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.

This box was previously listed as Box 74.

1. 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
2. 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