INDIA DURING THE RAJ: EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS
Diaries and related records held by the European Manuscripts Section
in the Oriental and India Office Collections at the British Library, London
Part 1: Diaries and related records describing life in India, c.1750-1842
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Ms Eur D.5
1712-1713
Isack Pyke, Captain of East Indiaman, The Stringer. Description of Bombay and the Cape of Good Hope, with a log of the homeward journey
Ms Eur D.929
1748
Unknown French Military Officer
Siege and relief of Pondicherry
Ms Eur F.128/81
1756-1757
Brig-Gen John Carnac (1716-1800)
British Army 1739-1757, Madras Army 1758-1779 Expedition to Bengal under Clive
Ms Eur E.1
1758-1759
Sir John Call, 1st Bart, (1732-1801)
Chief Engineer to the East India Company, 1751-1770
Siege of Fort St George by the French
Ms Eur F.110
1762
John Pybus, East India Company Servant, Madras, 1742-1768
Journey on mission to the King of Kandy
Ms Eur F.128/140
1767
Capt George Kinloch (d 1768)
Expedition to Nepal
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Ms Eur E.379/1-3
1769-1775
George Paterson (1734-1817) Secretary to the British Government mission to the Nawab of the Carnatic. Also Admiral Sir Robert Harland (1715-1784) second envoy, 1771-1774
Voyage and travel in Southern India; business of mission; Madras politics; activities of the Nawab
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Ms Eur E.379/4-6
1769-1775
George Paterson (1734-1817) Secretary to the British Government mission to the Nawab of the Carnatic. Also Admiral Sir Robert Harland (1715-1784) second envoy, 1771-1774
Voyage and travel in Southern India; business of mission; Madras politics; activities of the Nawab
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Ms Eur E.379/7-9
1769-1775
George Paterson (1734-1817) Secretary to the British Government mission to the Nawab of the Carnatic. Also Admiral Sir Robert Harland (1715-1784) second envoy, 1771-1774
Voyage and travel in Southern India; business of mission; Madras politics; activities of the Nawab
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Ms Eur E.149
1775-1776
Capt (later Lt Col) Allen Macpherson (1740-1816) Bengal Army, 1764-1791
Persian interpreter on a mission to the Marathas Business of the mission
Ms Eur E.23
1777-1780
Sir Philip Francis (1740-1818), member of the Governor-General’s Council, 1774-1780
Business of Council: description and opinions of Calcutta society and politics
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Ms Eur D.1146/6
1780-1781
Anon
Campaign in the Carnatic
Ms Eur B.392
1780-1784
Col Cromwell Massey (1742-1845), Madras Army
Captivity in Seringapatam as prisoner of Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan
Ms Eur A.94
1781-1784
Lt Richard Runwa Bowyer, Royal Navy Captivity in southern India by the French and Haidar Ali of Mysore
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Ms Eur C.156
1781-1783
Unknown British military officer, possibly Capt (later Major Sir) John Kennaway (1758-1836) 1st Bart, Bengal Army Service in the Second Mysore War
Ms Eur A.172
1784
Frances, Lady Chambers (1758-1839), wife of Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1833), Chief Justice of Bengal 1789-1799
Brief details on social life in Calcutta
Ms Eur B.13
1785
Capt (later Lt General) Charles Reynolds (d1819), surveyor
Journey from Surat to Agra and Delhi
Ms Eur F.127/94
1787-1789
Sophia Elizabeth Prosser (d 1835), wife of Richard Plowden, Bengal Civil Service
Life in Calcutta; trip up the Ganges
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Ms Eur B.102a
1790
Unknown British military officer- Probably Capt (later Sir) Alexander Allan, Bart (d1820), Madras Army, 1780-1804
Service in the Third Mysore War and tour through the Northern Circars, 1795
Ms Eur F.76
1790-1791
Unknown British military officer, possibly Major (later Lt General) Alexander Dirom (d 1830), British Army, 1779 Service in the third Mysore War
Ms Eur C.12
1795
Francis Buchanan or Buchanan-Hamilton (1762-1829), Bengal Medical Service, 1794-1816
Observations during travels through Burma on mission to Ava
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Ms Eur B.161
1797-1798
John Ryley, Bengal Civil Service, 1791-1820
Personal life in Bengal
Ms Eur A.103
1798-1802
Capt John Budgen, British Army
Travels in India as ADC to Sir David Baird and return through Italy
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Ms Eur D.434-39
1801-1806,
Lt-Colonel John Pester (1778-1850),
1812-1823
Bengal Army, 1800-1826
Military campaigns, voyages and marches
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Ms Eur C.626
1803-1809
Capt Henry Anderson (1779-1810), Bengal Army, 1799-1810
Description of campaigns including Monson’s retreat during the Maratha War 1803-1805, a march from Muttrah and Bundelkhand and a campaign in the Doab Sept-Oct 1807
Ms Eur D. 637
1809-1810
Lt James Macmurdo (1785-1820), Bombay Army, 1801-1820
Journey through Gujarat
Ms Eur C.166
1813
George Morris, British Army veterinary surgeon
Light Dragoons Voyage to India
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Ms Eur A.196
1813-1816
Robert Allan, Officer on HMS Salsette
Convoy and patrol duties to India and in the Indian Ocean
Ms Eur B.7
1816-1821
Ensign John Macleod, Bombay engineers
Survey of passes of Western and Northern Ghats during Pindari incursions
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Ms Eur C.418
c1818
Unknown British military officer
Probably relating to operations during the Maratha War
Ms Eur C.537
1818-1820
