This collection consists of seven leather bound portfolios containing topographical drawings, maps, floor plans, notes and papers that the West brothers had created when working in the Maharashtra region of India in the mid to late 1800's. The main focus of the collection is the Kanheri Caves; a group of over 109 rock cut temples located in what is today the Sanjay Gandhi National Park on the western outskirts of Mumbai. The brothers studied these caves over the course of several decades, returning to the site many times to check and amend measurements, locations, and expand open their interpretation of the site. The remainder of the collection covers several other sites such as: Ajanta, Ellora and Daulatabad.

A folder containing 21 documents relating to the Karli Caves.

A short description of the caves written by Arthur Anderson West on the 22nd December 1861.

Description of the Chaitya Verandah, March 1866. Also contained are tracings of inscriptions copied by E.W. West. Please note that this in page 3-4 of the folder.

A general plan of the Karli caves, scale is 30ft to an inch. This is sheet 5 in the folder.

A plan of Chaitya Cave (unfinished), scale 15 feet to an inch.

Plans of the caves 6 & 7, and 16 & 17 which are found on a higher level. The scale is 30feet to an inch. This is sheet 7 in the folder.

A drawing of a rock cut Láth, left of the court in front of Chaitya Cave. The drawing has been copied from a photograph by Johnson, scale approximately 1/4 of an inch to foot. This is sheet 8 in the folder.

A drawing of a Column in Chaitya Cave, scale 1/2 inch to a foot with a further pencil sketch of a column in the same scale. This is sheet 9 in the folder.

A drawing of a Column in Cave 8, scale 1/2 inch to a foot. This is sheet 10 in the folder.