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- 1742 - 1874 (Creation)
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15 documents handwritten
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Simon Everard Digby was born in India in 1932 and was educated at Stowe School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He travelled in India and Pakistan before returning to England to complete a PhD at the School of Oriental and Africa Studies. He returned to… read more
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Documents of the Maratha Peshwa Court given to John Briggs by the widow of Nana Fadnavis. This includes original correspondence to Madhu Rao and Nana Fadnavis. The letters commence with the public life of Nana Fadnavis in 1761 and end with his fall in… read more
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
The material was first appraised by Simon Everard Digby and identified and labelled. This was used to identify the material for cataloguing from the articles written By John Briggs in the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society.
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- English
- Persian
- Marathi
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John Briggs translated the biography: Memoir of the early Life of Nan Farnevis and also Secret Correspondence of the Court of the Peshwa, Madhu Rao, from the Year 1761 to 1772. Translated from Original Mahratta Letters, translations of these papers and… read more
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- Briggs John 1785-1875 (Subject)
- Nana Fadnavis 1742-1800 (Subject)
- Madhu Rao I Peshwa 1744-1772 (Subject)
- Digby Simon Everard 1932-2010 (Subject)
- Balaji Baji Rao 1721-1761 (Subject)
- Moraba Fadnavis (Subject)
- Raghunath Rao (Subject)
- Sokharam Bapu (Subject)