R641516
GOOD S M 14/02/1939 CALCUTTA. 1913-1972
(PRO Reference BT
372/1900/138)
R652006
RICHARDSON A W 26/05/1939 CALCUTTA. 1913-1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/1951/161)
R660398
HAWATSON R B 10/03/1939 CALCUTTA. 1913-1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/1992/60)
R668227
GUNNING P J 02/01/1941 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2030/7)
R672609
PAGE M W 02/09/1939 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2047/207)
R682113
TAYLOR C M 27/09/1940 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2086/63)
R682587
MERSH G F 17/08/1939 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972
(PRO Reference BT
372/2088/56)
R693597
GOSS A B 22/07/1942 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972
(PRO Reference BT
372/2138/63)
R695684
BLACK W W 14/08/1940 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972
(PRO Reference BT
372/2148/36)
R695848
EWING A 24/08/1940 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972
(PRO Reference BT
372/2148/171)
R696464
ASHURST P G 17/08/1941 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2151/88)
R696556
SUTHERLAND PILCH H 08/11/1940 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT
372/2151/169)
R696965
THOMSON D L 22/09/1941 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2154/31)
R697345
WARD D J 25/07/1942 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972
(PRO Reference BT
372/2155/156)
R711560
BARTLEY R S 28/07/1942 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2218/191)
R713974
STAUNTON E V P 06/03/1939 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT
372/2229/135)
R713981
ANDREWS K B T 13/09/1939 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT
372/2229/141)
R719558
MACKIE P C 18/07/1942 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2254/123)
R727696
STONE HOUSE R D 03/09/1944 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2290/161)
R738007
MORGAN E T 27/10/1942 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2334/57)
R740500
CORNISH J W H 28/09/1943 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT
372/2344/177)
R747308
HALL R C M 31/03/1945 CALCUTTA.1913 - 1972
(PRO Reference BT
372/2372/89)
R749833
MILLAR A D 10/10/1942 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2382/53)
R750502
WOODWARD B R 26/06/1945 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2384/191)
R752062
DALY M P 18/08/1940 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2390/67)
R752366
PERIERA B E 17/12/1928 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT
372/2391/208)
R753832
GARDNER W 16/10/1944 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972
(PRO Reference BT
372/2397/87)
R759104
SMITH G M 17/08/1944 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2417/105)
R765159
WATSON A W 11/02/1939 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2440/202)
R766321
SEAMAN R O C 04/11/1942 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT
372/2445/18)
R769096
BOOTH R G T 22/01/1945 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT
372/2455/164)
R770587
BRICE J R H 09/10/1945 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT
372/2461/81)
R771650
WHALEY G H 13/12/1942 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2465/141)
R777703
EDWARDS M L 02/01/1945 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT
372/2488/185)
R778851
BLEASE J C 18/08/1939 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2493/42)
R778898
CAMPBELL L M 10/03/1939 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2493/84)
R781602
HANN P S 01/11/1945 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2504/114)
R783687
AV J 16/11/1939 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972
(PRO Reference BT
372/2512/60)
R793205
HENDERSON N H P 06/02/1946 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT
372/2548/96)
R794881
FORBES V L 21/11/1941 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2554/159)
R795497
DOWMAN F J 03/02/1941 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2557/81)
R796978
EWING W T 15/09/1942 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972
(PRO Reference BT
372/2563/79)
R798867
SEN G KA 21/01/1940 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972
(PRO Reference BT
372/2570/67)
R802256
CLARK A B 07/01/1946 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972
(PRO Reference BT
372/2582/91)
R805622
D'SOUZA I M 15/12/1940 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2596/188)
R806467
DUNN T J 25/08/1948 CALCUTTA INOLIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2600/127)
R817158
DIAS I E 04/01/1940 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972
(PRO Reference BT
372/2642/136)
R817405
JOHNSTONE S D 01/12/1941 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2643/137)
R819487
GIBSON M H 09/08/1948 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2651/58)
R831090
MCPHERSON I A W 24/01/1945 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2693/111)
R837539
LANG K L 29/10/1939 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972
(PRO Reference BT
372/2717/119)
R845567
COOPER G A 22/06/1948 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2745/50)
R847081
DALTON N P J 07/01/1950 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT
372/2750/137)
R852405
PARKER I H 19/06/1947 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2769/118)
R872459
BRASS S A 16/04/1951 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972
(PRO Reference BT
372/2838/147)
R877426
WALLACE A L 19/09/1949 CALCUTTA, INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT
372/2855/28)
R890227
HOLIDAY A 20/01/1946 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2894/157)
R890417
GLENDAY A R W 18/07/1944 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2895/81)
R894973
VALLALLY R V J 15/09/1942 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT
372/2907/154)
R895330
MCMAHON IL 21/02/1948 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2908/162)
R895346
CRANSTON RT 22/08/1943 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2908/169)
R907640
SMITH P G H 29/10/1945 CALCUTTA INDIA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT
372/2938/108)
IND43025
LOPEZ N J 19/10/1946 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972
(PRO Reference BT
372/2987/38)
S98768
SHAHID AC 28/05/1946 DUNDUM CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/2999/31)
S99107
MARTYR D T 04/08/1945 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/3000/132)
T20301
ZAHEER R 09/11/1940 CALCUTTA. 1913 - 1972
(PRO Reference BT
372/3002/48)
R631359 ULLAH A SYLHET BENGAL. 1913-1972 (PRO Reference BT 372/1849/32
R820325 BOOTH E G W 16/11/1948 WEST BENGAL
INDIA. 1913 – 1972 (PRO
Reference BT
372/2654/41)
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These materials include the files of the Record
Department, its predecessor Registry and Record Department, and (up to 1959)
the India Office Library. The Record Department was responsible for
ecclesiastical returns (see N below), for the receipt of Indian official
publications (see V below) and maps (see X and Y below), for Parliamentary
Papers, and for enquiries involving use of the records. As such it was the
direct antecedent of the administration of the India Office Records. Between
1859 and 1880 the Record Department kept a series of telegrams to and from
India in all departments.
Records of the Press Officer (later the Adviser on
Publicity Questions) and his department, which dealt with the communication of
official policy to press and public.
The India Office archive collection of British
Indian central and provincial government publications, maintained by the Record
Department (see L/R above) until 1947. The collection also includes India
Office reference sets of British statutes, parliamentary journals, debates and
papers, and other British publications relating to Indian affairs.
Numbers vol.1.no.132, etc / Dates 19 Jan.1933 - 30
April 1940; 22 Jan.1942 - 31 May, 12 July - 10 Aug. 1949 / Dates 1 Jan. - 31 May,
10 July - 17 Dec. 1941; 30, 31 May, 12-27 July 1949 on microfilm.
Notes: Not published between 31 May and 12 July
1949.
Numbers no.1-1039 / Dates 15 Nov.1924 - 22 Feb.1947
/ On Microfilm.
Numbers: no.513-545,553,1232-3010 / Dates: 27
Oct.1898 - 3 Aug.1899; 28 Nov.1912 - 23 Dec.1920; Jan.1928 - 3 June 1948 on
microfilm
Notes: Wanting July-Dec.1933, Jan.- June 1941.
Numbers vol.1.no.1 - vol.4.no.13 / Dates 24 Feb.1945
- 16 Feb.1946
Notes Wanting vol.2.no.6.
Numbers no.1-688 / Dates 10 Jan.1944 - 2 Dec.1945
Notes: Discontinued in Calcutta continued by that of
"S E A C" published in Singapore.
The Sunday issues are entitled "Sunday S E A
C".
Numbers vol.5.no.1, etc / Dates: Jan.1911 - Jan., July
- Sept.1917; Jan.1918 - Oct.1920; July 1921 - May, Aug., Sept.1922; April 1923
- Feb.1932; Aug.1932 - June 1939; March 1941 - Nov.1942 / On microfilm.
Notes: Wanting Jan.1924; Jan.1942.
Numbers vol.3.no.[1], etc / Dates 7 Jan.1888 -
Jan.1952
Numbers no.15475-17350,20446,etc / Dates 6 Dec.1922
- 21 Sept.1966, 9 Nov.1966 - 31 Dec.1970 / : Dec.1921 - Dec.1970 on microfilm.
Notes Including the "Sunday Statesman"
from 1939 onward.
Numbers vol.88.no.13 - vol.102.no.52; [New series.]
no.1-795,889-943,11 23-1722,1827-6409 / Dates 1 April 1909 - 23 March 1939; 9
Jan.1941 - 22 Jan.1942; 5 July 1945 - 29 Dec.1956; 3 Jan.1959 - 27 Dec.1975.
Notes on Microfilm only July 1894-Dec.1923; 1951-75.
Numbers vol.6.no.248, etc. / Dates 1 Jan.1939-27
Dec.1979 on microfilm.
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The 'W' class designates maps from other classes in the
records and chiefly consists of maps associated with volumes and files in India
Office Departmental Papers series. With these are kept the Political and Secret
Department separate map collection (W/LPS), and the Aden Records map collection
(W/R20). The 'X' class is the India Office reference collection of maps,
maintained by the Geographical Department and, after 1884, by the Record
Department (see L/R above). The collection includes manuscript and printed
maps, plans, charts, drawings, atlases and geographical memoirs, relating to
India and adjacent countries, and to East India Company shipping routes. The
'Y' class is an extension of the 'X' class and accommodates the India Office
Record Department archive sets of topographical and small-scale map series,
produced chiefly by the Survey of India in line with the recommendations of the
1904-05 Indian Survey Committee.
