A leather bound portfolio containing four folders entitled 'Caves in the Satara Districts', 'Mahar and Kura Caves', 'Junnar Caves and Nana Ghat', and 'Nasik Caves South and North Series'.

Documents relating to the Poona Caves. These are:

• No.1: A description written in 1855.
• No.2: A plan of the large Cave, scale 30 ft to an inch; unfinished drawings of a moulding and a column, scale 1/2 inch to a foot; and two photographs taken in 1856.
• No.3: An envelope containing three paper impressions of ornaments on a frieze under sculpture No.5.

Plans of the caves 6 & 7, and 16 & 17 which are found on a higher level. The scale is 30feet to an inch. This is sheet 7 in the folder.

Drawings of the Pilaster, Columns and Parapet of the Verandah, Cave No.26

Drawings of a pilaster ornament of the inner verandah, and of panelling to the parapet of the outer verandah of Cave number 6.

Drawing of a Pilaster and columns of Verandah, Cave No.17. There is a furhter drawing on tracing paper of the pilaster in cave 26.

Drawings of "Modern inscriptions on pillars" in Cave No. 5.

Drawings of Caves Nos, 1,2 and 3,4, and 5 at Páteshwar, showing the dimensions of each cave.

Drawings of Caves Nos. 1 and 2 at Patan and of a Dhagob.

This collection consists of seven leather bound portfolios containing topographical drawings, maps, floor plans, notes and papers that the West brothers had created when working in the Maharashtra region of India in the mid to late 1800's. The main focus of the collection is the Kanheri Caves; a group of over 109 rock cut temples located in what is today the Sanjay Gandhi National Park on the western outskirts of Mumbai. The brothers studied these caves over the course of several decades, returning to the site many times to check and amend measurements, locations, and expand open their interpretation of the site. The remainder of the collection covers several other sites such as: Ajanta, Ellora and Daulatabad.