Archive / Papers / Spear Papers: Box 42

Description

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.

The contents of this box were previously listed as Box 43.

Expanding folder, W.B. [Bentinck] – State of India, mainly social, under headings such as:-

  • Missionaries and Religion
  • suttee
  • Infanticide
  • Thugs
  • Slavery
  • Corruption
  • Anglo-Indians
  • Press
  • Slaves
  • Steam and Navigation
  • Journals