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Benares (inhabited place) -- Varanasi -- Vārānasi

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Well at Benares, 1908-01 - 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 4/550
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Well at Benares inside garden. My guide policeman said and insisted : 'this is well in which Warren Hastings hid himeself during the Mutiny. I have not yet found out what story he can have referred to and confused. In the garden within the wall were the quarters occupied in the autumn of 1781 by warren Hastings, First Governor General of Fort William in Bengal.' [? Fisher quoting inscription in garden].

Dates: 1908-01 - 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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Well of Knowledge Benares, 1902 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022R/35
Scope and Contents From the Series: An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The prints are of two types; large professional photographs, chiefly of Benares, Delhi, and Agra, and smaller amateur prints. presumably by Davies, relating both to these places and to Kashmir - river and mountain scenes. These are chiefly on left hand pages, with professional photographs on the right, and are captioned. Towards the end of the album, after a series of Agra scenes, there is a group of interesting...
Dates: 1902 - 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).