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Correspondence and papers sent by William Ross, a former Madras civil servant, Sir George Ramsay, Baronet, of Bamff, and Lieutenant (later Major-General) William Blackburne, to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.
File
Identifier: MS.9369
Scope and Contents
The correspondence, which includes extensive memoranda and minutes, deals in considerable detail with the policies of the East India Company's Madras government towards the Raja of Tanjore, the question of the Tanjore and Arcot debts, and dynastic disputes in the royal house.
An original letter, with translation, of the Raja of Tanjore to Dundas (folios 123-137), is included in the Blackburne correspondence.
Dates:
1786-1801.