Mrs M E Doherty
Journal of the voyage to India with her husband Major Joseph Doherty (d1820), British Army 1803-1820 and the 13th Light Dragoons on board the Windsor; life in Bangalore; the death of her husband and the journey home as far as the Cape of Good Hope
Ms Eur B.293
1818-1819
Unknown British military officer
Examination of military fortifications in territory annexed to Bombay
Ms Eur E.271
1821
Unknown traveller
Voyage up the Ganges to Patna
Ms Eur A.189
1821-1833
Lt (later Lt Colonel) Henry Rutherfurd (1802-1874), Bengal Artillery, 1819-1846
Marches across India in the First Burmese War
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Ms Eur A.210
1821-1841
William Parry Okeden (1800-1868), Bengal Civil Service, 1818-1844
Diary comprising a journey from Calcutta to Agra, 1821 and a record of his hunting activities, 1823-1841
Ms Eur A.185
1822-1826
Azubah Clark (d 1826)
Printed extracts. Voyage to India; life in Bengal; religious feelings
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Ms Eur D.888/1
1822-1828
Lucretia (d 1828), wife of Sir Edward West (1782-1828), Chief Justice of Bombay, 1823-1828
Voyages to India; husband’s work; family and social life
Ms Eur A.9
1825
Lt (later Col) William Anderson, (1804-1869), Bengal Artillery, 1819-1855
Siege of Bharatpur
Ms Eur D.786/1
1827-1828
Edward Ward Walter Raleigh (1802-1865), Bengal Medical Service, 1826-1846
Description of journey up country as assistant-surgeon to Lord Amherst the Governor-General
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Ms Eur B.365/1-10
1827, 1837
Hawkins Francis James (1806-1860), Bengal Civil Service, 1827-1855, and his brother Henry James (1817-1866), Bengal Army, 1835-1866
Voyage to India; journey up the Ganges and diary letters
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Ms Eur E.163-64
1828-1841
Charles Masson (1800-1853), traveller
Travels in Northern India, Afghanistan and Persia
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Ms Eur E.165
1828-1841
Charles Masson (1800-1853), traveller
Travels in Northern India, Afghanistan and Persia
Ms Eur B.208
1829-1831
Capt Christopher D’Oyley Aplin (1787-1833), Bengal Army, 1805-1833
Daily life and social activities with the regiment at Cawnpore
Ms Eur C.366/1-3
1829-1830,
William Stephens Dicken (1804-1861), 1857-1858
Bengal Medical Service, 1829-1861
Voyage to India; life in Oudh; Lucknow in the Sepoy Rebellion
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Ms Eur C.29
1830
Lt (later Capt) George Edward Westmacott (1807-1841), Bengal Army, 1825-1841
Travels in Northern India
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Ms Eur B.205/1
1831-1861
Mary Fitzgibbon (1813-1862), wife of Richmond Fitzgibbon (c1805-1871), veterinary surgeon, Madras Army, 1824-1861
Personal life
Ms Eur B.360 A-B
1832
Florentia (1790-1853), wife of Major-General Sir Robert Henry Sale (1782-1845), British Army, 1795-1845
Notebook with entries describing stay in Agra
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Ms Eur C.315
1834
Mrs Mary Ann MacFarlan (née Hogg) (1810-1873), wife of David MacFarlan (1797-1854),
Bengal Civil Service, 1816-1847
Daily life in Calcutta; voyage to Scotland
Ms Eur B.307
1834-1838
Lt (later Captain) Charles Farquhar Trower (1811-1846), Bengal Army, 1828-1834,
3rd Nizam’s Cavalry, 1836-1846
Travels in India
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Ms Eur B.336
1835
John Hallett Batten (1811-1886), Bengal Civil Service, 1828-1866
Tour from Simla to Saharanpur, United Provinces
Ms Eur A.121
1836-1837
Rev George Trevor (1809-1888), East India Company Chaplain, Madras, 1836-1847
Voyage to India and first few months in Madras
Ms Eur D.1157
1837-1838
Charles Theodore Le Bas (1817-1858), Bengal Civil Service, 1836-1858
Journey from Calcutta to Meerut
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Ms Eur D.1157
1837-1838
Charles Theodore Le Bas (1817-1858), Bengal Civil Service, 1836-1858
Journey from Calcutta to Meerut
Ms Eur E.125
1837
Lt (later Major-General Sir) Thomas Townsend Pears (1809-1892), Madras engineers, 1823-1861
Overland journey to India
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Ms Eur C.130
1837-1838
Frances Eden (1801-1849), sister of George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, Governor-General
of India, 1836-1842
Journey up country from Calcutta to Simla
Ms Eur B.330
1838-1839
Capt (later Lt General Sir) James Outram 1st Bart, 1803-1863), Bombay Army, 1819-1860 on the staff of Sir John Keane, commander of the Bombay Army, 1838-1839
March of the army through Sind to Ghazni and Kabul in the first Afghan War
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Ms Eur B.265/1
1838-1850
Emma Walter, wife of Major Edward Walter, Bombay Army, 1821-1851
Voyage to India; descriptions of travel therein
Ms Eur B.275
1841-1842
Florentia (1790-1853), wife of Major-General Sir Robert Henry Sale (1782-1845), British Army, 1795-1845
Experiences during the First Afghan War including the retreat from Kabul
Ms Eur C.703
1841-1842
Capt (later Lt Col) William Anderson (1803-1858), Bengal Army, 1823-1858
Diary recording events leading up to the retreat of the British forces at Kabul, 1842 and his experiences as a captive of Muhammad Akbar Khan, with his wife and small daughter. Included also are a memorial to Lord Canning detailing his career and an account of the ordeal by his wife Amy Anderson
Ms Eur B.29
1842
Capt Arthur Conolly (1807-1842), Bengal Army, 1823-1842 and Envoy to Khiva, 1840-1842
Imprisonment at Bukhara before execution
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