A bound manuscript for the "Supplemental Glossary of Terms Used in the North Western Provinces". The volume starts with a preface entitled "Supplement to the Printed Glossary" before beginning the glossary. The manuscript has some annotations and corrections. The volume measures 33.5 cm x 21 cm with marbled cover and leather spine much of which has been lost.
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Three bound, handwritten volumes concerning the topography and statistics of the Dehli, Rohilcund, and Saugor and Nerbudda territories.
Bound volume of the topography and statistics of the Delhi territory, largely handwritten with various printed pages inserted, and one printed map. Includes information on the various Pergunnahs (Parganas), or administrative units, within the region.
Bound volume of the topography and statistics of the Rohilcund division, handwritten and containing one printed map. Also contains a letter from P. ('Pilgrim', his pseudonym) Barron, a sugar merchant and supposed founder of Nainital, dated 1842.
Bound, handwritten volume of the topography and statistics of the Saugor and Nerbudda territory (located in present-day Madhya Pradesh). Includes information on the various Pergunnahs (Parganas), or administrative units, within the region.
Administrative tables collected from the different districts concerning castes. Handwritten and compiled in local languages with some English.
These are handwritten manuscripts and notes probably belonging to Henry Miers Elliot mainly concerning languages and administrative details pertaining to India. However there is one file that contains a Legendary History of England.
The majority of this correspondence are letters sent to Elliot to provide details for his Glossary, or other administrative purpose. They are in English, Urdu, Persian and Hindi. One letter is a list of the population figures for English counties according to the 1841 Census.
The printed material consists of James Thomason's settlement report on the district of Azamgarh, from 1837 and a copy of a Hindi lithographed newspaper, the 'Shimla Akhbar', of 15th April 1848.
Five bound volumes of mainly handwritten manuscripts which Henry Miers Elliot collected, copied or wrote in the course of his duties of extracts, reports and correspondence,
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