Records of North Travancore Land Planting & Agricultural Society Ltd, land developers, Madras, India

Includes:

• Accounting records;
• Property records;
• Letterbooks 1893-1901;
• Minutes 1880-1901.

North Travancore Land Planting & Agricultural Society Ltd, was established in 1879  to purchase or otherwise acquire land for development and cultivation in North Travancore, India. The company sold extensive lands to Consolidated Tea & Lands Co Ltd, tea planters, Edinburgh, Scotland, and in 1897 , to Kanan Devan Hills Produce Co Ltd, tea planters, Glasgow, Scotland, both subsidiaries of James Finlay & Co Ltd, textile manufacturers, tea planters, and merchants, Glasgow, Scotland. In 1896 , Patrick Buchanan, founder of P R Buchanan & Co Ltd, tea planters, London, England, bought shares in North Travancore Land Planting & Agricultural Society Ltd. The company was still trading in the late 1890s .

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Material in other repositories: GB 059 Finlay Campbell & Co and Finlay Muir & Co (British Library: Oriental and India Office Collections)

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Description compiled in line with the following international standards: International Council on Archives, ISAD(G) Second Edition, September 1999and National Council on Archives, Rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names

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Collection catalogued by members of Glasgow University Archive Services staff. Catalogue converted to Encoded Archival Description by Michelle Kaye, Archives Assistant (Cataloguing), May 2012. Additional material catalogued and converted into Encoded Archival Description by Peter Morphew, Cataloguing Archivist, January 2016.