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Subject Terms India -- History -- British occupation, 1765–1947.

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1. Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809 : descriptive of the character, domestic habits, and religious ceremonies, of the Mahrattas : with ten coloured engravings, from drawings by a native artist / by Thomas Duer Broughton, Esq., late Commander of the resident's escort at the Court of Scindia.

Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809 : descriptive of the character, domestic habits, and religious ceremonies, of the Mahrattas : with ten coloured engravings, from drawings by a native artist / by Thomas Duer Broughton, Esq., late Commander of the resident's escort at the Court of Scindia.
Creator:
Broughton, Thomas Duer, 1778–1835
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
[16], 358, [2] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The grand historical picture of the storming of Seringapatam by the British troops and their allies, May 4th, 1799 : painted by Robert Ker Porter / Lee sc.

The grand historical picture of the storming of Seringapatam by the British troops and their allies, May 4th, 1799 : painted by Robert Ker Porter / Lee sc.
Date:
[1800?]
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut and letterpress ; sheet 37 x 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Letters on India : political, commercial, and military : relative to subjects important to the British interests in the East : addressed to a proprietor of East-India stock / by Lieut. Colonel Taylor.

Letters on India : political, commercial, and military : relative to subjects important to the British interests in the East : addressed to a proprietor of East-India stock / by Lieut. Colonel Taylor.
Creator:
Taylor, John, 1808–1887
Date:
1800
Physical Description:
xxiv, 270 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Humorous sketches of the world we live in / by R.W. Lodwick, Esq., Bombay Civil Service.

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Creator:
Lodwick, R. W
Date:
1856
Physical Description:
[4] p., [40] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Sketchbook of Indian scenes and British colonial life.

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Creator:
Johnson, Edward Reginald, b. 1846
Date:
1869-1872
Physical Description:
1 v. (ca. 170 p., with many blanks) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Journal of John Pearson, Advocate General of Bengal, 1824.

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Creator:
Pearson, John, 1771–1841
Date:
1824 March 21-1824 July 29
Physical Description:
3 v.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Military reminiscences : extracted from a journal of nearly forty years' active service in the East Indies / by Colonel James Welsh ...

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Creator:
Welsh, James, 1775–1861
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Narrative sketches of the conquest of the Mysore, effected by the British troops and their allies in the capture of Seringapatam, and the death of Tippoo Sultaun, May 4, 1799 : with notes, descriptive and explanatory / collected from authentic materials.

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Date:
MDCCC [1800]
Physical Description:
134, [2] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Sketch of Mairwara : giving a brief account of the origin and habits of the Mairs, their subjugation by a British force, their civilisation, and conversiopn into an industrious peasantry : with descriptions of various works of irrigation in Mairwara and Ajmeer ... : illustrated with maps, plans, and views / by Lieutenant-Colonel C.J. [i.e. C.G.] Dixon.

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Creator:
Dixon, C. G. (Charles George)
Date:
1850
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 241, [1] p., [29] leaves of plates ([10] folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Narrative of the siege and capture of Bhurtpore : in the province of Agra, Upper Hindoostan, by the forces under ... General ... Lord Combermere ... in the latter end of 1825, and beginning of 1826 / by J.N. Creighton ...

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Creator:
Creighton, J. N. (James Norman), 1786–1838
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
iii-viii, [4], ix-xxiii, [1], 1-14, [2], 15-168 p., 8 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., map, plan ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. India in relation to Great Britain : considerations on its future administration / by Major Thomas Best Jervis, F.R.S.

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Creator:
Jervis, T. B. (Thomas Best), 1796–1857
Date:
MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:
viii, 88 pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Jane L. Jervis, Ph.D. 1978.

12. Contributions to the statistics of Western India / extracted from a Memoir of the Konkun drawn up by Major T.B. Jervis, in 1823-1830.

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Creator:
Jervis, T. B. (Thomas Best), 1796–1857
Date:
[1840?]
Physical Description:
19 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jane L. Jervis, Ph.D. 1978.

13. Sketches at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition / by John Dinsdale.

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Creator:
Dinsdale, John, active 1884–1890
Date:
[1886]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 14 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England : in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818 / by Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzclarence.

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Creator:
Munster, George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence, 1st Earl of, 1794–1842
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[iii]-xxiv, 502 p., [19] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : col ill. maps, plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Mooltan, during and after the siege : being twenty-one drawings, from sketches taken on the spot / by John Dunlop ... and lithographed in tints by Andrew Maclure ; with a descriptive and historical account of the siege.

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Creator:
Dunlop, John, M.D
Date:
1849
Physical Description:
[38] p., [21] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Papa's keepsake : being stories and verses, funny and grave, for Archie the scholar, and Alan the brave : and a rose for a looking glass, wondrous rare, for my own darling Meggy the fair.

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Creator:
Swinton, George, 1780–1854
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
42 pages, [14] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The storming of Seringapatam : the first important engagement in which the Duke of Wellington was engaged in India / painted by Peter Krafft.

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Creator:
Krafft, Johann Peter, 1780–1856
Date:
[1853]
Physical Description:
1 print : engraving ; 43 x 37 cm, folded to 29 x 22 cm., in boards 29 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. A view of the origin and conduct of the war with Tippoo Sultaun : comprising a narrative of the operations of the army under the command of Lieutenant-General George Harris, and of the siege of Seringapatam / by Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Beatson.

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Creator:
Beatson, Alexander, 1759–1833
Date:
1800
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 265, [1], clxxii p., [7] leaves of plates ([5] folded) : ill., port., maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts