Author: National Archives of India
Title: Descriptive List of Secret Department Records. Volume III. 1781-1782
Description: [New Delhi], National Archives of India, [1972]. orig.wrappers. 28x20cm, (2),230 pp. Stencilled [mimeographed].. Rubbed. Good. ¶ The present volume covers the years 1781-82 and comprises correspondence of the Company's authorities at Fort William with the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, with their agents at the Courts of the Nawab Vazir of Oudh and the Nizam, and with the various Indian chiefs. There is a detailed coverage of important subjects like the Second Mysore War, dealings with the Marathas in Central and Western India, Oudh affairs, insurrection of Raja Chait Singh, etc. Incidents such as the Anglio-French naval skirmishes in the Bay of Bengal, destruction of Haidar Ali's fleet by E. Hughes, occupation of the Dutch settlements in India by the Company in consequence of the rupture between Great Britain and Holland, taking over of the Guntur Sarkar by the Nizam, etc, also figure in the correspondence" - from preface.

Keywords: Indian Historiography, British Colonialism, Colonial History, East India Company, South Asia, Great Britain, Archives, Archival,