Zone d'identification
Cote
GB 891 FBH-FBH/3
Titre
Statistical Survey of the District of Shahabad
Date(s)
- 1809 - 1810 (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Série
Étendue matérielle et support
2 volumes handwritten manuscripts
Zone du contexte
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
The Statistical Survey of the District of Shahabad consists of 2 volumes. The first contains:
- Book I: Topography and Antiquities of Shahabad (295 pages)
- Book II: People of Shahabad(167 pages)
The second volume contains:
- Book III: The Natural Production of Shahabad (142 pages)
- Book IV: State of Agriculture in Shahabad (199 pages)
- Book V: State of Arts and Commerce in Shahabad (100 pages)
- Index to the Map (48 pages)
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- anglais
Script of material
Language and script notes
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Finding aids
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
The Library Collections contain the printed "An Account of the District of Shahabad in 1809-1810" by Francis Buchanan (Patna, 1934). The material within this volume is representative of the the handwritten manuscripts, though there are some differences in the appendices. The collections also contain "Journal of Francis Buchanan kept during the survey of the district of Shahabad in 1812-1813, Edited with Notes and Introduction by C.E.A.W. Oldham (Patna 1926)