A comical rather than ferocious lion!
gouache 1943 - 1944 Indian school
pencil and water-colour 1937 - 1949 British
school
Photographers: Robert Charles Case
Contents: 164 negatives 60x90mm Safety film
negatives (from nitrate originals)
Provenance: Presented by R.C. Case
Notes: Complete collection comprises Photo
390/1-6
Subjects: mountain scenery - Himalayas
Description: Collection of duplicate
negatives on modern safety film made from nitrate originals now destroyed.
No prints have been made of this material.
The collection can be broken down into two broad groups:
1-100 These photographs record a leave
spent by Robert and Joan Case travelling in Sikkim during May 1941. A brief
(and factually uninformative) account of this holiday expedition was published
in The B.B. and C.I. Annual for 1941 (pp.26-31) under the title Simpletons in
Sikkim. A more personal typescript account of the journey can also be found in
the Case papers, Mss. Eur. E. 335.
101-165 Miscellaneous views of India from
the 1920s onwards, including modes of transport, landcsapes and architectural
subjects. This material is similar to the general views in Photo 390/2. A
certain amount of non-Indian material is also included here.
Album contents:-
- Photo 390/1(104) Grain shop and sacred
cow (with Calcutta city [word illegigle]). Case, Robert Charles 1920s-30s
- Photo 390/1(105) Bamboo scaffolding,
Calcutta. Case, Robert Charles 1920s-30s
Photographers: P. Bose (Calcutta)
Contents: 36 prints 233x286mm to 244x292mm
Gelatine silver prints
Provenance: Presented by the Indian Tea
Association, 1977.
Notes: Complete collection comprises Photo
451/1-4
Subjects: industry - tea industry - tea
plantations - tea processing
Description: Black cloth-covered post-bound
album stamped 'Tea. Balmer Lawrie & Co., Ltd. Calcutta' in gold on front
cover. Photographer's label laid down onto rear fixed endpaper. Album measures
292x385mm and contains prints mounted one to a page with tissue interleaving on
which the captions are printed. A 3pp. letterpress introduction describes the
Assam tea industry, its historical background, the labour force, and the
growing, processing, transportation and auctioning of the crop. The photographs
show all stages of the cultivation of tea from planting to shipping, together
with a number of views of estate labour, company medical facilities,
accommodation, etc. All the tea garden photographs were taken on various
estates of the Jokai (Assam) Tea Company.
Album contents:-
- Photo 451/1(29) Arrival at Calcutta - a
human conveyor belt unloads tea chests into the transit sheds. Bose, P. c. 1950
- Photo 451/1(30) The weight of each chest
is checked carefully as it passes into the Calcutta Sale Tea Warehouse. Bose,
P. c. 1950
- Photo 451/1(31) A sample from each chest
is inspected for taint or damage. The nose of the inspector is the precision
instrument employed. [Calcutta.] Bose, P. c. 1950
- Photo 451/1(32) Samples are drawn for
buyers with a scoop through a hole bored in the chest. [Calcutta]. Bose, P. c.
1950
- Photo 451/1(33) Balmer Lawrie & Co.,
Ltd.'s buyers discuss and value the samples over the lines of cups and pots on
the tea-tasting counter. [Calcutta.] Bose, P. c. 1950
- Photo 451/1(34) Bidding for export teas
in the Calcutta Tea Traders' Association Auction Room. Bose, P. c. 1950
- Photo 451/1(35) Tea sold for consumption
abroad being loaded for shipment at the warehouses near the docks [Calcutta].
Bose, P. c. 1950
- Photo 451/1(36) The start of the long
road to the tea consumer overseas. Looking down the River Hooghly, with the
Calcutta Transit sheds and warehouses in the foreground. Bose, P. c. 1950
Photographers: Bourne & Shepherd and
others unknown.
Contents: 7 prints 223x373mm to 260x377mm
Albumen print and other processes
Provenance: Presented by the Indian Tea
Association, 1977.
Notes: Complete collection comprises Photo
451/1-4
Subjects:
Description: A collection of loose prints
mounted on card, uncaptioned apart from prints 2-4, which are also signed by
the photographer. The collection contains prints from the following locations:
Print 1 View at Poona Racecourse, 1894.
Prints 2-4 Views in Calcutta, 1930s.
Prints 5-7 Views in Assam, 1930s.
Album contents:-
- Photo 451/4(2) Ochterlony Monument
[Calcutta].
- Photo 451/4(3) Bengal Club [Calcutta].
- Photo 451/4(4) Victoria Memorial
[Calcutta].
Photographers: Fritz Kapp, Sett Studio
Contents: 3 prints 193x284mm to 233x298mm
Gelatine silver prints
Provenance: Presented by Mrs Kathleen
Scudamore, Westwood Hall, Surrey Road, Bournemouth
Notes:
Subjects:
Description: Loose prints on card mounts.
Print 1 has letterpress title and identifying key, the remaining two prints are
uncaptioned.
Album contents:-
- Photo 493/2(2) [Military group, probably
XIth Rajputs at Calcutta.]
- Photo 493/2(3) [XIth Rajputs military
band, probably at Calcutta.] Sett Studio (?) 1930s
Photographers: Rev. E.A. Storrs-Fox.
Contents: 94 prints 84x96mm to 75x180mm
Gelatine silver prints
Provenance:
Notes:
Subjects:
Description: Black cloth photograph album,
210x255mm, with prints loosely inserted two to a page with corner mounts. Brief
handwritten captions accompany each print. The album contains snapshot views in
Kashmir (Liddar Valley, Sind Valley, Srinagar), Ummedpur, Calcutta, Darjiling,
Bundi, New Delhi and Sialkot.
Album contents:-
- Photo 496/22(49) Calcutta. Victoria
Memorial. Storrs-Fox, Rev. E.A. Dec 1940
- Photo 496/22(50) Calcutta. Governor's
Procession to Racecourse (Viceroy's Cup day).
Storrs-Fox, Rev. E.A. Dec 1940
- Photo 496/22(51) Calcutta. Governor's
Procession to Racecourse (Viceroy's Cup day). Storrs-Fox, Rev. E.A. Dec 1940
- Photo 496/22(52) Calcutta. Governor's
Procession to Racecourse (Viceroy's Cup day). Storrs-Fox, Rev. E.A. Dec 1940
- Photo 496/22(59) Calcutta. 4 Alipore
Road. 'Nillow' [pet cat]. Storrs-Fox, Rev. E.A. Feb 1941
Photographers: Pandit Studio; Narain
Photographer; Everhappy Studio; National News Photos; Vishnu Narayan; Press
Information Bureau; Amiya Tarafdar; Das Studio, Darjeeling; Dass Studio,
Calcutta; Bombay Photo Stores Ltd and others unknown.
Contents: 42 prints 49x78mm to 161x209mm
Gelatine silver print
Provenance: Presented by G.E.B. Shannon,
1979.
Notes:
Subjects: official functions - British
colonial architecture - high commissions
Description: Collection of loose unmounted
prints, captioned on reverse. Photographs include portraits taken at various
functions attended by G.E.B. Shannon, Deputy High Commissioner for the UK,
views of the High Commission and official residence in Calcutta and some
miscellaneous views in Eastern Bengal.
Album contents:-
- Photo 531/(1) 7/1 Sunny Park, Ballygunge,
Calcutta, from the garden. Official residence, Dec 1952-Feb 1956.
- Photo 531/(2) 7/1 Sunny Park, Ballygunge,
Calcutta, front door on the left.
- Photo 531/(3) View from the flat roof of
7/1 Sunny Park, Ballygunge, Calcutta, where I have my breakfast in the hot
weather.
- Photo 531/(4) 7/1 Sunny Park, Ballygunge,
Calcutta, from the side.
- Photo 531/(5) The garden at 7/1 Sunny
Park, Ballygunge, Calcutta, in fine weather.
- Photo 531/(6) The garden at 7/1 Sunny
Park, Ballygunge, Calcutta, during a monsoon flood.
Photo 531/(16) [Portrait]. G.B. Shannon,
Deputy High Commissioner for the UK, host, in the reception line at 7/1 Sunny
Park, Ballygunge, 18.12.52, [with] Sir Alexander & Lady Clutterbuck &
Miss Anne Clutterbuck.
- Photo 531/(17) [Portrait]. G.B. Shannon,
Deputy High Commissioner, Calcutta, hosting a reception in honour of Mr R.A.
Butler.
- Photo 531/(18) G.B. Shannon, Deputy High
Commissioner for the UK, arriving for dinner at the Bengal United Services
Club, Calcutta, Coronation Day, 2.6.53. [with] Captain Bakewell, President.
- Photo 531/(19) G.B.S[hannon] with the
Queen of Nepal at Firpo's Restaurant, Calcutta (The Consul-General for Nepal
interpreting).
- Photo 531/(21) Dum Dum, 26 Oct 55, 7am. L
to R: Mr Murtaza Raza Chowilhuria[?], Deputy High Commissioner for Pakistan;
Earl of Home, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations [and] G.B. Shannon,
Deputy High Commissioner for the UK in Calcutta.
- Photo 531/(22) G.B.S[hannon] with Marshal
Tito, Assembly House, Calcutta, 31.12.54.
- Photo 531/(23) [Group] At the Deputy High
Commissioner's Reception in honour of the Secretary of State, on a visit to
Calcutta.
- Photo 531/(24) [Portrait of] Sir
Alexander Clutterbuck, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom; G.B. Shannon,
Deputy High Commissioner, Calcutta [and] Viscount Swinton, Secretary of State
for Commonwealth Relations, Dum Dum Airport, Calcutta, 14 Nov 1958.
- Photo 531/(25) Dum Dum Airport, 13.12.52.
