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John Drew Bate's first edition of his Hindi Dictionary was published in 1875, titled, A Dictionary of the Hindee Language. A second edition was published in 1918. This collection contains both handwritten manuscripts and annotated printed manuscripts either for production of the second edition or work towards a further unprinted edition.

The material also contains some correspondence to Miss E E Bate regarding the possibility of a third edition of the Dictionary post John Drew Bate's death.

This file contains a printed version of the MS which has been heavily annotated by hand by John Drew Bate.

The manuscript contains both Hindi to English and English to Hindi components, An archival note has been added at some point saying "Bate MSS Additions to his Hindi Dictionary, Deposited by Miss Bate 1929"

Within the MSS are some added notes on scraps of paper and a few pages of printed proofs

This is a handwritten article about Hindi music - a 'neat' copy with no annotations. It is undated but accompanying it are 2 newspaper clippings from "The Times of India" concerning the Revival of Indian Music in Indian Schools, dated 3rd August, 1930. These therefore must have been put with the article at a later date, possibly by E E Bate

An unbound manuscript consisting of three separate pages, the content of which is a Hindi vocabulary of religious acts from birth to death.

Five notebooks labelled "Hindu and Early Indian" containing notes regarding the Hindu religion and Indian culture. It would seem that this was at some time a larger collection as Volume II is absent. They are:

• Hindu and Early Indian Vol I - containing notes on royalty and the law taken from sources such as Elliot's History of India, Tod's Annals, Hearn
• Hindu and Early Indian Vol III - notes taken from sources such as Hopkins, Fick and Senart
• Hindu and Early Indian Vol IV - notes taken from sources such as Senart and Formichi
• Hindu and Early Indian Vol V - notes taken from sources such as Fry, Jolly, Hunter, Uyavahav, Mayutha
• Hindu and Early Indian Vol VI - notes taken from sources such as Jolly, Weber, Baden Powell, Lyall, Zimmer, McGrindle and Yule's Marco Polo

A Sanskrit treatise on Hindu astronomy.

'The Historical Account of the Expedition of Sudasew Chimnajie commonly called Bhou or Sudoban to the North India or Hindostan And of his total Defeat of Death in the great Battle of Panniput'. This document relates the expedition of Sadashiv Chimanji Bhausaheb to Panipat in 1761. According to Kulkarni, this version of the bakhar or report was first written between July and December 1761 by Raghunath Yadev Chitragupt for his master the Prime Minister of Kolhapur state. The bakhar ends with the award of the robes of the Peshwa's office to Madhav Rao in 20 July 1761. It describes the battle of Panipat including those who died and were taken prisoner. It is believed to be the earliest version of this bakhar. The band has Arabic script containing the date November 1788.
The plan of Aurangabad is in colour with place names in Marathi and Arabic script, measuring 84 x 64 cm.

Four volumes by Hamilton and Haughton which are concerned with the Finances of Bengal and were compiled for the East India Company. Each consists of handwritten manuscripts bound into leather volumes which seem to have been produced consecutively. All were presented to the Royal Asiatic Society by Sir Graves Haughton on 1 April 1837.They are: "Historical and Comparative Analysis of the Finances of Bengal chronologically arranged in different periods, from the Moghul Conquest to the Present time, extracted from a political survey of the British Dominions and tributary dependencies in India". This volume cover the first two periods. Historical and Comparative Analysis of the Finances of Bengal covering the third period. Bound with it is an accompanying letter to the Right Honorable Charles Earl Cornwallis. "Historical & Comparative view of the Revenues of Bengal... A.D.1765-1784" This also includes a letter to the Right Honorable Charles Earl Cornwallis to accompany the report. "Supplement to the Historical and Comparative Analysis of the finances of Bengal...containing a similar disquisition on the revenue of the dependent Dominions of Soubah Behar, Chuckleh Midnapore in Orissa and the Zamindary of Benares in the Soubah of Allahabad, Calcutta, June 30th 1787".

"History of Ghazi al Deen Khan written by his Friend & Confidant Noor al Deen Hussun Khan". Document relating the life of Ghazi al-Din Khan by Nur al-Din Hasan Khan, possibly Nur al-din Hussein Khan, vakil (agent) at the Company Residency and assistant to Malet, the Resident.