Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume VI

Name: Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume VI
ISBN: 9781315096131

doi:10.4324/9781315096131

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ABSTRACT

Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion. This collection is of interest among academic communities exploring British and Indian history. It is useful for literary, cultural and urban historians working in this area.

A. D. 1793. Regulation XXXIII, 1793. A Regulation for Re-enacting with Modifications, the Rules passed on the 11th February, and 21st October 1791, for Repairing the Embankments Kept in Repair at the Public Expence, and for Encouraging the Digging of Tanks or Reservoirs, and Watercourses, and Making Embankments. British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections, shelfmark V/27/120/57A.

chapter 2|10 pages

Improvement of Calcutta

chapter 3|42 pages

John Shoolbred, ‘Report on the State and Progress of Vaccine Inoculation in Bengal, During the Year 1804’ in Report on the Progress of Vaccine Inoculation in Bengal, from … its Introduction in November, 1802, to the end of … 1803, with an Appendix (Calcutta, 1805), pp. 1–25. British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections, shelfmark T 35542(b).

chapter 4|25 pages

Major Colvin, ‘On the Restoration of the Ancient Canals in the Delhi Territory’, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 2.15 (March 1833), pp. 104–27. British Library, shelfmark AC.8826.

chapter 6|15 pages

James Ranald Martin, Notes on the Medical Topography of Calcutta (Calcutta, 1837), pp. 17–29. British Library, shelfmark 1167.i.20.

chapter 7|18 pages

H. H. Goodeve, ‘A Sketch of the Progress of European Medicine in the East’, Quarterly Journal of the Calcutta Medical and Physical Society, 1 (1837), pp. 142–56. British Library, shelfmark ST 520.

chapter 8|4 pages

Letter from Henry Wood to J. C. Melvill, 23 July 1842, in Appendix I to Second Report of Committee upon the Fever Hospital and Municipal Improvements: Containing Correspondence Respecting the Warping and Draining of the Salt Water Lake and the Unhealthiness of the Environs of Calcutta (Calcutta, Bishop’s College Press, 1848), pp. 50–2. British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections, shelfmark W 6883(b).

chapter 9|22 pages

‘Special Reports of Superintending Surgeons on the Subject of Vaccination, Called for by Medical Board’s Circular of 14th October, 1841’ in Duncan Stewart, Report on Small-Pox in Calcutta, 1833–34, 1837–38, 1843–44, and Vaccination in Bengal, from 1827 to 1844 (Calcutta, 1844), Appendix, pp. i–xx. British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections, shelfmark V 8749.

chapter 10|14 pages

W. E. Morton, ‘On Rajbuhas’, Memoranda on Irrigation by Rajbuhas (Roorkee, C. E. College Press, 1853), pp. 1–12. British Library, shelfmark T 10186(b).

chapter 11|24 pages

‘Analysis of the Progress Reports of the Public Works Department, for 1854–55’, Selections from the Records of the Government of India, 13 (1872), pp. 1–25. University of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Indian Institute, shelfmark IB. Ind. R 1.

chapter 12|18 pages

‘Messrs. Rendel’s Report on the Drainage of Calcutta’ in The Drainage of Calcutta (Calcutta, 1859), pp. 1–16. British Library, shelfmark 8776.b.53.

chapter 13|26 pages

Florence Nightingale, Observations on the Evidence Contained in the Stational Reports Submitted to her by the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India (London, Edward Stanford, 1863), pp. 1–25. British Library, shelfmark 7686.b.41.

chapter 14|34 pages

‘Notes by Dr. J. F. Wise, Civil Surgeon of Dacca, on the Sanitary State of that Station’ in Sanitary Commissioner of Bengal, First AnnualReportfor 1868 (Calcutta, Government Press, 1869), pp. 97–129. British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections, shelfmark V/24/3803.

chapter 15|15 pages

‘Sketch of Sanitary Progress in the Bengal Presidency Previous to 1864’ in Memorandum on Measures Adopted for Sanitary Improvements in India up to the end of 1867; Together with Abstracts of the Sanitary Reports hitherto forwarded from Bengal, Madras, and Bombay (London, 1868), pp. 18–31. British Library, shelfmark B.S. 21/50.

chapter 16|17 pages

‘The Operation of the Laisser-Faire Principle in Times of Scarcity’, Calcutta Review, 46.91 (1868), pp. 102–17. British Library, shelfmark PP.3800.B.

chapter 17|32 pages

‘Bengal’ in Papers Relating to Railway Communication in India, 3 (1868), pp. 195–225. British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections, shelfmark V/27/722/4.

chapter 18|14 pages

Raja Degember Mitter, The Epidemic Fever in Bengal. Reprinted from the Hindoo Patriot, 1872–73 (Calcutta, Hindoo Patriot Press, 1873), pp. 51–62. British Library, shelfmark 7306. de.19.(8.).

chapter 19|16 pages

‘Correspondence Regarding the Proposal for Forming, by a System of Local Taxation, the Funds Required for Relief Purposes on Occasions of Famine’, Selections from the Records of the Government of India, 88 (1872), pp. 1–5, 124–32. Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Indian Institute, shelfmark IB. Ind. R 1.

chapter 20|29 pages

Correspondence Relating to the Famine in Bengal and Behar, 1873–74, pp. 19–23, 31–6, 48–61, 72–6. British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections, shelfmark V/27/830/33.

chapter 21|44 pages

F. C. Danvers, Report on Irrigation Works in India for the Year 1875–76 (1876), pp. 17–60. British Library, Oriental and India Offi ce Collections, shelfmark C/141 ff. 33–63.

chapter 22|14 pages

‘Railway Policy, 1880–84’ in Note on the Administration of the Public Works Department of the Government of India during the Viceroyalty of … the Marquis of Ripon (Calcutta, 1884), pp. 53–65. British Library, shelfmark B.P.7/13.