G.B. Shannon, Deputy High Commissioner, Calcutta, welcoming Sir Alexander
Clutterbuck, High Commissioner, Delhi and Miss Anne Clutterbuck on the former's
first official visit to Calcutta.
- Photo 531/(26) Reception by G.B. Shannon,
Deputy High Commissioner in Calcutta, in honour of Viscount Swinton, Secretary
of State for Commonwealth Relations.
- Photo 531/(27) G.B. Shannon, Deputy High
Commissioner, Calcutta, entertaining Vice-Admiral Sir William Slayter,
Commander-in-Chief East Indies and Lady Slayter, 1 Harington St, Calcutta,
4.12.52.
- Photo 531/(28) G.B. Shannon, Deputy High
Commissioner, Calcutta, with H.C. Mookerjee, Governor of West Bengal, Mr M.S.
Mehta, then Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan and Vice Admiral C.F.W.
Norris, C-in-C East Indies [at] 1 Harington St, Calcutta, 6.1.55.
- Photo 531/(29) Calcutta, 4.12.52., the
day after arrival. G.B. Shannon, Deputy High Commissioner, with the Governor of
West Bengal and the C-in-C East Indies (Admiral Sir Wiliam Slayter) and Lady
Slayter, at his reception at 1 Harington St, in honour of the C-in-C.
- Photo 531/(33) The direct radio telephone
service between Calcutta and London was inaugurated by Shri Jagjivan Ram, Union
Communication's Minister, on December 30 at Hatikanda, about 31 miles from
Calcutta.
- Photo 531/(34) [Group portrait] L to R:
Countess of Home; Earl of Home, S of S for C[ommonwealth] Relations; George
Middleton, Deputy High Commr, Delhi; G.B. Shannon, Deputy High Commr, Calcutta.
- Photo 531/(35) The High Commissioner for
the United Kingdom, Sir Alexander Clutterbuck, on 12th November at Calcutta, formally
handed over to the National Library of India, medical books presented to the
Library by the British Council.
- Photo 531/(36) G.B. Shannon, Deputy High
Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Calcutta, at the inauguration of the
direct telephone link with London, 30.12.55.
- Photo 531/(38) British High
Commissioner's Office, 1 Harington Street, Calcutta, end of 1955. Front
entrance.
- Photo 531/(39) British High
Commissioner's Office, 1 Harington Street, Calcutta, end of 1955. Garden front.
- Photo 531/(40) Office of the High
Commissioner for the United Kingdom, 1 Harington Street, Calcutta, Dec 52- Feb
56. Front entrance.
- Photo 531/(41) 7/1 Sunny Park,
Ballygunge, Calcutta. Front entrance. Dec 52-Feb 56. Ground Floor, Trade
Commissioner's Flat. First Floor, Deputy High Commissioner's Flat.
- Photo 531/(42) 7/1 Sunny Park,
Ballygunge, Calcutta, from the side. Dec 52-Feb 56.
Photographers: Unknown
Contents: 29 prints 55x80mm to 150x207mm
Gelatine silver prints
Provenance: Presented by Mr J. King, 1979.
Notes:
Subjects:
Description: Miscellanous loose,
uncaptioned prints of indifferent quality and minor interest. The collection
consists mainly of unidentified snapshot
portraits, plus a few architectural and topographical views. Prints 28-29,
pasted onto the inside of the boards of a discarded photograph album, are the
work of a professional photographer and show an unidentified military group and
spectators at a military review.
Album contents:-
- Photo 548/(0)
Miscellaneous snapshots of military life in
India.
Photographers: Electric Photo Studio,
Barisal and others unknown.
Contents: 14 prints 80x107mm to 222x288mm
Silver gelatine prints
Provenance: Presented by P.E.S. Finney,
1980.
Notes:
Subjects: Indian Police - sports - crime
& criminals - prisons
Description: Loose prints, some mounted,
with modern captions. Mainly police groups including sports teams but also
views of the detention jail at Deoli and Calcutta Police Parade. The collection
also includes some xerox copies of photographs and newspaper articles.
Album contents:-
- Photo 565/(1) Deoli (Rajputana) Detention
Jail, 1934. Five separated camps of 100 terrorist Bengali detenus
- Photo 565/(2) Deoli Jail Guards, 1933.
Dussehra Festival Decorations. Left: Subedar Jewar Singh Routh. Right: Subedar
Dhan Singh Negi[?]. Both ex-1/18 Royal Garhwal Rifles & both had the 1914
Mons Star Medal.
- Photo 565/(3) [Football team]. Deoli
Detention Jail, 1933.
- Photo 565/(4) Deoli (Rajputana) Jail
Guards, 1934. Officers & NCO's, all ex 1/18 Royal Garhwal Rifles.
- Photo 565/(5) 2 Subedars & NCO's,
Buxa Duars Detention Camp, Nov 1931. P.E.S.F[inney] handing over to W.J. Cotton
(on right).
- Photo 565/(6) View of east end of Fort at
Buxa Duars, Bengal, across parade ground.
- Photo 565/(7) Bakarganj Dist (Barisal) Police
Hockey XI, 1938. Sitting: Inspr McCubbin; W.J. Cottam, IP; P.E.S. Finney, SP;
unknown.
- Photo 565/(8) [Hockey Team]. Buxa Duars
Detention Camp, 1930 [including] P.E.S. Finney.
- Photo 565/(9) Barrackpore Police FC,
1928. Winners of Finney Challenge Shield. Sitting Lt to Rt: Inspr Bankim Ch.
Chatterjee; E.H. Le Brocq, Addl SP; R.W. Bell, Supt in charge of 24 Parganas
Dist; P.E.S. Finney, Asst SP, Barrackpore; unknown.
- Photo 565/(10) Calcutta Police Rugger XV,
1938. Sitting: unknown; P.E.S. Finney, Dy Commr; Inspr W.E. Goode (Captn); P.
Norton Jones, Dy Comm; Rest unknown.
- Photo 565/(11) Mymensingh District Armed
Police, winners of Provincial Drill Shield, 1936. L to R: Sgt Cooper; P.E.S.
Finney, Addl SP; S.G. Taylor, KPM, Supt; Inspr W. Linford. The men are all
Biharis and a few Sikhs.
- Photo 565/(12) Annual Parade of Calcutta
Police, 1938. European Sergeants marching past.
- Photo 565/(13) Calcutta Police Parade,
1938. Traffic Police marching past. Lord Brabourne, the Govr, taking the
salute.
- Photo 565/(14) Calcutta Police Parade,
1938. L to R: L.H. Colson, CIE, Commissioner; ADC; Lord Brabourne, Governor of
Bengal; Sir Nayimuddin, Home Member, Govt of Bengal; Lady Brabourne.
Photographers: Unknown.
Contents: 12 postcards 88x145mm Half-tone
reproductions
Provenance: Collection of Mr and Mrs
Godfrey, presented by Private Trust Services.
Notes:
Subjects: postcards
Description: Booklet of postcard views of
Calcutta.
Album contents:-
- Photo 569/2(1) Government House,
Calcutta.
- Photo 569/2(2) Victoria Memorial,
Calcutta.
- Photo 569/2(3) Chowringhee Esplanade
crossing, Calcutta.
- Photo 569/2(4) Dhakuria Lakes, Calcutta.
- Photo 569/2(5) Parasnath Temple,
Calcutta.
- Photo 569/2(6) High Court, Calcutta.
- Photo 569/2(7) Race Course, Calcutta.
- Photo 569/2(8) Howrah Station, Calcutta.
- Photo 569/2(9) Government House,
Calcutta.
- Photo 569/2(10) St Paul's Cathedral,
Calcutta.
- Photo 569/2(11) Ochterlony Monument,
Calcutta.
- Photo 569/2(12) Pagoda, Eden Gardens,
Calcutta.
Photographers: A.R. Datt, J. & H. King,
Frederick Bremner, Albert Jeakins, Platé Ltd, Moller & Co, Robert Hotz, Mrs
Starr and others unknown.
Contents: 207 prints 53x82mm to 241x291mm
Various
Provenance: Deposited on permanent loan by
the Hon Julian Hardinge, 1980. Collection withdrawn 1997 and subsequently
re-purchased, Christie's 'Visions of India' sale, 5 October 1999, lot 250.
Notes: See also Mss Eur E 389.
Subjects: official events - viceroys tours
- hunting
Description: Collection of loose, mostly
unmounted, prints many of which are uncaptioned. The photographs, both
professional and amateur, cover a variety of subjects and events including the
Legislative Assembly, polo teams, viceregal camp at Delhi, Delhi architecture,
Viceregal Lodge in Simla, Simla fętes and hunting near Dehra Dun. There are
also some views relating to the 1923 abduction of Miss Ellis, portraits of the
King of Kabul before he was deposed in 1928 and various views of political
demonstrations including Khan Ghaffar Khan.
Album contents:-
- Photo 592/5(206) Looting Biswas & Co
the Gun Shop in Chowringhee Rd, [Calcutta]. 1930s
- Photo 592/5(207) Government House,
Calcutta. 1930s
Photographers: Baljee, G.S. Prem Singh,
Kinsey, Dawn Studio, American Colony (Jerusalem) and others unknown.
Contents: 44 prints 85x145mm to 242x282mm
Albumen, platinum, gelatine silver prints and printing-out papers, etc.
Provenance: Presented by Brigadier F.R.L.
Goadby, 1981.
Notes:
Subjects:
Description: Collection of loose prints,
captined either in the negative or with handwritten titles on the reverse. The
contents of the collection can be broken down as follows:
Prints 1-6 Views of Mussoorie, c.1910.
