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GB 891 BHH-BHH/1-BHH/1/103
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Copy of a letter from Gajarajsing Thapa to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 28 June 1857
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- 28th Jun 1857 (Creation)
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Copy of a letter from Gajarajsing Thapa to Brian Houghton Hodgson with messages from Jung Bahadur about the massacre in Delhi and the military help offered by him to Lord Canning. Jung Bahadur plans to visit Lord Canning in Calcutta in November and he requests that Hodgson comes to Calcutta at that time as his wishes to have a meeting with Hodgson. He writes about the rumour of the fall of Delhi and that Nepal's Gorkhali troops are to be sent off the next day. Handwritten, 3 sides, dated 28 June 1857.
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- English
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- Gajarajsing Thapa (Subject)