Author: National Archives of India
Title: Descriptive List of Secret Department Records. Volume IX. 1791-1795
Description: [New Delhi], National Archives of India, 1974. orig.wrappers. 29x20cm, (2),206 pp.. Rubbed. Cover creased & stained. Just Good. ¶ Thwe documents listed in the present volume relate primarily to the diplomatic and military affairs during roughly the last three years of the Governor-Generalship of Lord Cornwallis and the first two years of that of Sir John Shore. The major events discussed in the correspondence are: Cornwallis's assumption of personal command of the operations against Mysore; outbreak of war between France and England and the Company's consequent capture of the French possessions in India, preparations for a naval expedition against the French islands of Mauritius and Bourbon, occupation of the Dutch settlements in India, Sri Lanka and the East Indies, and illicit trade carried on by British subjects" - from the preface.

Keywords: Indian Historiography, British Colonialism, Lord Cornwallis, Easy India Company, Great Britain, India South Asia, Colonial History, Archive Archival,