Prints 7-31 Views in Waziristan, c.1920-23.
Although related to the Waziristan Campaign, these photographs appear to have
been taken a little later than the main events.
Prints 32-7 Miscellaneous Indian views,
1920s-40s.
Prints 38-44 Views of Jerusalem and the
Holy Land, 1890s-1920s.
Album contents:-
- Photo 605/(35) [River scene] In Tripura
State, E. India.
- Photo 605/(36) Major-General and Mrs
F.R.L. Goadby with lunch party group at the Calcutta Club. Jan 1948
Photographers: Arthur Edward Broadbent
Parsons
Contents: 731 prints 51x75mm to 166x288mm
Gelatine silver prints
Provenance: Donated by R.V.E. Hodson.
Notes: Complete collection comprises Photo
667/1-4. See also Mss Eur D. 696.
Subjects:
Description: Full leather bound album
measuring 352x500mm, decorated with blind tooling, and with initials 'A.P.'
stamped in gold in centre of front cover. The album is numbered '4' on the
front cover. The album is enclosed in a card slipcase. Prints are mounted
several to a page, with handwritten captions and identifications in ink beneath
each image.The views in this album are almost entirely amateur work, mainly of
indifferent quality, and the contents can be broken down into the following
broad headings:
Prints 1-117 Snapshot views in Rhodes,
Istanbul, Cyprus, Damascus, Iran, 1932.
Prints 118-282 Snapshot views in
Afghanistan and North-Frontier, with a few views of Delhi, 1932-35.
Prints 283-299 Snapshot views of Elephanta
Island (283-4) and Sri Lanka, 1935.
Prints 300-316 Snapshot views of Malaysia
(mainly Malacca and Penang), 1935.
Prints 317-458 Snapshot views of Sumatra
and Java (general views, archaeological sites), 1935-6.
Prints 459-462 Snapshot views at Penang and
Singapore, 1936.
Prints 463-469 Snapshot views of Egypt,
1936.
Prints 470-478 Snapshot views in the
North-West Frontier Province,1936.
Prints 479-495 Snapshot views of
architecture at Agra, Sikandra, Fatehpur Sikri and Multan, 1936.
Prints 496-530 Snapshot views on the
North-West Frontier, 1937.
Prints 531-546 Snapshot views in England,
Amsterdam, Naples and Basra, 1938.
Prints 547-588 Snapshot views in
Afghanistan, North-West Frontier and the Makran, 1938.
Prints 589-595 Snapshot views in Delhi,
1939.
Prints 596-645 Snapshot views on the
North-West Frontier, 1939. Sukkur, Quetta, Peshawar, Swat. Drosh, Gilgit, etc.
Prints 646-659 Snapshot views at Jaipur,
Amber and Agra, 1939.
Prints 660-677 Snapshot views of Peshawar,
Quetta, Darjiling, Shillong and Calcutta, 1940.
Prints 678-731 Snapshot views of Southern
and Central India: Madurai, Madras, Tiruchchirappalli (Trichinopoly), Cochin,
Shrirangapattana (Seringapatam), Goa, Vijayanagar, Hyderabad, Ahmadabad,
Ellora, 1940.
Album contents:-
- Photo 667/3(660) Prints 660-677: Snapshot
views at Peshawar, Quetta, Darjiling, Shillong and Calcutta.
Photographers: Sir Norman Frederick Frome
Contents: 197 prints 67x45mm to 202x153mm
Gelatine silver prints
Provenance: Donated by ?
Notes: Complete collection comprises Photo
675/1-16
Subjects:
Description: Brown mock-leather bound album
measuring 198x275mm, with prints mounted several to a page, with handwritten
captions in ink beneath each image. Many of the album leaves have become
separated from the binding. An indistinct handwritten title on the cover
appears to rwad 'Tech. 2' and presumably refers to the fact that all the
photographs in this volume relate to the professional and technical aspects of
Frome's career rather than the personal. The album contains views of telephone
exchanges, telegraph offices, communications equipment and scenes of personnel
of the Posts and Telegraph Department at work. Geographically, the span of the
album is broad, with views from Ambala, Lahore, Agra, Assam, Calcutta,
Allahabad, Bombay, Jabalpur, Rawalpindi, Bangalore, Madras, etc.
Album contents:-
- Photo 675/12(1) Prints 1-197: Views of
work of Post and Telegraph Department in India.
Photographers: Sir Norman Frederick Frome
Contents: 202 prints 52x77mm to 90x139mm
Gelatine silver prints
Provenance: Donated by ?
Notes: Complete collection comprises Photo
675/1-16
Subjects:
Description: Beige hardbound album,
paper-covered, measuring 187x233mm, stamped 'Photographs' in gold on front
cover, with prints mounted four to a page in window apertures, with handwritten
captions in ink. The contents of the album can be broken down as follows:
Prints 1-38 English views, with a few of
Marseilles, 1936-7.
Prints 39-63 Voyage from Marseilles-Bombay
on the S.S. Corfu, 1937.
Prints 64-73 Views at Shimla and Calcutta,
1937.
Prints 74-80 Views in Assam, 1937.
Prints 81-87 Views in Delhi, Agra, Shimla
and Calcutta, 1937.
Prints 88-91 Views at Port Canning, 1937.
Prints 92-105 Views at Shillong, 1937.
Prints 106-107 Views at Calcutta, 1937.
Prints 108-114 Views at Delhi and New
Delhi, 1937.
Prints 115-122 Views at Calcutta, 1937.
Prints 123-127 Views at Madras and
Coimbatore, 1937.
Prints 128-139 Views of Calcutta and
environs, including Bandel, 1937-38.
Prints 140-173 Views in Assam, 1938.
Prints 174-185 Views in Lahore, 1938.
Prints 186-192 Views in Delhi, 1938.
Prints 193-202 Miscellaneous views, Bhopal,
Calcutta, etc., 1938.
Album contents:-
- Photo 675/13(64) Prints 64-73: Views at
Shimla and Calcutta.
- Photo 675/13(81) Prints 81-87: Views in
Delhi, Agra, Shimla and Calcutta.
-Photo 675/13(88) Prints 88-91: Views at
Port Canning.
- Photo 675/13(106) Prints 106-107: Views
at Calcutta.
- Photo 675/13(115) Prints 115-122: Views
of Calcutta.
- Photo 675/13(128) Prints 128-139: Views
of Calcutta and environs, including Bandel.
- Photo 675/13(193) Prints 193-202:
Miscellaneous views at Bhopal, Calcutta, etc.
Photographers: Sir Norman Frederick Frome
Contents: 205 prints 52x77mm to 89x141mm
Gelatine silver prints
Provenance: Donated by ?
Notes: Complete collection comprises Photo
675/1-16
Subjects:
Description: Beige hardbound album,
paper-covered, measuring 187x233mm, stamped 'Photographs' in gold on front
cover, with prints mounted four to a page in window apertures, with handwritten
captions in ink. The contents of the album can be broken down as follows:
Prints 1-8 Views at Calcutta, 1938.
Prints 9-15 Views at Shillong and Shimla,
1938.
Print 16 Signal Station at Diamond Harbour,
1938.
Prints 17-58 Miscellaneous views at
Calcutta, Nagpur, Jabalpur, Allahabad, Patna, Delhi, Pune, Sholapur, Guntakal,
Madras and Puri, 1938.
Prints 59-68 Views at Calcutta, 1938.
Prints 69-72 Derailment of the Howrah-Kalka
Mail near Athserai, 29 January 1939.
Prints 73-76 Views at Delhi, 1939.
Prints 77-82 Views at Calcutta, 1939.
Prints 83-87 Views at Rawalpindi, 1939.
Prints 88-91 Views at Lahore, 1939.
Prints 92-94 Views at Amritsar, 1939.
Prints 95-100 Views at Calcutta, 1939.
Prints 101-130 Views in the Darjiling Hills
(Ghum and Darjiling), 1939.
Prints 131-139 Views at Calcutta, Nagpur
and Shimla, 1939.
Prints 140-147 Views at Shillong, 1939.
Prints 148-156 Views at Calcutta and
surrounding districts, 1939.
Prints 157-166 Views in Southern India,
Madras, Tiruchchirappalli, Coimbatore, 1939.
Prints 167-175 Views in the Nilgiri Hills,
1939.
Prints 176-182 Views at Calcutta and Delhi,
1939.
Prints 183-191 Views at Agra, 1940.
Prints 192-197 Views at Lucknow, 1940.
Prints 198-205 Views at Calcutta, Bombay
and (?)Shimla, 1940.
Album contents:-
- Photo 675/14(1) Prints 1-8: Views at
Calcutta. 1938
- Photo 675/14(16) Signal Station at
Diamond Harbour.
- Photo 675/14(17) Prints 17-58:
Miscellaneous views at Calcutta, Nagpur, Jabalpur, Allahabad, Patna, Delhi,
Pune, Sholapur, Guntakal, Madras and Puri.
- Photo 675/14(59) Prints 59-68: Views at
Calcutta. 1938
- Photo 675/14(69) Prints 69-72: Derailment
of the Howra-Kalka Mail near Athersai.
- Photo 675/14(77) Prints 77-82: Views at
Calcutta. 1938
- Photo 675/14(95) Prints 95-100: Views at
Calcutta. 1939
- Photo 675/14(101) Prints 101-130: Views
in the Darjiling Hills]. 1939
- Photo 675/14(131) Prints 131-139: Views
at Calcutta, Nagpur and Shimla. 1939
- Photo 675/14(148) Prints 148-156: Views
of Calcutta and surrounding districts. 1939
- Photo 675/14(176) Prints 176-182: Views
at Calcutta and Delhi. 1939
- Photo 675/14(198) Prints 198-205: Views
at Calcutta, Bombay and (?)Shimla. 1940
Photographers: Sir Norman Frederick Frome
Contents: 201 prints 77x52mm Gelatine
silver prints
Provenance: Donated by ?
