Correspondence and papers sent to Henry Dundas on the Madras Government, Tanjore and Arcot debts and dynastic disputes in the royal house, 1786-1801 : Manuscript 1786-1801.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Library of Scotland, owner.

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Series:

India, Raj & Empire.

India, Raj & Empire

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811.

Dundas, Henry.

East India Company.

India--Politics and government--1765-1947--Sources.

India.

India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Production:

[Place of production not identified : producer not identified, 1786-1801]

Summary:

Correspondence and papers, 1786-1801, sent by William Ross, a former Madras civil servant, Sir George Ramsay, Bart., of Bamff, and Lieutenant (later Major-General) William Blackburne, to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.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. The letters and papers from Ross, Sir George Ramsay, and Blackburne, were arranged separately by a clerk, and bound into a single volume; within the three groups the order is largely chronological. An original letter, with translation, of the Raja of Tanjore to Dundas, is included in the Blackburne correspondence.

Notes:

Bought, Sotheby's, 14 November, 1955, lot 1085. [Originally sold in the Melville sale at Sotheby's, 23 February, 1927, lot 711.]

AMDigital Reference: NLS MS.9369.

Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2008. Digitized from a copy held by the National Library of Scotland.

Description based on online resource (viewed August 16, 2023).

OCLC:

1394995017

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