Indian Historical Records Commission. Proceedings of Meetings. Sixth Meeting Held at Madras. January 1924

To these the loan from the Imperial Record Department adds the very interesting reconnoitring plans of Madras prepared in the years 1758 and5 1768 and a copy of the treaty transferring the Danish settlements to the English and the letter of the Maharaja of Mysore on his release and restortion of the kingdom of his ancestors. [...] C) A portrait of Henry Strachey may be seen in Benjamin West's picture of " Shah Alam the Great Mogul conveying the Grant of the Dewanny to Lord Another and full-length portrait of Clive by Nathaniel Dance is in the collection of the Earl of Powis the present head of the family at Walcot; and a replica also by Dance was presented in 1834 to the Oriental Club in London by the first Earl who as [...] The grant of the Dewani of Bengal Behar and Orissa was the outcome of the Treaty of Allahabad which was concluded on August 16 1765 between Clive and Carnac on the one hand representing the Nawab Nairn of Bengal and the East India Company and Shuja-ud-daula Nawab Wazir of Oudh on the other hand. [...] The most common and natural limit between this zillah and the Mahratta territory to the west is the Subarnrekha river; but while some of the Mahratta lands lie to the east of the river some of the Copany's lands lie to the west of it. [...] On February 25 1811 he became Resident at the Court of Scindia and on October 31 1815 was appointed in the same capacity tct the Court of the Nawab Vizier at Lucknow resigning the service on October 31 181749) A memento of Richard Strachey's occupancy of the Gwalior Residency is still to be seen in the shape of the tomb of his favourite dog Glancer which 9 In the supplement to the Calcutt