Diary while resident in Hyderabad. 26 July 1912: intrigue, conspiracy, and forgery among State officials; unravelling case July-September; reorganization proposals of Cantonment works; after the case is over takes the Nizam to Simla; Viceroy there. 1913: Sher Ali, one of the forgers returns; arrested. March 1914: on leave; voyage home via Europe overland, staying in Italy some time. Ends 6 October 1914 on way back to India.
The diary is detailed, and mainly about conspiracies and intrigues in the Court and government of Hyderabad; there is a detailed exposition of the parties involved, the individual characters and relationship between the Political Agent and the State.
Pinhey, A.F. Papers: Box 5
Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Fleetwood Pinhey
Given by Mr J.L.G. Pinhey
‘History of Mewar’. By Lieutenant-Colonel A.F. Pinhey. Calcutta, Superintendent, Government Printing, India, 909 [i.e. 1909]. Printed. Photocopy.
Memorandum regarding the present relations between the Maharana [of Mewar] and his Sardars.’ Printed.
‘Appendix A. Genealogical Tree of Gehlotes and Sisodias’. [n.d.] Printed.
‘Appendix K. List of some Objects of Antiquarian Interest in Mewar State’. [Printed January, 1909.] 9 copies.
Note on the Bhumat Chiefs’. Printed about 1902.
‘Some notes on the Hyderabad Residency. Collected from Original Records in the Residency Office’. [n.d.] Printed.
‘Notes on Mewar History from Tod’s Rajasthan’. [n.d.] Typescript and manuscript.
‘Notes on the Genealogy of the Mewar Family from Gunil to Rana Namir’. [n.d.] Typescript. Photocopy.
File of Miscellaneous demi-official and personal correspondence and ephemera. Includes papers on Daly College; future of Imperial Service Troops; a proposed Press Act for India; a new police appointment in Rajputana; Gwalior Residence Villages. 1908.
Folder of miscellaneous letters from serving officers to Sir Alexander and Lady Pinhey. 1914-15.
Diary of Sir A. Pinhey. 6 April – 31 May 1912. 98ff.
Pinhey, A.F. Papers: Box 4
Lt. Col. Sir Alexander Fleetwood Pinhey, K.C.S.I., C.I.E.
Given by Lt. Col. L.A.G. Pinhey
Personal and mainly official diary 11 August 1897 – April 1900. Satna and Rewa. Usual office routine, inspections, tours etc., relations with rajas and diwans; visit of MahaRao of Rewa to Calcutta and investiture by Viceroy; appears before Famine Committee (President Sir John Lyall) in Jubbulpore 18 March 1898; leave; on 11 January 1899 proposal by Bengal Trading Company to cut salary; railway proposals for Rewa. Diary ends 1 March 1899, then starts again as office diary from 1 October 1899. Beginning of famine; rise of prices; goes on tour; attitude of rajas; on tour gives grain prices, and records state of crops in villages; relief measures given in detail, including notes of conversations with Famine Relief officials; appointed Resident of Mewar (Udaipur); arrives April 1900; outline of daily work, tours, inspections etc.; notes of discussions with British and native officials; second famine averted; tour as Resident in Mewar November 1900 – March 1901; some statistics as well as careful record of each place visited. Ends April 1900.
Official diary, beginning 29 September 1901. Hot weather tour, 18 April – 10 May 1903. Possibility of famine; state of crops; condition in the State, province by province; famine; relief.
Tour. 23-27 November 1903. Tries persuading Maharaja to send sons to Mayo. On tour, visits temples at Nagda (Negendra) and makes notes of his list of archaeological remains at Mewar; visits Bappa’s tomb.
Tour 23 March – 29 May 1904. From Partabgarh where Pinhey arranges about conversion of the coinage scheme and also budget; reform of customs department, provisional reform of police department school organization; destruction of wood by Bhils; inspects Banswara – increasing demand for education; poor state of jail and working quarters.
Diary for 1905. 20 January – 13 May 1905, plague in Udaipur; measures against it; long report on Jaisamand; record of Maharaja’s attitude to reports on Banswara etc.
Cold weather tour 1905-06. Famine again; depopulation of areas owing to former famines, and result is that only better class left who will not go on relief works; relief measures; assessment of famine; general touring – at Sagwara, Dungarpur State, ‘struck by the continual improvement that goes on in this state’; new school at Dingapur; prison improvements.
Second tour 10-21 February 1906. Visits Jain ruins at Majauri and Kakir; temple at Nadima and Dhikara etc.; Ranpura; Mahadev temples at Majera.
Tour in famine tracts of Mewar 1-29 April 1906. Mandal (Udaipur), examines working-parties, wages and conditions; Par; tank work begun in 1899; Ajmer for Famine Conference, meet Viceroy; Wakefield’s scheme of relief work explained; measures of relief and the Rajas’ attitudes and cooperation; describes various stupas etc. near Chitor.
Pinhey, A.F. Papers: Box 3
Lt. Col. Sir Alexander Fleetwood Pinhey, K.C.S.I., C.I.E.
