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India

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 240 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of Colin Legum

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-693
Scope and Contents This collection comprises the papers of Colin Legum, an Anti-Apartheid activist and political exile, and later newpaper political correspondent. It includes correspondence files, committee minutes, freelance articles, files in legal document wallets labelled alphabetically, office filing, published periodicals, journals, research files, press cuttings, notes, publications, and newspapers relating to the post-colonial history of many countries mostly in Africa, but also in the Middle East and...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1950s-1970s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Colonel Cecil Charles Murison

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2066
Content Description This fonds consists of the papers of Colonel Cecil Charles Murison, physician and surgeon in the Indian Medical Service. It contains: Certificates earned when he was studying in Edinburgh and in Liverpool, and in the Indian Military Service (1891-1930); Published medical articles by Col. Murison and some related correspondence (1901-1926); Small portrait photograph...
Dates: 1891-1942
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Duncan Forrester (b. 1933)

 Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 48
Scope and Contents The collection consists of reports, articles, press cuttings, pamphlets and other papers collected by Forrester relating to India and in particular to Indian politics and religion. Some of the material includes correspondence or drafts of papers to be published by Forrester. The material dates from 1950s-1970s, mainly from the 1960s and early-mid 1970s. Topics covered include: general elections; India emergency (1975); political parties; central government, administration and constitution;...
Dates: 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Ernest Forrester-Paton (1891-1970)

 Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 25
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of papers, reports and other material relating to the arrest of Forrester Paton in 1932; pamphlets, articles and printed items about Forrester Paton, Jesudason and the Ashram (1920s-1980s); letters to Forrester Paton's family before and after his death (1969-1992); and photographs of Forrester Paton, Jesudason and the Ashram (from c 1915).

Dates: [ca. 1915]-1992
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of George McGlashan Kerr (1874-1950) and Isabel Kerr (1875-1932)

 Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 5
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of: correspondence, mainly letters from Kerr and others at the leprosy hospital to Joseph Ross and his wife giving information about their work in India (c 1927-1944); autobiographical notes on Kerr's childhood, decision to become a missionary and early years in India; pamphlets and printed items, referring to the hospital and medical work and with obituaries of Isabel Kerr (1911-1956); and photographs of the Kerr family and Dichpali (3 items, c 1920s).

Dates: 1911-1956
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of James Kellock (1889-1968)

 Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 31
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of several files relating to the United Church of Northern India and Kellock's involvement in the extension and promotion of church union including committee papers and reports, correspondence, published articles and journals, material relating to Kellock's Break Through for Church Union, and material on the debate over Anglican and Presbyterian union in Scotland.

Dates: 1924-1969
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of James Russell Macphail (1901-1968)

 Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 43
Scope and Contents The collection consists of: draft manuscripts of King and Teacher, A Practical Guide to the Reading of the Bible, The Lord's Prayer, The Lord's Supper and The Benediction; other articles, addresses and broadcasts by Macphail; and issues of ...
Dates: [ca. 1963-1969]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Sir Alexander Christison (1828-1918), 1828-1941

 Sub-Fonds — Box CLX-A-342
Identifier: Coll-1817/5
Scope and Contents These papers contain: Manuscript notes for autobiography (x4 notebooks, quarto and foolscap) Transcript of old account books, journals, etc. covering period 1828-1904 Rough notes, 1851-1900 Copies of letters home, 1853 Two maps of North-west Provinces and Oudh. Drawn by A.C, 1906 (tracing paper) Typed copy of account of...
Dates: 1828-1941
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of the Christison Family

Pata scroll illustrating the Indian career of the botanist William Roxburgh

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1851
Scope and Contents A traditional, cloth-based scroll painting, illustrating the life of botanist William Roxburgh, created by Gurupada Chitrakar in 2010 in West Bengal. It is a water-based paint on paper, mounted on cotton. Created using paint made with vegetable dyes, these scrolls are made by sewing together individual panels of paper. Fabric, often from old saris, is glued to the back to strengthen the scroll.Painted scrolls such as this, known as patas, are used...
Dates: 2010
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Patrick Geddes in India, 1869-1924

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1167/G
Scope and Contents In 1914 Patrick Geddes was invited by Lord Pentland, a friend and patron, who was by then the Governor of the Madras Presidency, to tour Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition in India. The overall aim was for Geddes to develop the study and practice of the city survey and to advise on the vast problems of social and civic improvement apparent at that time. Geddes travelled to India in the autumn of 1914. He is undestood to have completed around 50 city surveys during his 10 years in...
Dates: 1869-1924
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection