India (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 7965 Collections and/or Records:
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Sonamarg to Zoji La, 1941 - 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/13/53
Scope and Contents
130 x 85 mm. Showing three mounted men and one stood with the horses or ponies. Snow-capped mountains can be seen behind them. Location not identified, but probably Sonamarg.
Dates:
1941 - 1944
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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Sonamarg Trek, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/31
Scope and Contents
95 x 94 mm. A campsite containing three tents and a small group of people engaged in various activities.
Dates:
1939
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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Songs composed by Jagannatha Bhat Goswami, Tanjore Palace Pundit, in honour of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/35/2/31
Scope and Contents
Two copies.
Dates:
1906
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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[Sonomarg camp], 1941 - 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/13/43
Scope and Contents
105 x 60 mm. Showing tents pitched beneath some trees, with mountains visible behind them.
Dates:
1941 - 1944
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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Sopur, 1864
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022I/37
Scope and Contents
298 x 232 mm. View looking across the Jhelum towards the thatched houses of the town. Photograph by Bourne, no. 994.
Dates:
1864
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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South Block of the Secretariats
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 27/10
Scope and Contents
350 x 255 mm (captioned on mount).
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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South east angle of Residency
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/221
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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South east angle of Residency
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 6/229
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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South view of the Old Palace, 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 15/68
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints the majority of which are circa 290 x 215 mm., but 4-6, 9-18, 20-27, 51-55, 91-94, and 96-98 are approximately 140 x 100 mm. Nos. 4-27, 51 are scenes of the Royal Visit in November 1905, 19-26 being triumphal arches. The other subjects are the Maharajah and his family (1-3), Lallgarh Palace (28-50), Gujner (52-64), the Old Palace (65-82, 85), Bikaner City (83-84, 891-98 and Bikaner forces (89-90). There are printed captions: the collection is in a richly bound album...
Dates:
1905
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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Southern Indian, 1905 - 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/174
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 - 1906
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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Southern Mahratta Railway time tables for special trains conveying Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/35/2/36
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A collection of programmes, invitations, menus, photographs and other material issued in connection with the Royal Visit to India during 1905-1906.
Dates:
1906
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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Souvenir of Gwalior 1906, 1906
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 19
Scope and Contents
Contains prints of two main sizes, circa 295 x 210 mm and 137 x 93 mm.,the latter are indicated by (S): other sizes are noted. They are mounted on card and bound into a lavishly decorated album with metal corners, lettered on the front cover Souvenir of Gwalior 1906 and with the inscription 'With most respectful homage from Madhorao Scindia, Gwalior 1906'. The photographs, which include hunting scenes at Singhpur and Raipur and also architectural views, have printed captions.
Dates:
1906
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).
Fonds
Souvenir of India
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022ZZZZ
Scope and Contents
An accordion fold album containing 12 albumen prints showing domestic scenes, 143 x 100 mm in size, with pencil captions beneath each image (written over fainter pencil captions). The photographer is unknown, but a similarly titled album of the same size has been credited to the French photographer Jean Baptiste Oscar Mallitte (1829-1905).
Dates:
1870 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Souvenir of Jaipur 1905, 1905
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 14
Scope and Contents
This album has a printed title page 'Souvenir of Jaipur' with the printer given as 'Ajmer: Scottish Mission Industries Company Ltd.' There is a 10-page printed introduction followed by a collection of excellent photographs of scenes and architectural features in Jaipur. Each page of letterpress and photographs has a decorative border, the album is bound in a lavishly tooled and inlaid vellum cover, and kept in a box. Unless otherwise indicated, the prints are approximately 220 x 210...
Dates:
1905
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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S.P.C.A. [Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals] Show. Madras, 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302L/12
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This is a private album, measuring 260 x 230 mm, containing photographs of various formats taken by an amateur, supplemented by landscapes bought from commercial studios. Most images are captioned in white ink and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. The captions have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. A number of photographs are missing, although their captions remain. 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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Special divisional orders, Ootacamund, 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/35/2/34
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A collection of programmes, invitations, menus, photographs and other material issued in connection with the Royal Visit to India during 1905-1906.
Dates:
1906
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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Special trains for the tour of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Beluchistan and Sindh, 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/35/3/31-32
Scope and Contents
The booklet includes 12 photographs, which have been individually described.
