Copies of reports and papers concerning attempted reforms of the government and finances of the Madras presidency in 1798-1800, probably copied for Thomas Cockburn, one of the committee of reform.
Papers Relating to Madras
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Eng. hist. b. 225-7
- Dates of Creation
- 1788-1799
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 3 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Thomas Cockburn of the East India Company.
Access Information
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).
Acquisition Information
The papers were bequeathed by B.H. Baden-Powell (d 1901) to the Indian Institute, and transferred to the Library in 1975.
Note
Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 39680-2.