Reid, James Robert, 1838-1908 (Administrator, British Raj)

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Biography

James Robert Reid (1838-1908) was born in Edinburgh, the son of Dr Alexander Reid, LLD. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh. In 1860 he joined the Indian Civil Service and served in the North-Western Provinces, where he revised the land settlement of the district of Azimgarh. In 1884 he was appointed Chief Secretary to Government and Senoir Member of the Board of Revenue in 1890 and was decorated C.I.E. In 1894 he retired and eventually settled in Edinburgh, where he was active in the affairs of the Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor. He served on the Council of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society from 1898 and contributed several articles to the Magazine. ('Obituary', Scottish Geographical Magazine, XXV, 2 (1909), pp.89-90; 'Mr James Robert Reid', Charity Organisation Review, 25, no. 146 (1909), pp.107–8, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43788488 [external link, accessed on 9 August 2023]). Reid also served on the Council of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

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انتظام راج اعظم گڙه Intiẓām-i Rāj-i A‘ẓamgaṛh, undated (original text compiled 19th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 237

Scope and Contents The story of the rulers of A‘ẓamgaṛh (a Ta‘alluqah in the United Provinces of India), from the time of Abhman-Singh and Sagar-Rāi, sons of Chand-Sen, of the tribe of Rajpūts and Zamīndārs of Mahnagar (in the parganah of Niẓāmābād), till the death of the Rānī, wife of the Rājah Muḥammad A‘ẓam Khān, and end of the rūj (rule).The work, which in its composition is interspersed with numerous verses, was compiled by Girdhāri (see introduction), a ...

Dates: undated (original text compiled 19th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

سرگذشتِ راجهای اعظم گڙه Sarguẕasht-i Rājahā-yi A‘ẓamgaṛh, 1289 A.H., 1872 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 238

Scope and Contents A brief account of the rulers of A‘ẓamgaṛh by Sayyid Amīr ‘Alī Raz̤wī, who mentions several nobles of Niẓāmābād, all of whom had attained long ages, as the authority for this work. The history begins from the adventures of Abhman-Singh, son of Chandar-Sen-Rāi, of the tribe of Gūtam, who received the title of Nādir-Dawlat-Khān from the Mughal Emperor Akbar (1542-1605 C.E.), and ends with the transfer of the district in Faṣlī 1205 (1801 C.E.) by the Nawwāb Wazīr Sa‘ādat ‘Alī Khān of Awadh to...

Dates: 1289 A.H.; 1872 C.E.

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

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