Category: SOURCE MATERIAL

SOURCE MATERIAL ON SINDH AVAILABLE
IN LIBRARIES OF THE WEST

These documents are held at  British  Library,  Asia, Pacific  and  Africa
 Collections

1.     
  The Sindh Incumbered Estates
Bill 1881: A Bill to amend the law providing for the relief of Jágirdárs and
Zamindárs in Sindh  IOR/L/PJ/6/51, File 1411  2
Sep 1881

2.     
  Archaeological Survey of
Western India: No 8 Reports regarding the archaeological remains in the
Kurrachee, Hyderabad and Shikarpur Collectorates in Sindh, with plans of tombs.
Bombay, 1879  IOR/V/21/25, No 8  1879

3.     
  Archaeological Survey of
Western India: No 4 Provisional lists of architectural and other archaeological
remains in Western India, including the Bombay Presidency, Sindh, Berar,
Central Provinces and Haidarabad. J. Burgess. Bombay, 1875  IOR/V/21/25,
No 4  1875

4.     
  India. Finance and Commerce
Department. Report on the system of weighing salt in Bengal, Madras, Bombay,
Sindh, Northern India and Burmah. Calcutta, 1890  IOR/V/27/324/3  1890

5.     
  Memorandum, Sindh frontier. O
T Burne, 1 Dec 1875  IOR/L/PS/18/A11  1 Dec 1875

6.     
  Act XI, 1884; An Act to amend
the Sindh Incumbered Estates Act, 1881  IOR/L/PJ/6/131, File 1475  18
Jul 1884

7.     
  Papers relative to the Bill
to amend the Sindh Encumbered Estates Act, 1881  IOR/L/PJ/6/91,
File 254  23 Jan 1883

8.     
  Papers relative to the Bill
to amend the Sindh Encumbered Estates Act, 1881  IOR/L/PJ/6/90,
File 155  9 Jan 1883

9.     
  The Sindh Incumbered Estates
Act 1881  IOR/L/PJ/6/54, File 1685  7 Oct 1881

10.    The Sindh Encumbered Estate Act, 1896  IOR/L/PJ/6/433,
File 2015  21 Oct 1896

11.    The Bill to amend the Sindh Incumbered Estates Act,
1881  IOR/L/PJ/6/91, File 196  16 Jan 1883

12.    Papers relative to the Bill to amend the Sindh
Incumbered Estates Act, 1881  IOR/L/PJ/6/90, File 116  26
Dec 1882

13.    A Bill to amend the Sindh Incumbered Estates Act,
1881  IOR/L/PJ/6/87, File 2004  6 Nov 1882

14.    [no title]  Add.MS8330/4/7/12  1913
Mar 12

These documents are held at Cambridge University Library, Department of
Manuscripts and University Archives

Contents:

Sukkur, Sindh

15.    [no title]  IOR/F/4/729/19769  Jul
1818-Mar 1820

Related information: Bengal Pol 25 Jun 1824, draft 388/1823-24, E/4/711
pp 869-70

[See also 10054]

Contents:

Treaty concluded between the Company and the Raja of Datia [Parichhat], by
which the latter receives the lands known as Chaurasi Ilaka, to the east of the
Sindh river.

16.    [no title]  Mss Eur K216  1817

1 volume

Creator(s): Macmurdo, James, 1785-1820, Captain

Contents:

‘Modern Sindh’: description of Sind and the River Indus, presumably by Capt
James Macmurdo (1785-1820), Bombay Army 1801-20. The first part was published
in edited form as ‘An account of the Country of Sindh…’ in ‘Journal of the
Royal Asiatic Society’ (1834).

17.    File No. 264 of 1923. Proposed removal of Pathan
Settlements from Sindh Valley, as an undesirable foreign body. Declaration of
Bakarwells as a criminal tribe in the Jammu & Kashmir State.  IOR/R/2/1067/90  1923

 

18.    Reports on the districts lately resumed from Meer
Alli Moorad in Sindh, by Lieuts Webster, Lester and Dickson. Bombay: Bombay
Education Society’s Press, 1853  IOR/V/23/207, No 13  1853

101p, maps

Contents:

Booldekka District, by T.B. Webster; Shahbeyha, Chuck and Syudabad Districts,
by T.B. Webster; Districts on the left bank of the Indus, by J.F. Lester, with
a brief sketch of the history of the Derhs of Derkkee; Annual revenues and
population of the villages of Moghlee, by W.D. Dickson

