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- 1742 - 1874 (Creation)
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15 documents handwritten
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Biographical history
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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Nana Fadnavis (Furnewees) was an influential minister and statesman of the Maratha Empire during the Peshwa administration in Pune, India. He was born in Satara in 1742. Nana was the grandson of Balaji Mahadji Bhanu, an administrator at the Peshwa court,… read more
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John Briggs entered the Madras Infantry in 1801. He took part in the Mahratta wars, serving in the final campaign as a political officer under Sir John Malcolm, whom he had previously accompanied on his mission to Persia in 1810. He was one of… read more
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Scope and content
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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Language of material
- English
- Marathi
- Persian
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John Briggs translated the biography and some correspondence in two essays 'An Autobiographical Memoir of the early Life of Nana Farnevís' and 'Secret Correspondence of the Court of the Peshwa, Madhu Rao, from the Year 1761 to 1772'. Both these articles… read more
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- Balaji Baji Rao 1721-1761 (Subject)
- Moraba Fadnavis (Subject)
- Raghunath Rao (Subject)
- Sokharam Bapu (Subject)