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 47.

1. Folder containing :-
   • ‘ Europe After the War’, by Spear
   • ‘The Government of The United States – What it is and how it works’
   • ‘The New Order’
   • ‘What the Lease and Lend Act Means’
   • ‘Two Years of War’, by Spear
   • ‘The Battle of the Atlantic’
   • Letters etc.
   • ‘History of Chamba State in Mughal and Sikh Times’ by H. Goetz, Baroda
   • Paper – ‘India After Independence’ comprising:-
     • Introduction
     • Crisis and the Constitution
     • Nehru’s India – The Decline
     • Post Nehru India – Lal Bahadur Shastri
     • Post Nehru – Indira Gandhi
   • Paper – ‘Ananda: The Concept of Bliss in the Upanisads’
2. Folder containing:-
   • ‘Some Factors in Indian History’
     • I ‘General’
     • II ‘The Mughal Empire’ [2 typed copies and 1 mss copy]
     • III ‘The British’
     • IV ‘The Indian National Congress’
   • ‘The Mughal Mansabdari System’ [2 copies]
   • [Some thoughts on] Mughal Architecture
3. Folder containing :-
   • Notes, one mss and two corrected tss copies of “Mahatma Gandhi”, 1969.
4. Folder containing :-
   • Notes and two tss copies of “Interpretations of Modern Indian History”
   • Notes and tss copy of “The British in South Asia, to 1880”
   • Notes and tss copy of “Nationalism in South Asia”
   • Notes, tss copy and galley proof of “Pakistan, Islam and the West”
   • Tss copy of “Western Historical Writing in the Era of the Nationalist Movements”
   • Tss copy of “The Meaning of Indian History”