Note: Index No 569

19.    Case of Francisco Fernandez, convicted of murder at
Hyderabad in Sindh  IOR/L/PJ/6/135, File 1942  5
Sep 1884

20.    A Bill to amend the Sindh Encumbered Estates Act,
1881  IOR/L/PJ/6/128, File 1194  6 Jun 1884

21.    Papers on the Bill to amend the Sindh Incumbered
Estates Act, 1881  IOR/L/PJ/6/109, File 1927  8
Oct 1883

22.    Commission from a Court in Malta for examination of
witnesses in Sindh  IOR/L/PJ/6/520, File 1870  13
Sep 1899

23.    [no title]  8112/54-736 to -758  19
Sep-28 Dec 1878

These documents are held at National Army Museum, Department of Archives
Photographs Film and Sound

Contents:

In letters and one out letter including 6 from Sir Richard Temple (Governor of
Bombay), and 4 from Maj Gen J M Primrose. The following are of particular note:

-736 19 Sep Staveley (Warre’s predecessor) advising him of the need to keep the
Duke of Cambridge informed of matters affecting the Army, and stating that the
Governor was favourably disposed towards the Army.

-738 7 Oct (or Nov?) Primrose advancing his claim for a command in Afghanistan.

-740 18 Oct Temple on the threatened reduction of the Bombay Army.

-742 26 Oct copy letter to Temple reviewing British policy towards Afghanistan.

-743 26 Oct Temple explaining the Amir’s hostility towards Britain.

-747 Oct? Temple on the troops required in Sindh.

-750 17 Nov Primrose, on the disappointment in the 11th Foot on not being able
to proceed on active service.

24.    Marsh, Henry, Sindh River Canal Project: estimate
report and appendices [with map]. Ajmer: Scottish Mission Industries Company,
1907  IOR/V/27/733/20  1907

25.    Memoranda on miscellaneous subjects. Vol. 1.
1871-1875.” Sindh frontier O T Burne, Political and Secret Dept, India
Office, 1 Dec 1875  IOR/L/PS/20/MEMO31/18  1 Dec
1875

8pp

26.    House of Commons question on the difference in
educational qualifications required for Hindu and Mohammedan candidates for
Government Service in Sindh  IOR/L/PJ/6/370, File 575  5
Apr 1894

27.    Report on the movement of troops and military stores
during the Afghan War over the Sindh, Punjab and Delhi, and the Frontier State
Railways. Col Julius George Medley. Lahore, 27 Sep 1880.  IOR/L/MIL/17/14/58  1880

11p, 33cm

28.    FROST, PRIVATE CHARLES (C.1808-?)  QRWS/30/FROS/  1834-1846

These documents are held at Surrey History Centre

Contents:

Born, c.1808. Enlisted at Ipswich, 1825. Served with 1st Company, Queen’s, in
East Indies, 1827-1838; Sindh, Baluchistan and Afghanistan, 1838-1840; East
Indies, 1840-1845. Awarded Guzee 1839 Medal and Bronze Regimental Cross of
Merit. Discharged, 1846.

29.    [no title]  Mss Eur F127/206  1867

3 copies

Contents:

Irrigation of Sindh.

30.    [no title]  Mss Eur D951/25  1875-95

Contents:

Memoranda by Burne on the Sindh Frontier, Khelat, Chitral and the Tochi Valley
[printed] .

31.    [no title or date]  Mss Eur F208/214

Contents:

Miscellaneous Sindhi books and pamphlets (Dinsabri akhah jo qisso [Mrs
Halliburton’s troubles] by Henry Wood translated by Lilaram Vilaytrae Hyderabad
1921; Laila Majnon-i Qadiri by Miyan ‘Ali Muhammad Qadiri, Larkano 1929; Sindhi
Satvan kitab, Karachi 1954; Guldasto by Lilaram Premcand, Karachi 1922;
Pakistan A’igrikalcaral inkuva’ iri kameti. Svalnamo 1, Karachi 1951; Sindh jo
zara’ati kato, 92, 94 490, Karachi; Vatkar by Jamali, Karachi 1952[?]; title
page of Hindustan ji tavarikh by Paritamdas, Qismatra e Tolani, Karachi 1892.)

32.    [no title or date]  Mss Eur F208/120

Contents:

Notes from the Sind Blue Books; also notes from various secondary works
including Personal Observations on Sindh (1843) by Thomas Postans