Spear

Spear Papers: Box 72

Bequeathed by Dr (Thomas George) Percival Spear. Lecturer, St Stephen’s College, Delhi 1924-40; various posts in Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India 1940-45; Bursar, Selwyn College, Cambridge 1945-70; Lecturer in History, Cambridge University 1963-69.

This box was previously listed as Box 74.

Expanding file of miscellaneous research notes, cuttings, correspondence etc. labelled ‘W. B.[entinck] V’ and ‘India, 1818-35’ under headings such as:-
- British Capital in India
- Agency Houses
- Salt
- Tea
- Opium
- Indigo
- Cotton
- Trade and Industry
- Transit Duties
- Capital
- Economic History
Expanding file of miscellaneous research notes, cuttings, correspondence etc. labelled ‘W. B.[entinck] VIII’ and ‘PP, Admin’ under headings such as:-
- Parliament Proceedings
- Parliamentary Papers
- P.P. evidence
- Civil Servants
- East India Co.
- Finance
- Economies
- Army
- Batta
- Post and Roads
- Ecclesiastical

Spear Papers: Box 71

This box was previously listed as Box 73

Expanding file of miscellaneous research notes, cuttings, correspondence etc. concerning W. Bentinck under headings such as:-
- Mutual Opinions
- Indianisation
- Indian Culture
- Ellenborough
- Beef Eating Clubs
- The Taj
- Populations
- Bishops College

Spear Papers: Box 70

This box was previously listed as Box 70.

3 folders of copies of correspondence, memoranda, etc. to and from Lord William Bentinck, 1832

Spear Papers: Box 69

This box was previously listed as Box 71.

Folder containing correspondence with Ian Stephens
Folder of miscellaneous press cuttings and letters
Folder containing Articles of Association of The Cambridge Preservation Society and the 44th, 45/6th, 47th annual reports of same
Folder containing:-
- 2 copies of ‘The British and The Indian State to 1830’
- “Introduction”
- Correspondence and additions/variations on the Indian State

Spear Papers: Box 68

This box was previously listed as Box 70.

Folder containing correspondence with I.H. Qureshi
Folder containing report on ‘The History of Christianity in India’ by S.C. Neill and associated correspondence
Folder containing miscellaneous letters, (several to and from K.B. Lall), personal references, thesis reports etc.
Folder containing a paper ‘Ghalib’s Delhi’, associated correspondence, and a paper by Ralph Russell – ‘Ghalib, a Self Portrait’
Folder containing letters, press cuttings etc. concerning the division of the India Office Library and of the return of its contents to India, Pakistan
Folder containing correspondence concerning Ballhatchet – Cambridge reprints

Spear Papers: Box 67

This box was previously listed as Box 69.

Folder containing correspondence with and about Waheed Ahmad
Folder containing correspondence and examiner’s repots on A.C. Banerjee and P.K.Chattarji
Folder containing correspondence with J. Roselli
Folder containing letters to and from Ashoka Sen
Folder containing a variety of letters and press cuttings
Folder containing correspondence with Oxford University Press; ‘H.U.L.: India, Pakistan and the West’
Folder containing correspondence with Willie Rajpal
Folder containing correspondence about Choudhri Rahmat Ali
Folder containing correspondence with Professor V.N. Datta.

Spear Papers: Box 66

This box was previously listed as Box 68.

Expanding file containing research notes on various subjects under headings such as:-
- Medicine
- Bombay
- Corruption
- Late Calcutta and Madras
- The Company
- Food
- Early Madras
- Population
- Surat
- Smoking
- Books

Spear Papers: Box 65

This box was previously listed as Box 67.

Folder containing:-
- 2 copies of a paper ‘Mughal India’
- paper ‘The Place of the Mughals in India History’
- transcript of ‘Pakistan’ for the BBC’s “The World Today”, broadcast 5th September, 1963
- paper ‘India, 1500-1525’
- transcript of ‘President Ayub Khan’ for “Portraits of Our Time”, 23rd August, 1964
- WS Commentary: ‘India/Pakistan Dispute’, Spear, 3rd November 1965
- transcript of ‘Problems Facing India’ for “The World Today”, 8th March, 1966
- transcript of ‘The Soviet Union and Southern Asia’ for “The World Today”, 31st December, 1965
- transcript of ‘Pakistan Today’ for “The World Today”, 25th October, 1965
- 2 copies of paper ‘Holt Mackenzie – Forgotten Man of Bengal’
Folder containing:-
- parts of 2 SOAS Seminar papers
- Soas seminar paper, 20.7.67
- 3 copies of a paper ‘A Third Force in India, 1920-47 – A Study in Political Analysis’
- paper ‘Nehru’ [Pundit Jawarharlal]
Note book containing early diary and notes
‘Contributions to Indian Sociology – New Series’, no.VI Dec.1972
‘The Rise of Modern China’, Victor Purcell
Reprint ‘Inayat Jang Collection – A Preliminary Survey’ A.I. Tirmizi

Spear Papers: Box 64

This box was previously listed as Box 66.

Folder containing:-
- Paper ‘The Emergency, 1975’, Spear
- ‘India Weekly’, October 27, 1977
- Paper ‘The Place of the Mughals in Indian History’
- 2 copies of ‘War Memories in India 1939-45’
- Paper ‘India After Independence’
Folder containing:-
- Paper ‘Evelyn Ashdown’s Shipwreck, 1943’
- 2 copies of ‘The Early Days of Bishop’s College, Calcutta’
- 6 reprints of ‘Hindu and Muslim India’
- Reprint of ‘The Mughals and the British’
- Correspondence and copy of ‘The End of the Mogols’
- ‘Chapter IX – The Indian Empire’
- Paper ‘Patterns of British Leadership in British India – Theme With Variations'(2 copies)
- Manuscript , untitled, beginning “The study of the decline of empire may be regarded as an essay in morbid political pathology ………”
- Reprint ‘Lord Macartney in Batavia, March 1793’
Folder containing 7 typed chapters of memoirs – part 2 (Margaret Spear’s half) of “India Remembered” by Spear and Spear: in SAS Lib. (54):8-94 S. Plus chapter 1 of same book, ‘First Impressions’ (Percival Spear’s), and 2 copies of ‘War Memories in India’ [possibly an unused chapter by Margaret – very similar to Percival’s chapter 6, ‘The World War’]
Folder containing:
- Preface to the Second Edition of “India, A Modern History”
- corrected versions of chapters XL and XLI
- 3 copies of ‘The Legacy of India – The Mughals and the British’.

Spear Papers: Box 63

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‘The Historical Journal’ vol. 14, 3, Sept.1971
‘Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland’ no.1, 1978
‘Modern Asian Studies’; Oct. 1975, April 1978, Oct.1978
‘The Calcutta Historical Journal’; Jan-June and July-Dec 1979, Jan-June and July-Dec 1980
‘Social Work Programme, 1968’, University of Peshawar
Reprint – ‘Sir George Oxinden and Bombay, 1662-1669’ by G.Z. Refai
‘The Journal of the English Literary Club’, Session 1983-84
‘La Civilisation Indienne et Nous’, Louis Dumont
‘Pacific Affairs’, vol.49, no.1, Spring 1976