Lot 20
India
Collection of printed or typescript documents and memoranda, 1910s-1930s
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
approx. 25 items in total, unless otherwise stated all foolscap, printed, and with caption-titles only, either stapled, pinned, secured with a paperclip, or unbound, many relating to the Government of India Act of 1935 and accession to the Narendra Mandal (Chamber of Princes), items include:
Memorandum on Sikh Representation [typed slip-caption tipped to head of first leaf], Lahore: Model Electric Press, c.1935, 6 [2] pp., first leaf chipped at corner not affecting text;
Government Gazette Extraordinary, Punjab and its Dependencies, Lahore, 8th November 1919 … Message from His Majesty the King-Emperor, Lahore: Government Press, 1919, single leaf, wood-engraved royal arms to head, repair affecting two words;
Confidential (Proof.). Proceedings of the Conference of Ruling Princes and Chiefs. Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, 1919. 32 pp.;
Proclamation [banning a seditious Gurmukhi pamphlet titled ‘India Akhara’], Faridkot: Balbir Press, 1922, single leaf, wood-engraved crest to head;
5 memoranda sent to the Dewan of Wankaner State, each with signed covering letter: i) Confidential: Some Points for Mr. Lothian. Sections of the Government of India Act, Baripada: Mayurbhanj State Press, c.1937, 10 ff.; ii) Notes of Discussions held at the Committee Room of the Council House, Calcutta, Monday 28th December [1936], carbon typescript, 36 ff., with related memoranda attached and covering letter from the Mayurbanj State Secretaratiat; iii) Hereditary and Extra-Territorial rights, Provisional List, c.1937, carbon typescript, 7 ff., with covering letter from the Huzur Office, Lunawada State; iv) Notes of Discussions with the Lunawada Darbar held at Bombay on the 15th December 1936, carbon typescript, 13 ff., with covering letter from the Huzur Office, Lunawada State; v) Rough List of Extra-Territorial Rights and Privileges [and:] Notes of Discussions held with the Radhanpur Darbar on the 18th and 19th November 1936, at the Residency, Rajkot, [2] and 28, 2 pp., covering letter from the Dewan of Radhanpur State;
[Title in Urdu:] Hiz Iksilinsi Huzur Vaisray bahadur ki taqrir [i.e. A Speech of His Excellency the Viceroy], 4th September 1918, in Urdu, lithographed, 13 pp.;
Agenda for the War Conference, Bombay: Government Central Press, c.1914, 7, 3 pp., chiefly covering recruitment;
Copy of a Letter dated the 1st October 1937, from His Highness the Maharaj Rana Bahadur of Dholpur to the Political Agent Eastern Rajputana States, Bharatpur, [no place, no publisher], 4 ff., compliments slip of the Maharaj Rana of Dholpur pinned to corner;
Appeal made by Rai Bahadur Pandit Bishwambhar Nath Sahib … on behalf of His Highness the Maharao Sahib Bahadur, Kotah, in the Public Meeting held at the Crosthwaite Institute on the 22nd February, 1935, [probably Kota], 1935, 2 copies, 3 pp., on preparations for the silver jubilee of George V;
The Government of India Act and the Indian States, Indore: Co-operative Printing Press, c.1935, 4to, 18 pp.;
Notes of Discussion held at the Agency House, Nowgong … 15th January 1937, with the Following States of the Bundelkhand Agency, approx. 85 ff., carbon typescript.
And approx. 12 others including a memorandum on the development of air surveys in India, 1927, memoranda of governmental meetings, and similar (approx. 25)