Dates:
1906
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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Specimen of edible pine, Chini district, 1866
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022C/31
Scope and Contents
240 x 290 mm. View looking out over the valley, with two figures posed beside the pine tree in the foreground and the Chini peaks beyond. Bourne stayed some time at Chini, varnishing and sorting his collection of negatives made in the preceding weeks (62 in number, in addition to small ones). He had agreed to meet Dr Playfair here (Y3022C/ 20, 27), but received a note stating that the doctor had hurt his ankle and therefore proceeded to Simla. Bourne no. 1509
Dates:
1866
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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Speech notes., Jun 1945 - 30 Jul 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/7A-D
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's speech (11 July 1946, Livingstone Hall, Westminster, London) for a confidential meeting of the Executive Committee of Conservative and Unionist Associations including: his decision not to resign as Leader of the Conservative Party; criticisms of the Labour government; the need for organised opposition; and local party organisation. Source material includes: press cuttings; papers and notes on a variety of subjects including the organisation of the Conservative party,...
Dates:
Jun 1945 - 30 Jul 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Speeches: House of Commons: Speech notes., 08 Sep 1942 - 10 Dec 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/156
Scope and Contents
Typescript speech notes [with handwritten annotations by WSC and others], extract from Hansard and cutting from the Times, for WSC's speech (8 Sept 1942) entitled "The War Situation" on subjects including success in Vote of Censure debate, success of Malta convoy, the Dieppe [France] Raid, the war in the Pacific, the bombing campaign againt Germany, the Battle of the Atlantic, the condition of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert, and the appointment of Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard...
Dates:
08 Sep 1942 - 10 Dec 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Speeches: House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 27 Jan 1942 - 13 Apr 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/183A-C
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's speech (29 January) winding up a debate on the war situation and responding to parliamentary questions on subjects including: the vote of confidence in the government; general policy in the Far East; the defence of Singapore and Malaya [later Malaysia]; the scorched earth policy at Penang; the conduct of the war; and troops and supplies in India. Also includes correspondence from Oliver Locker-Lampson; Percy Harris; Sir Arnold Gridley; Colin Thornley [Principal Private...
Dates:
27 Jan 1942 - 13 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Speeches: House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 08 Sep 1942 - 11 Sep 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/186A-B
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's speech (8 September) on the war situation including: his position as Prime Minister; the success of getting supplies to Malta; successes of United States and Australian troops against Japan in Pacific; the U Boat war; the United States mission of Harry Hopkins [Aide to President Roosevelt], General George Marshall [Chief of Staff, United States Army] and Admiral Ernest King [Commander in Chief United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations] to Great Britain; WSC's...
Dates:
08 Sep 1942 - 11 Sep 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Speeches: House of Commons: speech notes and source material., 29 Jan 1934 - 23 Apr 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/107A-B
Scope and Contents
Source material includes a government memorandum for the Disarmament Conference [Geneva, Switzerland].Brief notes for WSC's speech (7 February) against disarmament and on Britain's defence needs, which includes the phrase "We are vulnerable as we have never been before". Published: Complete Speeches V pp 5321-6.Notes for WSC's speech (6 March) on the army estimates and India. Also includes relevant extract from Hansard. Published: Complete Speeches V pp 5329-35.Notes for WSC's speech (8...
Dates:
29 Jan 1934 - 23 Apr 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Speeches: House of Commons: speech notes and source material., 13 Jun 1934 - Dec 1934
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/108A-B
Scope and Contents
Notes for WSC's speech (13 June) on the Committee of Privileges' report into allegations concerning the Secretary of State for India [Sir Samuel Hoare, later 1st Lord Templewood] and 17th Lord Derby [Member of the Joint Select Committee on the Indian Constitution]. Also includes copies of Hansard containing speech. Published: Complete Speeches V pp 5359-73.Brief notes for WSC's speech (13 July) on the League of Nations and disarmament. Published: Complete Speeches V pp 5377-81.Notes for...
Dates:
13 Jun 1934 - Dec 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Speeches: House of Commons: speech notes and source material., 22 May 1935 - 24 Oct 1935
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/113
Scope and Contents
Brief notes for WSC's speech (22 May) on a speech by Adolf Hitler, and comparing German and British military strength. Published: Complete Speeches VI pp 5610-7.Rough notes for WSC's speech (31 May) entitled "Deepening and Darkening Danger" on Germany's threat and influence in Europe. Published: Complete Speeches VI pp 5624-7.Notes for WSC's speech (5 June) on his continued doubts about the Government of India Bill, the role of the Indian Princes and Civil Service in the scheme, and...
Dates:
22 May 1935 - 24 Oct 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open