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India

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 243 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Charles Ludolf Griesbach, 14 September 1878

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/1/6
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Charles Ludolf Griesbach thanking him for recommending him for the post of 3rd grade assistant on the Geological Survey of India.

Dates: 14 September 1878
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Letters to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Joseph Anderson, 15 November 1893

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/6/16
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Joseph Anderson with a bibliography for information on the Coronation Stone. He gives Geikie news of his son William, who is now undertaking his second year as a geologist in the Central Provinces of India and finding it hard to provision his camp.

Dates: 15 November 1893
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: W[illiam] G[rylls] Adams to Paul Apfelstedt

Letters of Mary Edith Pechey-Phipson

 Fonds — Box Dk.7.54-64
Identifier: Coll-2240
Scope and Contents This collections consists of 17 letters from Dr Mary Edith Pechey-Phipson M.D. 1869, 1884-1892. Sixteen letters are to aunts (two or more), one of whom ("Aunt Garrie") was Mrs Wansbrough of Shrewton, Wiltshire. The first, dated Edinburgh 23 October 1869, speaks of her early medical studies and mentions Sophia Jex-Blake; the other fifteen letters (dated 1884-1892) were mostly written in India and touch on life and work in that country. One of these is a copy. One letter is to her sister...
Dates: 1869-1892
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Lift Scoop, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/180
Scope and Contents

Photograph of men standing around a lift scoop in the jungle in the early 20th century India.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Mahābhārata, illustrated manuscript scroll, 1795 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 510
Scope and Contents A monumental epic (or perhaps more correctly a ‘chronicle’) dated as a text to about 400 BCE – 400 CE, the Mahābhārata consists of dramatic narrative and sermonising didactic on ethics and moral law (dharma) as played out in the lives of two groups of dynastic cousins who fought over control of Bhāratavarṣa, present day central north India. It is one of the two major epics of ancient India, the...
Dates: 1795 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Malvi Bull, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2647
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Malvi bull with an Indian man holding its lead standing in a farm yard in front of a barn in India in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Malvi Bull and Bullock, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1274
Scope and Contents

PhotographS of a Malvi bull and a Malvi bullock standing in a paddock with an Indian man holding their harness in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Mango Tree in Full Fruit, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/78
Scope and Contents

Photograph by G N Collins in the October 1911 edition of the National Geographic Magazine of a mango tree in full fruit in India.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Manuscript of Walter Bruce Davis

 Collection
Identifier: MS DAV 3
Scope and Contents

Typed manuscript entitled 'Alexander Duff; Prince of Indian Missionaries'. 338 pages

Dates: 1975
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Marwaree Women, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1450
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Photograph of two Marwaree women dressed in saris and jewellery in the early 20th century India. The text beneath the image notes that the, 'Marwaree are the money lenders of India.' and 'their women, as shown above, wear picturesque dresses of bright colours.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection