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Bound volume compiled by various officers containing glossaries of revenue terms for the Indian districts of:

• Agra
• Allahabad
• Azamgarh (Azimghur)
• Betul (Baitool)
• Bijnor
• Delhi (Dehlee)
• Kanpur (Cawnpore)
• Etawah
• Fatehpur (Futtehpore)
• Ghazipur (Ghazeepoor)
• Gorakhpur (Goruekpoor)
• Hoshangabad (Hoshungabad)
• Jabalpur (Jubulpoor)
• Jaunpur (Jownpoor)
• Kanpur (Cawnpore)
• Kumaon
• Mathura (Muttra)
• Meerut
• Mirzapur
• Moradabad (south)
• Narsinghpur (Nursingpoor)
• Pilibhit (Pilibhut)
• Saharanpur (Suharanpoor)
• Shahjahanpur (Shahjihanpore)

These show the local dialect words for the terms required by the administrators.

There are four bound manuscripts. There are also handwritten and printed loose notes, pages and letters concerned with the preparation of the material.

The collection spans Henry Miers Elliot's career working for the Indian Civil Service from 1827 to 1853, and includes:

• Manuscripts mainly concerned with administration. These are in English and local Indian languages.
• Correspondence to Henry Miers Elliot
• Printed Material
• Visual Material, including copper-plate rubbings, agricultural drawings and a map of Baiswara.

Some of the material had previously been identified by Professor Simon Digby, Honorary Librarian to the Royal Asiatic Society (1970-1984). The information provided by him has been kept with the Henry Miers Elliot Papers.