Notes: Complete collection comprises Photo
675/1-16
Subjects:
Description: Cream hardbound album,
paper-covered, measuring 188x235mm, stamped 'Photographs' in gold on front
cover, with prints mounted four to a page in window apertures, with handwritten
captions in ink. The contents of the album can be broken down as follows:
Prints 1-9 Miscellaneous views of Kashmir,
Calcutta, Bombay and Rawalpindi, 1940.
Prints 10-125 Views in Kashmir: river
scenes, houseboats, mountain scenery, etc., 1940.
Prints 126-127 Views in Calcutta, 1940.
Prints 128-143 Views in Chota Nagpur
District (Bihar), 1940.
Prints 144-153 Views in Calcutta and
Bombay, 1940.
Prints 154-162 Views in Nagpur and
Jabalpur, 1941.
Prints 163-176 Views in Jaipur and Amber,
1941.
Prints 177-181 Views in Ajmer, 1941.
Prints 182-185 Views in Indore, 1941.
Prints 186-201 Views in Mhow, Mortakka,
Khandwa and Pachmarhi, 1941.
Album contents:-
- Photo 675/15(1) Prints 1-9: Miscellaneous
views of Kashmir, Calcutta, Bombay and Rawalpindi. 1940
- Photo 675/15(126) Prints 126-127: Views
in Calcutta. 1940
- Photo 675/15(144) Prints 144-153: Views
in Calcutta and Bombay. 1940
Photographers:
Contents: 278 prints 86x140mm Various
photographic and non-photographic processes
Provenance: Purchased 1985.
Notes:
Subjects: postcards
Description: Green cloth-covered album,
256x385mm, with 'Post card album' stamped in gold on the front cover and 'Archie
C. Macnabb, Alice Macnabb, 1937-' written on the front fixed endpaper. The
postcards are mainly architectural and topographical subjects from various
locations throughout the world (predominantly South and South-East Asia). There
are several postcard size photographs included.
Prints 1-31 Postcards, mostly colour, from
Bangkok. Print 32 Painting: Hanuman protecting Rama. Prints 33-47 Views in
Malaysia, including Penang and Malacca. Prints 48-51 Views of Singapore. Prints
52-66 Burma views, including Mandalay and Rangoon. Prints 67-70 Calcutta views,
including the Victoria Memorial and Government House. Prints 71-73 Views of
Everest and Kinchinjunga. Prints 74-75 Varanasi ghats. Prints 76-87 Lucknow
views, including Residency. Print 88 Kanpur memorial. Prints 89-106
Miscellaneous non-Indian postcards and some snapshots. Prints 107-118 Gwalior
Fort and temples. Print 119 Unidentified Gupta temple and chaitya hall. Prints
120-123 Sanchi Tope. Print 124 The 'Lions', Vancouver, Canada. Prints 125-134
Ajanta cave paintings. Colour postcards. Prints 135-140 Views of Daulatabad.
Prints 141-161 Ellora views. Prints 162-185 Views in Hyderabad State, including
City architecture and Golconda. Prints 186-199 Bijapur architecture. Prints
200-221 Views throughout Ceylon, including Buddhist sites. Prints 222-237 South
Indian architecture, including sites in Madurai, Ootacamund, Mysore,
Seringapatam, Somnathpur and Belur. Prints 238-242 Colour postcards from
Florida and Scotland. Prints 243-248 Colour reproductions of Indian miniatures
and two views. Prints 249-255 Srinagar views, including the C.M.S. School.
Prints 256-260 Photographs of a Boy Scout Rally, Rawalpindi? Prints 261-278
Views of European towns and fine art.
Album contents:-
- Prints 67-70 Calcutta views, including
the Victoria Memorial and Government House.
Photographers: Unknown
Contents: 2 prints 253x202mm to 356x473mm
Provenance: Donated by Mr and Mrs Charles
Crawford, via European Manuscripts.
Notes:
Subjects:
Description: Two copy prints of group
portraits.
Album contents:-
- Photo 768/(1) High Court Judges of
Calcutta. 1951
- Photo 768/(2) Judges of the High Court at
Calcutta on the 26th January 1950. 26 Jan 1950
Photographers: Bourne & Shepherd,
Zachariah D'Cruz, Stanley Jepson, Johnston & Hoffmann, Shepherd &
Robertson and others (see below for full list).
Contents: 3540 prints Various, mainly
gelatine silver prints
Provenance: Presented by Colin Partridge,
22 Victoria Strret, Alderney, Channel Islands (tel. 0481-82-3270), 1987
Notes:
Subjects:
Description: A collection of 3450 loose
miscellaneous prints of Indian architecture, scenery, people and customs,
collected from a variety of sources. The collection appears to have been
compiled by Dorothy Newsome-Glenn as artist's references for illustrations, and
several of the prints have been squared off in pencil to aid copying. Ms.
Newsome-Glenn (c.1900-1980) apparently worked as an artist/illustrator in India
in the 1920s and 30s, and these photographs were retrieved by Mr Colin Patridge
after they had been discarded after her death. A number also have references
written on the back which indicate that they were published as illustrations in
various Indian magazines. Some of the photographs are the work of Stanley
Jepson, editor of The weekly illustrated of India in the 1930s and it is
probably that either some of these photographs, or illustrations from them were
used in that journal. This has not so far been verified. While a good many of
the photographs are amateur snapshots of no great merit, there is also a large
number of excellent architectural and topographical views by professional
photographers
The full list of identified photographers
in the collection is as follows: Marcus Batley, Bourne & Shepherd, L.
Shugan Chand, Zachariah D'Cruz, Director of Public Information, East Indian
Railway, H.R. Ferger, B.F. Ferreira, Martin Hurlimann, Stanley Jepson, Johnston
& Hoffmann, Klein & Peyerl, Philip Adolphe Klier, S. Mahmood, D.
Manaktala, H.A. Mirza & Sons, D. Deenadayal Prasad, P.N. Rao, Saeed Bros.,
Shepherd & Robertson, Bhoop Singh Dhian Singh, S. Singh, H.E. Tyndale,
Moorthy Vasan.
1-227 Animals (elephants, cheetahs, camels,
donkeys, horses, goats, dogs, vultures, etc) and animal-drawn carts and
carriages.
228-500 Agriculture and farming (coffee,
tea, sugar, cotton,rice, rubber, livestock, etc).
501-594 Miscellaneous architectural views.
595-730 Water transport (miscellaneous
viess of boats of all types).
731-833 Religion (religious festivals,
ceremonies, processions, pilgrimages, etc.).
834-904 Religion (priests, ascetics,
mendicants, worshippers, etc.)
905-1097 Ethnographical photographs
(portraits of tribal proples, types and castes, etc.).
1098-1138 Ascetics (fakirs, holy men,
mendicants).
1139-1154 Forts.
1155-1235 Ghats and riverside scenes.
1236-1245 Fashion, costume and jewellery.
1246-1268 Miscellaneous scenery.
1269-1299 The Taj Mahal.
1300-1496 Religious architecture (temples,
churches and mosques, and some tombs).
1497-
Album contents:-
- Photo 792/(37) Prints 37-39: Street
scenes with cows, Calcutta. c. 1930s
- Photo 792/(145) Prints 145-150: Scenes in
Calcutta Zoo. c. 1930s
- Photo 792/(511) Prints 511-512: Roadside
scenes, Calcutta. c. 1930s
- Photo 792/(595) Prints 595-658: Snapshots
of local craft, mainly on the Hugli at Calcutta. c. 1930s
- Photo 792/(853) Priest of the Kali
Temple, Calcutta. c. 1930s
- Photo 792/(854) Pilgrims and ascetics on
the Maidan, Calcutta. c. 1930s
- Photo 792/(905) Prints 905-912: Snapshots
of beggars on the streets of Calcutta. c. 1930s
- Photo 792/(961) Prints 961-984: Snapshots
of fakirs, pilgrims and beggars in Calcutta and surrounding districts. c. 1930s
- Photo 792/(1098) Prints 1098-1138:
Snapshots of ascetics, fakirs and pilgrims, Calcutta. c. 1930s
- Photo 792/(1300) Prints 1300-1310:
Snapshots of the Kali Temple, Calcutta. c. 1920s-30s
- Photo 792/(2435) Prints 2435-2443:
Snapshots of the Howrah Bridge over the Hugli, Calcutta. c. 1930s
- Photo 792/(2592) Fishing in the Hugli at
Calcutta. c. 1930s
- Photo 792/(3290) Prints 3290-3345:
Snapshots of miscellaneous scenes. c. 1920s-30s
- Photo 792/(3347) Prints 3347-3389:
Snapshots of Calcutta. c. 1920s-30s
- Photo 792/(3390) Prints 3390-3525:
Miscellaneous snapshots, mainly Calcutta scenes. c. 1920s-30s
Photographers: A.C. Dyke and others
unknown.
Contents: 370 prints 46x67mm to 169x250mm
Gelatine silver prints
Provenance: Donated by A.C. Dyke, 1988.
Notes:
Subjects: Indian Air Force - Royal Air
Force
Description: Black cloth-covered post-bound
album, 300x407mm, containing captioned prints inserted in corner mounts.
Corporal A.C. Dyke of the RAF was attached to No 6 Squadron, Indian Air Force
(Fighter Reconnaissance) from 12/5/43 to 21/6/46. A note pasted on to the front
free endpaper reads: 'Early photographs were difficult to obtain because
cameras were scarce and so were films. After 8/5/ 45 films became available
from the then surplus stock of wide aircraft films (of the Photo Reconnaissance
Squadron) which were cut to smaller widths. Spools were in short supply, but if
you had a spare spool you could get a film'. A letter home and copy of Dyke's
itinerary are in an envelope pasted to the rear fixed endpaper and several
xerox copies of maps are also included in the album with places visited
underlined. The photographs are snapshots of amateur quality.
Prints 1-14 South Africa, Mar-Apr 1943.
Views of Durban and the beach at Amanzimtoti. Prints 15- 20 Bombay, May 1943.
Views of buildings and streets. Print 21 Portrait of A.C. Dyke and Cpl. Tucker,
Morli Transit Camp. Prints 22-43 Bombay, May 1943. Architectural views
(including commercial reproductions). Prints 44-46 Trichinopoly, Aug-Sep 1943.
Architecture including a temple gopuram. Print 47 View of Howrah Bridge,
Calcutta. Print 48 RAF (?) group, Kalyan, Oct 1943. Prints 49-53 Calcutta,
30/11/43. Street scenes. Print 54 Fishing boat, Chittagong (poor quality
print). Prints 55-92 Ratnapalong (Chittagong District), Feb-May 1944. Views and
portraits of the Servicing Section of No 6 Squadron, Indian Air Force. All
British men are named, as is the C.O., Squadron Leader Mehar Singh. Photographs
also include some views at Ramu. Prints 93-97 Views and portraits at Cox's
Bazaar, Chittagong, and a copy of a memo: 'Easy Burmese for shot down pilots'.
Prints 98-106 Miscellaneous prints including views of ghats at Varanasi, June
1944. Prints 107-109 Portraits at Risalpur, Jun-Aug 1944. Prints 110-112 The
Golden Temple, Amritsar. Prints 113-154 Kohat, Aug 1944-Nov 1945. Portraits,
views of the RAF station and views of the town and surrounding country. Prints
155-197 Lower Topa and Murree, Aug-Sep 1944. Hill station views including
buildings and bazaars. Prints 198-205 Khyber Pass, 29/10/44. Afghan border
views. Prints 206-213 Views at No 6 Squadron, IAF, 2nd Anniversary Sports Day,
Kohat, 2/12/44. Prints 214-220 Visit by Sir Claude Auchinleck to RAF station,
Kohat, Dec 1944. Prints 221-246 Delhi and New Delhi, Dec 1944. Architectural
views inluding the Jantar Mantar, Red Fort and Humayun's Tomb. Prints 247-274
Agra, Dec 1944. Views of the Taj Mahal, Fort and Itimad-ud-daulah's tomb.
Prints 275-291 Postcard views of Agra, Sikandra and Fatehpur Sikri. Prints
292-303 Fatehpur Sikri, 9/12/44. Snapshot views. Prints 304-306 Akbar's tomb,
Sikandra. Prints 307-311 Views of the Lakshmi Narayana or Birla Temple, New
Delhi, built in 1938. Prints 312-322 Street scenes in Delhi, including beggars
and bazaars, and two views of the Jami Masjid. Prints 323-334 Portraits during
Christmas celebrations at RAF station, Kohat, Dec 1944 (prints accompanied by
menu card). Prints 335-352 Portraits and views at Kohat RAF station, and in the
bazaar. Prints 353--361 Views and portraits at Peshawar, Jan-Feb 1945. Prints
362-370 Views at an IAF funeral for a Sikh officer.
Album contents:-
- Print 47 View of Howrah Bridge, Calcutta.
- Print 48 RAF (?) group, Kalyan, Oct 1943.
- Prints 49-53 Calcutta, 30/11/43. Street
scenes.
Photographers: J. Lowell Groves.
Contents: 11 prints 101x151mm Modern
gelatine silver prints
Provenance: Donated by J. Lowell Groves.
Notes:
Subjects: cemeteries
Description: Loose copy prints. The
original photographs were taken in the 1940s in Calcutta and include Park
Street Cemetery, Government House and the Chitpore Road.
Album contents:-
- Photo 841/(1) [Government House gateway,
Calcutta.] c. 1950
- Photo 841/(2) [View of graves in South
Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta.] c. 1948
- Photo 841/(3) [View of graves in South
Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta.] c. 1948
- Photo 841/(4) [View of graves in South
Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta.] c. 1948
- Photo 841/(5) [View of graves in South
Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta.] c. 1948
- Photo 841/(6) [View of graves in South
Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta.] c. 1948
- Photo 841/(7) [View of graves in South
Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta.] c. 1948
- Photo 841/(8) [View of a Calcutta
mansion, Lower Chitpore Road.] c. 1943-45
- Photo 841/(9) [View of a Calcutta
mansion, Lower Chitpore Road.] c. 1943-45
- Photo 841/(10) [View of a gateway of a
Calcutta mansion, Lower Chitpore Road.] c. 1943-45
- Photo 841/(11) [View of a Calcutta
mansion, Lower Chitpore Road.] c. 1943-45
Photographers: W.A. Whitbread and various
others unknown.
Contents: 119 prints 52x81mm to 70x115mm
Gelatine silver prints
Provenance:
Notes:
Subjects:
Description: Brown mock-leather post-bound
album, 166x238mm, containing amatuer snapshot and commecially produced prints
mounted several to a page with handwritten captions. Pages are interleaved with
tissue and nineteen loose prints are inserted at the back of the album.
The photographs are topographical and
architectural views at the following locations: Hyderabad (Hospital, Char
Minar), Kasauli (Christ Church), Ranchi (Jonah Falls), Suez Canal, Ismailiya,
Howrah (Bridge and Railway Station), Calcutta (Victoria Memorial, St Paul's
Cathedral, Metro Cinema, GPO, Chowringhee), Secunderabad, Bombay, Ranikhet,
Poona, Madras (Moore Market, Mount Road, University, Casino Cinema, YMCA,
Railway Station, Napier Bridge), Himalayas, Kangra Railway, Simla Railway, Agra
(Taj Mahal), Jullunder (Church, post office, cantonment cinema), Amritsar
(Golden Temple), Lahore (Punjab Assembly Hall, Badshahi Masjid, Jahangir's
tomb, Railway Station, Shalimar Gardens), and Jhansi.
Album contents:-
- Calcutta (Victoria Memorial, St Paul's
Cathedral, Metro Cinema, GPO, Chowringhee) 1945-47
Photographers: F.W.W. Hall and others
Contents: 77 prints 73x98mm to 210x156mm
Gelatine silver prints
Provenance: Purchased from Mrs A.M. Rooker,
daughter of F.W.W. Hall, October 1993.
Notes: Collection comprises Photo 894/1-4
Subjects: ethnic groups - Kashmiris
Description: Maroon mock-crocodile
post-bound album (front cover loose), measuring 268x350mm and containing prints
loosely mounted on corner hinges, with captions written in white ink on the
album leaves. The photographs were probably taken by at least two different
photographers. The more amateur work is assumed to be the work of Hall himself,
while the series of more assured studies of Indian types was probably taken by
a professional.
Album contents:-
- Photo 894/4(2) Bengali beggar. 1920s-30s
- Photo 894/4(3) [Beggar, probably at
Calcutta.] 1920s-30s
Photographers: Clyde Waddell.
Contents: 60 prints 253x224mm Gelatin
silver prints
Provenance: Purchased from Pablo Butcher,
June 1995.
Notes:
Subjects:
Description: Black string-tied album
measuring 337x260mm, with prints loosely inserted in corner slits on pages,
with extended typescript captions beneath each image. The album is prefaced by
a one-page printed introduction by M. Charles Preston of New York City,
'ex-enlisted man, former CBI'er and co- worker with the author on Phoenix
Magazine in Calcutta, India.' This introduction, which includes a half-tone
illustration of the photographer with a snake charmer, describes Waddell's
career as a war photographer in Asia and the genesis of this album. According
to this account, Waddell was chief photographer for the Houston Press before
entering the US Army and coming to the India- Burma Theatre in November 1943,
where he was attached to the Public Relations Staff of Southeast Asia Command
'with the express purpose of acting as personal press photographer for Supreme
Commander Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten.' He accompanied Mountbatten
throughout Southeast Asia until February 1945, when he was assigned as news
photographer to Phoenix Magazine, 'a 24-page picture weekly sponsored by the
combined U.S.-British command'. On leave in Calcutta after the liberation of
Singapore, 'He took these pictures at the behest of many friends who had been
constantly asking him for photos of Calcutta scenes. By the time he completed
this project, which brought him into some of the remotest out-of-bounds areas
(and even on top of Calcutta's Howrah Bridge), he was flooded with requests
from Americans and British for copies of his photographs. That is how this book
was born. Requests became so numerous and response to the effort so
enthusiastic that Waddell felt compelled to make the album more generally
available through fellow 'GI' agents. It is hope you will enjoy your album as
much as I enjoyed the association with Clyde during its production. As a
documentary of Calcutta, it's tops.'
Album contents:-
- Photo 934/(1) [Chowringhee Road,
Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(2) [View of the River Hugli
from the Howrah Bridge, looking north, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(3) [Aerial view of Calcutta
from the Howrah Bridge, looking south.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(4) [Hindusthan Building,
Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(5) [Corner of Harrison Street
and Strand Road, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(6) [View looking south along
Chowringhee Road, with the Dhurrumtollah Mosque in the foregound, Calcutta.] c.