Given by Lt. Col. L.A.G. Pinhey
Diaries and tour notes of Lt. Col. A.F. Pinhey, 1890-96:
Diary, 1 July 1890 – 3 March 1891. Leave begins from Neemuch; Poona; Assam; Gwalior; receives charge of Moghia office 1 October 1890; back at Banswara in 1 Partabgarh; gets engaged, and married in February 1891; goes on tour again with wife. Entries much briefer, ends 3 March 1891.
Diary, 8 November 1892 – 14 January 1893. Superintendent’s notes, cold weather tour:
Still Mewar district; boundary disputes and detailed record of complaints, assessments and government of the area; relations with the chiefs; analysis of different areas – shareholders, villages, finances etc. It is more detailed and knowledgeable than before.
Tour 15 November 1893-? 1894. One page only.
Tour 3 November 1896-21 March 1897. Famine; tour of inspection, assessment, and measures taken; relief work, refugees; goes to Allahabad for conference on famine; organizing the local chiefs into doing relief work; description of the famine, numbers, attempts at relief, attitude of zemindars; goes to Calcutta in February to consult about Rewa and sees Viceroy; returns.
Personal diary 1894. Very scrappy; brief accounts of tours, inspections.
Personal diary 1895. Banswara; gets Rewa for six months in April 1895; brief accounts of daily happenings up to July/August; peters out.
Personal and official diary 1896. Satna, Rewa State, C.P. Attitude and policy towards the MahaRao; famine relief (see political diary) – methods of dealing with and background to, and Maharao’s contribution to. Famine report finished 16 June 1896. Daily work briefly noted and lists subjects of conversation with Indian officials; ballooning, 13 August; promoted to 3rd Class Political Agent; Ends 26 August 1896.
Pinhey, A.F. Papers: Box 2
Lt. Col. Sir Alexander Fleetwood Pinhey, K.C.S.I., C.I.E.
Given by Lt. Col. L.A.G. Pinhey
Letter book, beginning 3 May 1886, and containing the original letters together with the copy of his reply. About problems in the district – Bhils; how to execute a man if not by hanging; difficulties in collecting revenue; new system of collection; MahaRawal of Banswara; correspondence with the Resident; dacoity; arrangements for Golden Jubilee celebrations – postponement; durbars and revenue. The correspondence continues until 27 December 1888 when he is asking for relief for the Bhil country as there is danger of drought. There are one or two letters after this up to April 1889 from other people, but no entry from Pinhey until 5 May 1889 when he has temporarily taken over Maghia district as well, stationed at Neemuch. The whole of this volume brings out the relationship between the Agent and the MahaRawal. Last entry 19 November 1889.
Diary, beginning 11 April 1888. First half of diary concerned with shoots, leave, letters, purely personal; on 29 October a long recorded conversation between Pinhey and the MahaRawal about the appointment of the Order p.Vakul and other matters; another one on 30 October; analysis of the situation by Pinhey; effects of drought on the Bhils. The latter half of the diary is concerned with district matters; Durbars; confiscation; dealing with lack of crops, etc.; but mainly the conflict of personalities and appointments to posts. Last entry 28 November 1888.
Diary continued 30 November 1888. It continues with the detailed record of Pinhey’s relationship with the MahaRawal and the Kaunder in the running of the State; long description of boundary disputes, and that of Mewar v. Partabgarh described in full 30 April 1889; tribute concessions from Government 13 July; state finances; records of conversation with the Kaunder (6 November and on) about improvements not carried out; character of Kaunder; Panchayat work; Border Courts; assessment of British officers’ work in these Courts; tours; visits Baroli temples. Ends 21 December 1889.
Diary, beginning 22 December 1889 – 1 July 1890. Descriptions of life in camps, and the country, and some history; on 10 and 19 January mentions attempt to colonize Moghias; meets a number of local Rajas and records his conversations with them; describes his camps, the ruins, palaces, his work, reading and shooting; Maharao of Partabgarh dies – summary of his character and reign – successor institutes a State Council 27 February-1 March; relations with new Maharao; finances; camps; leave at Udaipur; going to Bombay on 3 months leave. Ends 1 July.
Pinhey, A.F. Papers: Box 1
Lt. Col. Sir Alexander Fleetwood Pinhey, K.C.S.I., C.I.E.
Given by Lt. Col. L.A.G. Pinhey
Diaries of Lt. Col. Sir Alexander Fleetwood Pinhey:
1883. With King’s Liverpool Regiment; daily life in regiment; very brief.
1885. With 33rd Cavalry – very similar to above.
1885-86, October onwards. Much more detailed: opening of Mayo College; transferred to political service in Rajputana; letters, memos., etc., are copied into this diary; detailed record of tours and of various cases he tries, also of the characters of the Indians he encounters, and the complexity of relationships. Volume ends 21 October 1886.
23 October 1886-8 April 1887. This is very much the same, perhaps even in more detail: records of talks with various people, particularly Indians; details of what he reads and his garden.
