Series SC29/1 - Peshwa Court Documents donated by John Briggs

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GB 891 SC29-SC29/1

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Peshwa Court Documents donated by John Briggs

Date(s)

  • 1742 - 1874 (Creation)

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15 documents handwritten

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Name of creator

Name of creator

Name of creator

(1932-2010)

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 toread more

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(1742-1800)

Biographical history

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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(1785-1875)

Biographical history

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 ofread more

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(1744-1772)

Biographical history

Madhu Rao I was the 9th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire.

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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 inread 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 articlesread more

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