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Donated by Dr J.S. Davis

Papers of Dr Rajnarayan (Raj) S. Chandavarkar, Trinity College, Cambridge. Faculty of History, Cambridge and Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies, 2001-2006. Papers relating to teaching in Cambridge and to research on mills, labour activism and police in Bombay [Mumbai], 1920s and 1930s.

Papers from the Textile Labour Inquiry Committee looking into the mills, with a focus on Sholapur Mill, from the late 1930s.

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Folder 1 – 

• Textile Labour Inquiry Committee 1939 File No. 51.
• Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Bombay 1937-1938. File no. 43.
• Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, File 44-B vol VII.
• Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Home Department, Special Branch 1939 file no. 543(45)
• Note on the Bombay Maternity Benefit Act and its working, Textile Committee, 1937-40 File No.12.
• Air Conditioning in Textile Mills. Historical Note, Chief Inspector of Factories, TLIC File 12.
• City of Bombay Improvement Trust, Minutes and Proceedings of the meeting of the board of trustees, General department 1905, Vol No, 25, Compilation No. 833.
• List of cotton textile mills inflicting fines and making disbursement from Fines fund. Chief Inspector of Factories, Bombay to Sec TLIC, 17^th August 1939, TLIC File 12.

Folder 2 – 

• Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Oral Evidence (Main Inquiry) Representative from the mills in Sholapur, File 76-A of 1938-40. (MSA).
• Photocopy of book, N.G. Jog, (ed.) Narottam Morajee: Architect of Modern Shipping Shipping (Bombay 1977).

Folder 3 – 

• Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, A complete set of the oral evidence taken by the committee for the interim inquiry (Part 1), File 42 of 1937-38. Correspondence with the chief Inspector of Factories, Bombay, (Part 2), File 12 of 1937-40. (MSA).

Folder 4 – 

• Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Oral Evidence (Main Inquiry) Representative workers, Sholapur, File 75-A of 1938-40. (MSA)
• Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Oral Evidence (Main Inquiry) Representative workers Sholapur, File 75-C of 1938-40. (MSA)
• Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Statement submitted by committee by bodies and persons on questions arising on the oral evidence, File 50-A of 1939-1940. (MSA)
• Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Statement submitted by committee by bodies and persons on questions arising on the oral evidence, File 50-B of 1939-40. (MSA)
• Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Correspondence with criminal tribes settlement in Sholapur, 1939, File 16 of 1939. (MSA)
• Proceedings of the Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Oral Evidence (Main Inquiry) Standardisation Scheme, Wednesday 19^th July 1939, File 80C of 1938-40. (MSA)
• Centenary of the textile industry of the India 1854-1954, The Indian Textile Journal, September 92 Bombay, (BMA).

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