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India papers,

Papers, 1727-1772, deriving from Clive's service in India, primarily official letters, mainly from Clive, 1752-1774, financial records, 1752-1774, and working papers connected with his official duties in the employ of the East India Company, 1727-1772, and especially as governor of Bengal, 1758-1760, 1764-1767.

Bengal (India). Governor (1758-1760 : Clive)

India official correspondence,

Letter books and bundles of loose letters containing official and some private correspondence mainly from, but also, to Clive, relating to his life in India and England, 1752-1759,1765-1774. For the most part there is no clear division between either the public and private or the Indian and European aspects of the correspondence. Owing to the predominance of the public correspondence, it is Clive's service in the East India Company and, in the wider context, the history of British rule in India, rather than his domestic and private concerns, that provide the main subject matter. The group also contains indexes and registers of corespondence, and letters written in Persian, 1752-1773, almost all addressed to Clive, relating mainly to military and financial affairs in India and to relationship with and between native Indian rulers.

Letter book: letters to Europe and within India,

Enclosed are two letters (one of 14 Sept. 1759 from Clive at Calcutta to G. Pocock [i.e. Rear-Admiral George Pocock] regarding the insufficient numbers of troops to meet the military needs of Bengal) and an index in a modern hand on note paper headed 'All Souls College, Oxford. November 10. 1914'. -- Endorsed: 'No 10'

Letter book: letters to Europe and within India,

Enclosed is a loose duplicate letter, 25 December 1757, from Clive to John Payne, chairman of the Board of Directore of the East India Company, concerning the former's acceptance of a present from the Nawab.

'Country letter books',

Letters sent mainly by Clive within India (but including some from H. S. [Henry Strachey, his secretary] during his third and final period there including his second governorship of Bengal, 1765-1767. The wide range of subject matter provides information about the country's internal politics, the civil and military aspects of Clive's duties as governor and various other matters including Clive's own private concerns (e.g. his interest in diamonds), the personal fortunes of company servants, and the Batta mutiny and the ensuing court martials, April-August, 1766, including the arrest, trial and court martial of the mutiny's instigator, Sir Robert Fletcher.

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