Volume containing a wide range of important and revealing memoranda of Alexander Walker, chiefly concerned with Ceylon and with the East India Company's role in India., ?4th quarter of 18th century-?1st quarter of 19th century.
Scope and Contents
The volume seems to have been gathered together by Alexander Walker from his earlier writings and bound together circa 1826. If any single volume reflects Walker's eclectic mind it is this.
It includes a fair copy of an account, written by Lieutenant Tomkins Knox of the Bombay Army, of his visit to Kandy with the mission of Robert Andrews, a Madras civil servant, in 1796 (page 9).
There is also a memoir on the administration of Ceylon written by Hugh Cleghorn, circa 1799, and subsequently edited and introduced by Walker (page 97); see T Nadaraja, "New light on Cleghorn's Minute on Justice and Revenue" in 'Journal of the Ceylon branch of the
Royal Asiatic Society’, New Series, volume x (1966), and R Pieris ‘Administration of justice and of revenue on the island of Ceylon’ in ‘Journal of the Ceylon branch of the Royal Asiatic Society’, New Series, volume iii (1954), pages 125-152.
Dates
- Creation: ?4th quarter of 18th century-?1st quarter of 19th century.
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Extent
363 Leaves ; Folio.
Language of Materials
From the Fonds: Undetermined
Arrangement
iv + 722 + some blank pages.
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