Archief GCH - Papers of Alexander Hamilton and Graves Chamney Haughton

The General Meeting Minutes for 1 April 1837 record: "From Sir Graves Haughton: Four MS volmes of Documents prepared under the direction of Lord Cornwallis during his first administration in Bengal, with a view for the perpetual Settlement". These are the four volumes on Finance in Bengal. It is not known when the volume on the Shahnamah of Firdausi was donated to the Society.

Five handwritten leather bound volumes - four contain Reports on the Finances of Bengal and the fifth contains English notes/translation of the Shahnamah of Firdausi. Each bears the names A. Hamilton and G. Haughton; the four Finance books also bear the inscription "Presented to the Royal Asiatic Society by Sir Graves Haughton, 1 April 1837."

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The Society also holds within its Collections: Fihrist-i Kutub-i Kitabkhanah-i Sarkar - A Catalogue of the Oriental MSS. in the College of Fort William, copied out in the year 1813, bearing the signature of Graves Haughton and presented to the Society by him. Taqwim-i hal-i sanah 38-i julus-i wala - Almanac for the 38th regnal year (of Shah 'Alam II, March 1795-March 1796), containing information on the Mughal dynasty, astronomical data and astrological predictions for the year, which bears the inscription "C.J. Haughton the gift of John Carnac Morris Esq." and was probably donated by Haughton. Padshah-namah. / 'Abd al-Hamid Lahauri. & 'Abd al-Salam Lahauri, presented to the Royal Asiatic Society by Abraham Welland Esq through Graves C. Haughton Esq. June 1830. The exposition of the Vedanta philosophy, by H. T. Colebrooke, Director of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, vindicated : being a refutation of certain published remarks of Colonel Vans Kennedy, President of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society / by Graves C. Haughton. (MDCCCXXXV [1835]) Catalogue des manuscrits samskrits de la Bibliothêque Impériale, avec des notices du contenu de la plupart des ouvrages, etc. par mm. Alexandre Hamilton, 1807. Full details of these items can be found on our Library catalogue: https://ras.koha-ptfs.co.uk/.