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India

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 243 Collections and/or Records:

Pan Women, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3295
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of women from the Pan tribe in [India] in the early 20th century.

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

Papers and correspondence of John Cunningham

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-30
Scope and Contents The papers include full documentation (case histories, experimental notes and data) of Cunningham's medical researches in India, and in particular of his prolonged and exhaustive work on the bacteriology and immunology of relapsing fever, and the major programme on the treatment of rabies which he instituted on his appointment as Director of the Pasteur Institute, Kasauli, (where over 8,000 cases a year were treated). There are also records of the work on vaccine lymph carried out at the...
Dates: 1905-1968
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Andrew Crawford Hume

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1096
Scope and Contents

The collection contains:


  1. 1 x degree certificate in the name of Andrew Crawford Hume
  2. 4 x degree/certificates in the name of Thomas Hume
  3. 1 tool-bound volume containingJail hygiene in India, published in Calcutta, 1881, andVaso-motor diseases in India, 1879, which was owned by A. Hume aboard 'HMS Marathon', Bombay, Sept. 1891
Dates: 1873-1927
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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