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Indian Historical Records Commission. Proceedings of Meetings. Fifth Meeting Held at Calcutta. January 1923

1923

Keeper of the Records of the Government of India— Notes on the Early History of Manipur. 119 Proceedings of the Members' Meeting. 128 Appendix A— Report of the Sub-Committee of the Indian Historical Records Commission. 133 Appendix B-- Conspectus of the action taken on the resolutions of the Indian Historical Records Comission passed at their Fourth Meeting. [...] I do not think that anyone will doubt the wisdom of the authorities in finally deciding in 1891 to establish a General Record Office for the custody and preservation of the old records of all the deparments of the -Government of India and I understand that during the shirt period the Imperial Record Office has been in existence much has been accomplished in the direction of classifying arra [...] Besides the materials in the Record Department of the Government of India and of the Government of Bengal we have the Asiatic Society the Indian Museum the High Court where Mr Edgley the Registrar and Mr Badrudclin Monad his assistant arc hard at work cataloguing and last but not least the Victoria Memorial Hall so that Calcutta has sufficiently established a claim to be the paradise of the [...] The fortified settlements of the Europeans on the Madras coast also grew in populitimi and wealth as they afforded the only safe refuge to rich Indians during the long and desolating war between the Mughals and the Marathas for the possession of the Karnatak or what is popularly known as the siege of Jinji (1690-1698). [...] A study of these State-papers of the Mughal Government side by side with the English factory records of Surat and Madras during the last decade of the seventeenth century establishes the general correctness of the latter but supplies many additional details and illustrations of the history of the Surat factory as already known to us.
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169
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India
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sarf.100196
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