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Copies of official correspondence, with some original reports concerning India., [?Circa 1820]-1824.

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Identifier: MS.13740

Scope and Contents

The reports include:

(i) The cultivation of coffee, 1824 (folio 3);

(ii) The Baroda revenue system, undated, but post 1821 (folio 21);

(iii) Memorandum, 7 August 1820, on the revision of the judicial code of the Bombay presidency, 7 August 1820 (folio 32);

(iv) Regulations, undated, but circa 1820, concerning the duties of a collector, revenue regulations concerning village representatives, and queries concerning land values, with a glossary of land custom terms (folio 38);

(v) Detailed questionnaire replies, 13 April 1819, from Satara, probably of James Grant Duff, to Mountstuart Elphinstone at Poona concerning the civil and criminal jurisprudence, customs, etc., of the Marathas, with similar replies, 10 October 1821, of H D Robertson at Poona to Commissioner William Chaplin (folio 259).

Dates

  • Creation: [?Circa 1820]-1824.

Conditions Governing Access

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Conditions Governing Use

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Extent

455 Leaves ; Folio.

Language of Materials

From the Fonds: Undetermined

Arrangement

455 folios.

Repository Details

Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository

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