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Handmade notebook of tables of castes in districts of Upper India, pasted to the front of which is an Urdu letter to Elliot from Chuni Lal, dated January 1825.

Some individual and some loosely tied papers, others being handmade booklets, concerning the survey information of castes and communities of local Zamindars (lords and land holders, usually hereditary) in Gorakhpur District. All in Arabic script, probably Persian or Urdu.

Various pages in Urdu, some loose and some lightly tied, showing tables of caste and community census in the District of Ghazipur (Ghazeepoor), Uttar Pradesh. Some items appear to be letters or short notes, and most items in the file are stamped with what appear to be official seals.

Three items, two of which consist of multiple, loosely tied papers and the other appearing to be a label, all in Arabic script, probably Persian or Urdu. Caste and community census information on local Zamindars from the Varanasi (Benares) District.

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'.

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.

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

The broken cast of an inscribed seal-stone sent to West by E. Drouin in June 1896. Please note that this cast is in fragments. With the seal-stone are tracings and rubbings of it with tentative transcriptions, and an alphabet. Also a photograph and a rubbing of an eighteen-line Pahlavi inscription. Also the original cardboard package in which the cast was sent. Identified as West 57F in de Menasce handlist.

Plaster cast of an inscribed clay tablet found at Kedah Site 2 with three faces bearing two lines of Sanskrit inscription. Further information can be found in the Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1940, pp. 8-10 and Plate 8.

Carte-postale from Richard Burton to A.G. Ellis concerning the publication of the "Perfumed Garden". Handwritten from Trieste, dated 8 May, 1887. With annotated transcription.