Notes and intelligence of Mountstuart Elphinstone regarding the Peshawar and Trimbuckjee in the lead up to the Third Maratha war

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  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 59 Mss Eur F88/60
  • Alternative Id.
      (ark) ark:/81055/vdc_100000001006.0x00032f
  • Dates of Creation
      c 1815-c 1817
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      1 box (5 files in all - 1 notebook and 3 scrap books) 344 folios

Scope and Content

Contains Mountstuart Elphinstone's notes on the Peshawar and Trimbukjee before the war with the Peshawar (the Battle of Kirkee and the Third Maratha War). Includes correspondence with Sir Thomas Munro, Captain Robert Close and Francis Warden; notes on the Nizam family; a memorandum written by Richard Strachey on the general crisis in India in March 1816; and papers on the establishment and collection of intelligence regarding the Peshawar and Trimbuckjee and the British defence against their troops. Also includes Elphinstone's notebook and three scrapbooks of intelligence. Folios 50, 54, 56, 60, 75, 100, 200-250, 317 and the rest after Folio 344 are blank

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