1946
- Photo 934/(7) [Karnani Estates, U.S. Army
officers apartment hotel, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(8)[The American Red Cross
Burra Club, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(9)[Old Court House Street,
Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(10) [Old Court House Street,
Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(11) [Sikh taxi driver and
American G.I.s, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(12) [Tram, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(13) [Street performer,
Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(14) [Snake charmer, Calcutta.]
c. 1946
- Photo 934/(15) [Snake charmer, Calcutta.]
c. 1946
- Photo 934/(16) [Street scene with
American G.I.s, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(17) [Professor Sher Mohamed,
Theatrical performer, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(18) [Street scene, Calcutta.]
c. 1946
- Photo 934/(19) [Shitalanatha Jain Temple,
Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(20) [Kalighat Temple,
Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(21) [Hindu woman praying at
linga shrine, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(22) [Brahmins worshipping in
the Kalighat Temple, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(23) [Bathing ghat near the
Kalighat Temple, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(24) [Nimtollah Burning Ghat,
Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(25) [Nakodha Mosque,
Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(26) [Indian women in the
grounds of the Shitalanatha Jain Temple, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(27) [Portraits of two Indian
actresses, Binota Bose and Mrs Rekha Mullick, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(28) [Woman and child in the
street, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(29) [Marble Palace, Calcutta.]
c. 1946
- Photo 934/(30) [Queueing to buy kerosene,
Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(31) [Woman dying in the
street, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(32) [March during the Calcutta
Tramway Workers' Union strike, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(33) [Howrah Bridge, Calcutta.]
c. 1946
- Photo 934/(34) [Street scene outside the
Calcutta Stock Exchange.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(35) [View on the Hugli,
Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(36) [Loading ships at the Port
of Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(37) [Howrah Railway Station,
Calcutta (Haora).] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(38) [Interior of Howrah
Railway Station, Calcutta (Haora).] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(39) [Indians waiting for a
train at Howrah Railway Station, Calcutta (Haora).] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(40) [Roadside shop, probably
near Howrah Railway Station, Calcutta (Haora).] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(41) [The New Market (Sir
Stuart Hogg Market), Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(42) [American G.I.s buying
souvenirs, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(43) [American G.I.s buying souvenirs,
New Market, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(44) [Street scene with
shoeshine boys outside the New American Kitchen,Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(45) [Street traders and
American G.I.s, Chowringhee Road, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(46) [Street traders and
American G.I.s, Chowringhee Road, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(47) [American G.I.s buying
souvenirs, Chowringhee Road, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(48) [American G.I.s at a
bookstall, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(49) [Street scene at night,
with hack gharries, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(50) [Street scene with
shoemakers, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(51) [Street people asleep,
Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(52) [Chinese opium den,
Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(53) [American G.I. and
prostitutes, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(54) [Eating breakfast on the
pavement, Park Street, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(55) [Fruit vendor, Calcutta.]
c. 1946
- Photo 934/(56) [Drying cakes of cow dung
for fuel, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(57) [Paan seller, Calcutta.]
c. 1946
- Photo 934/(58) [Street barbers,
Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(59) [Cocoanut market,
Cornwallis Street, Calcutta.] c. 1946
- Photo 934/(60) [Washermen at work,
Calcutta.] c. 1946
Photographers: Donald Samuel Foster and
others.
Contents: 188 prints Gelatin silver prints
Provenance: Presented by Donald Samuel
Foster.
Notes:
Subjects:
Description: Cloth-bound album measuring
358x265mm, containing 188 prints mounted on photo corners, pages with tissue
interleaving and captions written in white ink. The album is a continuation of
Mss Eur C380/3 and covers Foster's time in the Middle East, India, England
(home leave) and Sumatra, from 1944-47.
Album contents:-
- Mss Eur C380/5() Foster Collection:
Photograph Album of Donald Samuel Foster in the Middle East and Indonesia
1944-47.
Photographers: Unknown
Contents: 36 prints 135x85mm Gelatin silver
prints
Provenance: Presented by Veronica Downing
(née Westmacott), 20 Manor Road, Dorridge, Solihull, who retains copyright.
Notes: accompanying the memoir 'We Were
Survivors' by Veronica Westmacott
Subjects:
Description: Collection of 36 modern prints
made from original negatives, accompanying the typescript account of the
author's life in India as the daughter of a Calcutta barrister and wife of an
Assam tea planter. Veronica Westmacott (b. 1914) was the daughter of Richard
and Vera Westmacott and came out to India at the age of ten to live with her
parents. After being educated in England, she returned to India as the wife of
a tea planter in Assam, where she remained until the end of the war, until
forced to leave India owing to a severe bout of malaria in 1945. The
photographs show scenes of European domestic and social life in Calcutta, a
series of views of pig-sticking, river scenes in Bengal, general manager's
bungalow at Shikarpore, tea plantation views (including the manager's bungalow
at Amjupi), the first car in Assam.
Album contents:-
- Mss Eur C394/() Photographs accompanying
the memoir 'We Were Survivors' by Veronica Westmacott. 1920s-40s
Photographers: Alan William Flack and
others
Contents: 102 prints 40x54mm to 206x155mm
Gelatin silver prints
Provenance: Collection presented by Mrs
J.E. Flack.
Notes:
Subjects:
Description: Limp leather covered
photograph album measuring 258x172mm, containing 102 captioned snapshots,
generally of good quality, dated 1937-40, and illustrating the professional and
social life of Alan William Flack (1913-1988), Indian Civil Service, Bihar
1937-47. The album contains some good representative scenes of an ICS officer
on tour.
Subjects and places covered in the album
include: portraits of colleagues; group of Flack and other new ICS members
photographed in London before setting out to drive to Calcutta in 1937 to take
up their appointments (see Mss Eur D1060/8); houseboat on the Jhelum; staff
quarters at Ranchi; Flack with Babu A.N. Sinha, Finance Minister for Bihar
1939; Baghichampa shooting camp, Christmas 1937 and associated hunting scenes;
bungalow at Kishunganj; views of 1940 tour by car from Kishunganj to
Bahadurganj and the Nepal border; scenes of rural life in Bihar; views of
Kalimpong, the Tista Valley and Darjeeling; tazia being carried through a
bazaar in Calcutta during the Muharrum Festival; officers of the Bihar Light
Horse on horseback.
Album contents:-
- Mss Eur D1060/23() Photograph album
illustrating the professional and social life of Alan William Flack, Indian
Civil Service. 1937-40
Photographers: Hubert Cecil Gotts
Contents: 286 prints Gelatin silver prints
Provenance: Presented by Hubert Cecil Gotts
Notes:
Subjects:
Description: Collection of 6 snapshot
albums containing a total of 286 prints, illustrating the professional and
social life of Hubert Cecil Gotts (b.1901), as an employee in India of Cox
& Co., Bankers from 1921- 54. The material can be broken down as follows:
1. Photograph album measuring 213x161mm,
lacking front cover, containing 59 small captioned snapshots, dated 1921-23,
mostly somewhat faded and of indifferent quality. Subjects include views of
Bombay, shipboard scenes on journey to India, portraits of friends and
colleagues, groups at Juhu Sands and Mahr Fort.
2. Red mock-leather photograph album
measuring 213x162mm, boards loose and spine broken, containing 58 snapshots, dated
1921-23. Subjects include: Arrival of the Prince of Wales in Bombay, 17
November 1921; groups at Deolali and Nasik; temples and river scenes at Nasik;
views at Mount Abu; All Saints' Church, Malabar Hill, Bombay; views of Murree;
views of Srinagar; views at Karachi and Quetta, including a view of the Carlton
Hotel, Karachi; travelling by car; snapshot portraits of friends and
colleagues.
3. Brown cloth covered photograph album
(damp stained) measuring 206x152mm, containing 22 prints, dated 1921-27. Subjects
include: View at Khandalla; English views and portraits, 1924; group on board
S.S. 'Margha', 1924; groups in Singapore and Malaya; views in Calcutta; the
Chummery, Minto Park, 1927.
4. Green cloth covered photograph album
(damp stained) measuring 195x205mm, containing 72 captioned prints, inserted in
aperture mounts meauring 62x40mm. Subjects include: Holiday snapshots at
Felixstowe, 1924; the Rawalpindi Club; shipboard scenes on the S.S. 'Margha';
views of Calcutta, including a tennis party at the Chummery, Minto Park; views
of Nagasaki, Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto, Yokohama, Nikko, Tokyo.
5. Beige soft covered photograph album
measuring 205x153mm, containing 42 captioned prints, dated 1926. Subjects
include shipboard scenes, views in England and Belgium, snapshot portraits of
friends.
6. Beige soft covered snapshot album
measuring 207x158mm, containing 33 captioned prints, some dated 1930, inserted
in aperture mounts measuring 60x38mm. Subjects include: snapshots of friends at
Shillong, Calcutta and Howrah; Proclamation Parade, Calcutta, 1 January 1930;
views of the Suez Canal and Port Said, taken from S.S. 'Britannia'; postcard
view of S.S. 'Britannia'.
Album contents:-
- Mss Eur D1062/() Personal photographs of
Hubert Cecil Gotts.
Photographers:
Contents: 158 prints, 3 negatives 60x34mm
to 321x192mm Gelatin silver prints (mainly)
Provenance: Presented by Colonel H.E.M.
Cotton.
Notes:
Subjects:
Description: Collection of 158 loose
prints, three copy negatives, and various half-tone reproductions, newspaper
cuttings, etc. The material was compiled by Sir Harry Evan Auguste Cotton
(1868- 1939) and includes much material intended for use as illustrations in
the historical journal 'Bengal Past and Present'. The great majority are copies
of paintings and aquatints by Thomas and William Daniell, but the following
artists are also represented: Robert Smith, Charles D'Oyly, James Moffat,
William Baillie, George Chinnery, Auguste Schoefft, Richard James Lane, Thomas
Salt, William Hodges, Captain R.H. Elliot. The collection includes material
from a number of public and private collections, and this information is in
most cases recorded on the back of each photograph.
