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Handwritten account in Persian of the castes of Zamindars in the Pargana (administrative unit) of Nirun, Varanasi (Benares) District, followed by an account of the caste of Gautam, Raja of Benares. Booklet consisting of five loose pages. Simon Digby notes that it may have been produced c.1825, and come into Elliot's possession.

Addressed to W.C. Mcleod, this account of the branches of the North Indian Khatri caste is, as Simon Digby notes, written in pencil in the Persian shikasta script.

Four unbound manuscript pages for Elliot's 'A History of India', printed by the Oriental Lithographic Press, Calcutta:

• Appendices III A and III B: Diagrams depicting unknown, labelled items, probably hill towns, surrounded by notes in Arabic and one other, as yet undeciphered, script
  *. Item labelled 'No.VIII', probably an appendix: Diagrammatic map depicting a town and its buildings, numbered and labelled in Arabic.
• Item labelled 'No.XV - Number 1': Printed table and map for the 'Village of Mouza Sooltanpoor, Purgunuh of Noh Jheel, Zilla Muttra', labelled in English. The table shows a brief, surveyed description of the area, which includes the number of houses and wells, amount of land covered by buildings, the cost of various items, the general caste of inhabitants, and the depth of water

Bound volume of the topography and statistics of the Delhi territory, largely handwritten with various printed pages inserted, and one printed map. Includes information on the various Pergunnahs (Parganas), or administrative units, within the region.

Bound volume of the topography and statistics of the Rohilcund division, handwritten and containing one printed map. Also contains a letter from P. ('Pilgrim', his pseudonym) Barron, a sugar merchant and supposed founder of Nainital, dated 1842.

Bound, handwritten volume of the topography and statistics of the Saugor and Nerbudda territory (located in present-day Madhya Pradesh). Includes information on the various Pergunnahs (Parganas), or administrative units, within the region.

Three bound, handwritten volumes concerning the topography and statistics of the Dehli, Rohilcund, and Saugor and Nerbudda territories.

Various tables and notes in an undeciphered Indic script, possibly Persian or Urdu, concerning information on the castes and communities of the Agra district.

Largely comprised of tables, although one item appears to be a letter, the contents of this file are handwritten in Arabic script, possibly Persian or Urdu. All items have what appears to be an official stamp, and are the caste and community census for Jaunpur (Jounpoor) District, Uttar Pradesh.

Manuscripts containing census information on the castes of Zamindars (local hereditary lords and land holders) in the Azamgarh (Azangurh) Pargana. Letters, notes and tables written in Urdu, with one printed page in English, on the reverse of which is written 'Persian'.