Fonds SK - Notes on Cuddapah

"Notes on Cudapah" (Kadapa), "Read July 17/30" "Ordered not to be printed Nov 13/30" with label "Catalogue of English MSS. II No 5, Cuddapah, Presented by Mrs Skinner and read before the Society on 17 July 1830. Three anecdotes concerning traditions:

• The self-devotion of a headman of the village of Chitwail
• An account of the "Assaree Shereef" - a building erected to contain a hair from the beard of Muhammad
• The behaviour of a fakir Handwritten, 3 pages + label.

This manuscript and details concerning it are found in the Society's "Catalogue of English Manuscripts in the R.A.S.", p.20.

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it appears that Mrs Skinner also gave another paper concerning Cuddapah to the Society, "Traditional Account of Cuddapah collected from the natives on the spot". This no longer seems to be in the Society's Collections. (See Catalogue of English Manuscripts, p.36)

The handwritten "Catalogue Of English Manuscripts in the R.A.S." provides details of this material.
The reading of this paper was reported in the Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, Volume 2, 1830, p.328.