Unidad documental compuesta BHH/13/26 - Languages of the Indo-Chinese Peninsula and the Indian Archipelago

Área de identidad

Código de referencia

GB 891 BHH-BHH/13-BHH/13/26

Título

Languages of the Indo-Chinese Peninsula and the Indian Archipelago

Fecha(s)

  • 1877 (Creación)

Nivel de descripción

Unidad documental compuesta

Volumen y soporte

Área de contexto

Nombre del productor

(24/2/1821 – 27/10/1909)

Historia biográfica

Born on 24/2/1821 to Reverend Henry Cockayne Cust, he was educated at Eton College, Trinity College, Cambridge, Haileybury (1840–42) and the College of Fort William, Calcutta, graduating in 1844. He then worked in the Bengal Civil Services for the East India Company, in Hoshiarpur and Ambala (assistant to the magistrate), in India. He was present at the battles of Mudki, Ferozeshah, and Sobraon in 1845–46, where his superior Major George Broadfoot was killed and at the close of the Sikh campaign he was placed in charge of a new province in the Punjab. There he filled in succession every office in the judicial and revenue departments across Punjab, and was rapidly promoted until 1867, when he resigned and returned to England, after having been a member of the Viceroy's Legislative Council and Home Secretary to the Government of India in 1864–65.

Cust returned to England briefly on furlough and returned to work in Benares and Banda. Cust was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn on 13 August 1857. He returned to India and served in Lahore until 1864. He later joined the legislative council and acted as home secretary to the government (1864–65). In 1867 he decided to retire from Indian service.

After retiring to England Cust devoted himself to scientific research, philanthropy, and magisterial and municipal duties, declining reappointments in India. He was a member and officer in many scientific, philanthropic, and religious societies and a prolific writer. He was one of the few Victorian intellectuals to oppose the racist theories popular at the time.

Institución archivística

Historia archivística

Origen del ingreso o transferencia

Área de contenido y estructura

Alcance y contenido

"Languages of the Indo-Chinese Peninsula and the Indian Archipelago" by R.N. Cust. Printed pamphlet produced by the Philological Society. Hodgson has written his own title on the front cover alongside Cust's inscription to him. Soft cover pamphlet, 38 pages, dated 1877.

Valorización, destrucción y programación

Acumulaciones

Sistema de arreglo

Área de condiciones de acceso y uso

Condiciones de acceso

Condiciones

Idioma del material

  • inglés

Escritura del material

    Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras

    Características físicas y requisitos técnicos

    Instrumentos de descripción

    Área de materiales relacionados

    Existencia y localización de originales

    Existencia y localización de copias

    Unidades de descripción relacionadas

    Descripciones relacionadas

    Área de notas

    Identificador/es alternativo(os)

    Puntos de acceso

    Puntos de acceso por materia

    Puntos de acceso por lugar

    Puntos de acceso por autoridad

    Tipo de puntos de acceso

    Área de control de la descripción

    Identificador de la descripción

    Identificador de la institución

    Reglas y/o convenciones usadas

    Estado de elaboración

    Nivel de detalle

    Fechas de creación revisión eliminación

    Idioma(s)

      Escritura(s)

        Fuentes

        Área de Ingreso