India (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 7965 Collections and/or Records:
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Massacre Ghaut, Cawnpore, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/31
Scope and Contents
276 x 208 mm. View of the Sati Chaura Ghat, the landing place on the Ganges north of Wheeler's Entrenchment where, on 27 June 1857, the garrison was ambushed after having been promised safe passage out of Cawnpore. Above the ghat is an hexagonal temple dedicated to Shiva.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mausoleum of Akbar at Sikandarah
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 4/52
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints measuring approximately 210 x 160 mm mounted in an album bound in padded red leather and inscribed on the front cover VM [Victoria Mary] surmounted by a coronet. The end papers have a label 'Bourne and Shepherd : Artists, Photographers and Publishers. Calcutta, Simla and Bombay'. This album deals with architectural views (with many close-up details) of buildings in Udaipur, Jaipur, Ajmir, Chitor, Mt Abu, Lahore, Amritsar, Delhi, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mausoleum of Emperor Humayon, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/9
Scope and Contents
236x184mm. The building is in the form of a large central dome with projecting apartments at each of the four corners, the whole surrounded by an outer colonnade (between the main building and this outer colonnade is a formal garden not visible in this print). The dome itself is faced with plain white marble while the rest of the building is of red sandstone with decorative inlays of white marble on the piers between the numerous pointed arches. Humayun succeeded to the Mughal throne in...
Dates:
1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mausoleum of Hoshangabad at Mandu, Malwa, 1874 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022J/92
Scope and Contents
195 x 130 mm. No. 337.
Dates:
1874 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mausoleum of Humarjun, Delhi, 1908-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/730
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format).
Dates:
1908-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mausoleum of Itmad-ud-Doulah
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/158
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mausoleum of Prince Etmad-Dewlah, Agra, 1860 - 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022U/19
Scope and Contents
293 x 212 mm. Duplicate of Y3022D/25. No. 1232.
Dates:
1860 - 1869
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mausoleum of Prince Etmad Dowlah, 1860 - 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022B/128
Scope and Contents
292 x 233 mm. Duplicate of Y3022D/26.
Dates:
1860 - 1869
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Views of India
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Mausoleum of Rabind Dorani (wife of Aurungzebe), 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022Y/18
Scope and Contents
Adjoining the Agrihorticultural School.
Dates:
1908
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mausoluem of Prince Etmad Dowlah, 1860 - 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022D/25
Scope and Contents
297 x 241 mm. View from the entrance gateway looking across the garden to the mausoleum of I'timad-ud-daula, situated on the bank of the Jumna outside the old city. The 69 ft square tomb is set on a 150 ft square platform with squat octagonal towers at each corner. The tomb was erected by Nur Jahan, the wife of Jahangir, for her father who died in 1621. It was completed in 1628. The tomb is of white marble inlaid with decorative patterns in precious stones, and is important as the earliest...
Dates:
1860 - 1869
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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May and Lady Shaftesbury
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/396
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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May and Sir Pertab
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/202
Scope and Contents
Princess with Sir Pertab Singh, Maharaja of Idar
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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May arriving
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/375
Scope and Contents
Arrival of Prince (accompanied by the Nizam) and Princess
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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May arriving at Nizams Palace
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/380
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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May arriving in motor
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/395
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mayo College, Ajmere, 1908-02 - 1908-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 6/925
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscpae format). The High Class College for rich natives. (Fisher).
Dates:
1908-02 - 1908-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mayo College, Ajmere, 1874 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022J/64
Scope and Contents
265 x 200 mm. No. 3053.
Dates:
1874 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mayo College Magazine, 1906-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/35/3/37
Scope and Contents
Vol. 2, no. I
Dates:
1906-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mayo Memorial Hall, Allahabad, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/61
Scope and Contents
242x285mm. Interior view of the Mayo Memorial Hall, situated to the north of Alfred Park and erected in memory of the Viceroy Lord Mayo, assassinated in 1872. The view looks from the platform along the empty body of the hall towards the entrance and the large circular window above the triple arches of the doorway. Heavy barrel vaulting runs along the length of the hall, with the imposts of the pointed arches resting on columns in the gallery.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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McLeod & Co. new premises, Dalhousie Square W, 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/23
Scope and Contents
296x226mm. View of McLeod House at 28 Dalhousie Square West. The four storey office block is heavily rusticated on all floors, with the main facade broken by a massive order of Roman Ionic attached columns which run through three storeys. McLeod House was completed in 1917 on the site of the former Mercantile Bank, the firm having previously occupied premises at 31 Dalhousie Square. Founded by C.C. (later Sir Charles) McLeod in 1889, and originally operating from premises in Mangoe Lane, the...
Dates:
1918
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Measuring out the onion crop, 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/2/4/51
Scope and Contents
118 x 83 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1960
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Measuring the Tiger at Tikanpur, 1905-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 17/75
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints, 290 x 235 mm (mounted on card) with printed captions are in a black leather bound album with 'Royal Visit to Gwalior, December 1905' on the cover; the Prince of Wales Feathers, the Arms of Gwalior and the Maharaja's signature 'M. Scindia Gwalior 1905' in metal are attached to the front cover.
Dates:
1905-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Memorial Church, 'All Souls', Cawnpore, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/28
Scope and Contents
259 x 207 mm. General view of All Souls Memorial Church, Cawnpore, which was built to the north of Wheeler's Entrenchments. Begun in 1862, this church, built in Lombardic Gothic style of red brick and ashlar and dominated by a tall campanile, was designed by WaIter Granville (architect of the High Court and the Post Office in Calcutta). It was not consecrated until 1875 at a final cost of over £20,000.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Memorial cross in barracks, Cawnpore, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/29
Scope and Contents
207x261mm. Showing the memorial cross near the barracks in the Cawnpore cantonment. It bears the following inscription: 'In a well under this cross were laid, by ye hands of their fellows in suffering, ye bodies of men, women, and children, who died hard by during ye heroic defence of Wheeler's Entrenchment when beleaguered by the rebel Nana. - June 6th to 27th A.D. MDCCCLVII.' 250 members of the garrison were buried in this well.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Memorial Cross, Residency, Lucknow, 1905-12-26 - 1905-12-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/154
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints, of an approximate size of 80 x 100 mm, mounted on card, six to a page, in a padded black leather album inscribed on the cover India 1905-06 from C.C. and 'Photographs taken by Sir Charles Cust Bt. 1905-06' is written on the fly leaf in Queen Marys hand. Sir Charles Cust took this collection of amateur photographs while accompanying the Royal Party. Most of the photographs have elegant hand-written captiions, but these are not always very explicit - some portraying...
Dates:
1905-12-26 - 1905-12-28
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).