There is also one photograph of the
memorial obelisk to Richmond Thackeray (1783-1815), Bengal Civil Service and
father of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, in North Park Street
Cemetery, Calcutta (see 'Bengal Obituary' (Calcutta, 1848), p. 203).
Album contents:-
- Mss Eur E268/11() Photographs of
paintings of Indian architecture, scenery and people by Thomas and William
Daniell and others.
Photographers:
Contents: 488 prints 52x54mm to 294x207mm
Gelatin silver prints
Provenance: Deposited on permanent loan by
Lady Reid and Mr E.D. Reid; subsequently presented by Brigadier D.W. Reid.
Notes:
Subjects:
Description: Black cloth post-bound album
measuring 375x270mm, in generally sound condition, containing prints mounted
several to the page, captioned and dated in white ink. The collection records
the personal and professional activities of Sir Robert Niel Reid during his
time as Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal 1932-34, Member of the
Executive Council, Bengal 1934-37 and Governor of Assam 1937-42. The album
contains a particularly valuable collection of portraits of ethnic groups at
various gatherings in Assam and the subject matter can be broken down into the
following subject areas:
Oct-Nov 1933. Visit to Jerusalem, including
views of Government House and group including ; Amman, Baalbek, Acre; Nairn
Transport coach in the desert; Damascus; Maude Bridge, Baghdad; Ctesiphon.
Dec 1933. Jaipur; Deoli Detention Camp.
Jun 1934. Groups at Darjiling.
1934 England (Thorpeness).
Mar 1935. Unveiling of (?)Glisson Memorial,
Comilla.
1935. Family snapshots at The Glen,
Darjiling and at Senchal.
Oct 1935. Trekking scenes, Sikkim.
Jan 1936. Wedding of Olga and Ronnie
McInnes.
1935-36. Aerial views of Calcutta (Victoria
Memorial, Howrah Bridge, Racecourse.
Nov 1936. Police group at Sarda.
Dec 1936. Family and social snapshots at 16
Belvedere Road, Calcutta.
Oct 1936. Scenes at Tonglu and Batasi.
Jul 1937. Angamis at Government House,
Shillong.
1937. Armistice Day group, Shillong.
Nov 1937. River steamers on the Surma River
at Sunamganj (S.L. 'Kotwal' and S.L. Lindsay').
Dec 1937. Views of Government House,
Shillong; Christmas camp at Jamduar; elephant kheddah at Jalpaiguri
Jan 1938. River steamer 'Sonamukhi' at
Gauhati; Ethnic groups parading and performing tribal dances at Imphal: Aos,
Semas, Angamis, Konyaks, Nagas, Manipuri polo and wrestling; the Residency,
Imphal; bird shoot at Logtak.
Feb 1938. Surma Valley Light Horse Camp,
Silchar; views and group at Naibawi; visit to Aijal, Lushai Hills, with parade
of the 1st Assam Rifles; garden party for Lushai chiefs at Superintendent's
house, Aijal, including group of 'Miss Hughes and her Lushai choir'; views on
the Dhaleswari River at Sairang.
Mar 1938. Tiger hunting on elephant at
Kaziranga; group of Mikir girls.
1938. Scenes in Gilgit; Cherrapunji Circuit
House.
Jul 1938. Government House, Dacca; views on
board the river steamer 'Mary Anderson'; Dacca Races.
Sep-Oct 1938. Government House, Darjiling;
groups at Senchal; view of Calcutta race course.
Dec 1938. Dening outpost; Abors at
Pasighat; groups at Baiek.
Jan 1939. Visit to Naga Hills: Kangan
outpost, Borjau, Wakching (Konyak girls dancing); Kongnyu camp, bungalow and
bridge; Merankong; Dikhu camp and suspension bridge; Dikhu river at
Yangmungmukh; gathering of Ao tribespeople at Mokochung and spring festival
dance; Ao houses at Ungma.
Feb 1939. Visit to Charduah, groups of Aka
chiefs and Sherchopka dancers.
May 1939. Gangtok: views of Residency,
European group and groups including Abbots of Gangtok and Pamionchi, Maharaja
of Sikkim, Rani Chuni, Rai Bahadur Norbhu Dhondup, etc.
Nov 1939. Jowai Bazaar, views and groups.
Dec 1939. Travelling by elephant at
Runikhata, Aie Valley, Bhutan.
Jan 1940. Garo Hills: Garo dancers and
drummers at Tuva; groups at Bagmara; Sal Forest near Rongrenaggiri
Mar 1940. Family snapshots at Shillong.
May 1940. Angamis, Konyaks and Sangtams at
Kohima.
Aug 1940. Boat races at Ajmiriganj, Sylhet;
tomb of George Inglis at Chhatak.
Oct 1940. Views in the Shillong district.
Mar 1941. Opening of the Government House
Nursery School, Shillong.
Album contents:-
- 1935-36. Aerial views of Calcutta
(Victoria Memorial, Howrah Bridge, Racecourse.
- Dec 1936. Family and social snapshots at
16 Belvedere Road, Calcutta.
Photographers:
Contents: 151 prints 80x52mm to 280x195mm
Gelatin silver prints
Provenance: Deposited on permanent loan by
Lady Reid and Mr E.D. Reid; subsequently presented by Brigadier D.W. Reid.
Notes:
Subjects:
Description: Black imitation leather
post-bound album measuring 370x275mm, containing 151 prints, with handwritten
and typescript captions. The album records Sir Robert Niel Reid's professional,
social and family life as Acting Governor of Bengal and as Governor of Assam.
Jun 1938. Arrival of H.E. Sir Robert Reid
at Calcutta, to take up post of Acting Governor of Bengal (June-October 1938).
Jul 1938. Dacca Races.
1938. Exterior and interior views of
Government House, Calcutta.
Oct 1938. Group at Darjiling.
Feb 1939. Funeral procession of Lord
Brabourne.
Apr 1939. Unveiling Ceremony of King George
V Memorial, Calcutta.
Apr 1939. Opening Ceremony of the Maharani
Girls School, Darjiling.
Jun 1939. Opening of the Brabourne Park,
Darjiling; King's Birthday Parade, Darjiling; house party, Darjiling.
Oct-Nov 1940. Visit to the Mikir Hills,
Assam: camp scenes (Lanbriknadi, Mohengdijua, Arlengbati); views in Sundar
Singh Terang's village, portraits of hill tribes; Mikir dancers at Dolamara.
Dec 1940. Visit to the Lushai Hills: group
at Lungleh; Lushai dances at Lungleh; Sir Robert Reid with 15lb mahseer caught
at Karnafuli; War Fund stall at Demagiri; memorial to Lieutenant Colonel Thomas
Herbert Lewin (1839-1916) at Demagiri; views in Thenzawl village; views on
Hmuifang; Chief Khawvelthanga Sailo standing beside King George V Silver
Jubilee memorial stone; view from Subalong.
Feb 1941. Visit to Sadiya Frontier Tract:
Namgoi camp; Machum camp; boats on the Noa Dihing; house of Chowsa Hkampti,
headman on Mi-in; elephants shifting timber at Namsoi timber camp; Mishmis at
M'pen.
Aug 1941. Family snapshots taken at the
Peak cottage (Shillong?).
Sep 1941. View of Khonoma.
Oct 1941. Views and portraits at Kongan:
Angamis; bungalow and bridge; G.R. Pawsey. Groups and views at Nazira and
Dooria.
Dec 1941. Abor Hills: views on the Siang
River; durbar at Rotung; Kebang villagers at Yembung; Komli bridge over the
Siang between Babuk and Sissin; views of Pangin fort and gathering of Minyong
gams; Minyong and Karko gams at Yembung.
Jan-Feb 1942. Pnar dancers at Shangpung;
Pnar women near Jowai; Sir Robert and Lady Reid on horseback at Puriang.
Feb 1942. Kalaktang jongpens at Udalguri;
Dufflas near Charduar; European group at Namirimukh Camp.
Album contents:-
- Jun 1938. Arrival of H.E. Sir Robert Reid
at Calcutta, to take up post of Acting Governor of Bengal (June-October 1938).
- 1938. Exterior and interior views of
Government House, Calcutta.
- Apr 1939. Unveiling Ceremony of King
George V Memorial, Calcutta.
Photographers: Hughes (London), Harrods
(London), John Thomson, and unknown photographers
Contents: 14 prints 83x60mm to 98x148mm
Various
Provenance: Collection presented by Mrs
J.G. Thomas.
Notes:
Subjects:
Description: Collection of 14 loose prints,
the majority mounted on card. The collection comprises portraits of the family
of Mrs Muriel Brown (1874-1943), daughter of Sir Adelbert Talbot, Indian
Political Service, and wife of Percy Brown (1872-1955), Indian Educational
Service 1899-1927, Secretary and Curator of the Victoria Memorial Hall,
Calcutta 1927-47.
The photographs include: a
head-and-shoulders portrait of Percy Brown, five prints (two different shots,
with three duplicates) of Percy Brown at work on a piece of sculpture,
portraits of Muriel Brown, portraits of their daughter Barbara Brown.
Album contents:-
- Mss Eur E354/123() Family portraits of
Muriel Brown. 1893-1940s
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Radio broadcast by CBS. Dramatization of Andre
Kostelanetz trip to Calcutta during Christmas season in 1944.
Broadcast on CBS: 12/18/1945 10:45 p.m.
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