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This archive consists of lists and correspondence concerned with the disposal of items in the Collections of the Society. The Society has not kept comprehensive records throughout its history. Further information pertaining to Disposals of the Society may be found in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and in the Minute books for the Council and General Meetings. Disposals may continue in the life of the Society. More recent ones are held in the Society's records management system and will be transferred to the archive in due course.

Manuscript described as 'notes on Cudapah' (Kadapa), annotated 'Read July 17/30' and "Ordered not to be printed Nov 13/30. The accompanying label refers this to 'Catalogue of English MSS. II No 5, Cuddapah. Presented by Mrs Skinner.'

The manuscript includes notes in three sections, concerning:

• The self-devotion of a headman of the village of Chitwail
• An account of the "Assaree Shereef" - a building erected in 1735 to contain a hair from the beard of Muhammad
• The behaviour of a fakeer (holy man)

A description of the manuscript can be found in the Society's "Catalogue of English Manuscripts in the R.A.S.", p. 20.