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1842182100London W. H. Allen & co. 1842. Third Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original plain cloth. Professionally re-cased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Scans etc. on request.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 773 pages; Related names: East India Company. Great Britain. Laws statutes etc. Description: xiv 773 p. 28 x 23 cm. London, W. H. Allen & co. hardcover
1999Star-9783540653691Springer 1999. Hardcover. New. Springer hardcover
1999Star-9783540653691Springer 1999. Hardcover. New. Springer hardcover
191133748London: Adam and Charles Black 1911. First Edition. With 72 highly impressive tissue captioned colour plates by Major Lovett and 19 smaller line drawings throughout the text. Large 8vo handsomely bound in full cordovan calf the spine with raised bands separating the compartments which are decorated with gilt filleted panels black morocco lettering label gilt the upper cover with an eagle in gilt at the center all edges marbled. xiv 224 pp. A very well preserved and handsome copy the text-block clean and well preserved and with fine plates the binding handsome with slight mellowing to the spine panel and with the gilt decorations all still very bright. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SUPERB WORK ON THE INDIAN REGIMENTS. The author and artist have joined forces to create here a fine review of the armies fielded by the Empire.the history of their battles and their administration. The book is a costume designer's dream-come-true as the very impressive colourplates bring vividly to the life the men the many regimental uniforms and accouterments and the scene of Imperial India. This is also an invaluable work for anyone interested in the colonial armies and military histories at the height of the English Age of Empire.<br> Major General Sir George Fletcher Macmunn 1869-1952 KCB KCSI DSO British General scholar military historian and writer was also one of the founders of the Kipling Society. Major Alfred Crowdy Lovett 1862-1919 was of the Gloucestershire Regiment. The watercolours by Lovett illustrate the full dress and field service dress uniforms of the Indian Army. Adam and Charles Black hardcover
24731One item from ‘Allen’s Indian Mail’ 28 March 1887. Three items marked as from the periodical ‘India’ 1902 1903 and 1906. Another ‘Reprinted from “INDIA†August 16 1901.’. Five galley-proofs of articles written during the high-point of the Raj by leading Victorian journalist in India W. Martin Wood editor of the Times of India founder and editor of the Bombay Review. Ephemeral items creased and worn but with text clear and entire. ONE: Headed ‘ALLEN’S INDIAN MAIL / THE LATE MR. EDWARD BROOME C.E. / Mr. M. Martin Wood writes to us as follows: -’. Sixty-two lines in small print follow beginning: ‘Some little time back your “Domestic Occurrences†contained the name of Mr. Edward Broome Civil Engineer as having died at Southport something under 60 years of age. It struck me then that a note of Mr. Broome’s quiet work in India ought to be made’. TWO: Annotated at head by Wood ‘India Sep 16th. 1902’. Sixty-eight lines of small print. Three sections concerning drought ‘in Gujerat and the Deccan’. The first begins: ‘An esteemed correspondent writes: Telegrams from India during the last few weeks have told us very little about the suspension and in certain districts what almost threatens failure of the later monsoon rains.’ The second starts: ‘But this passive creed is nto that of their masters from the West’. The third: ‘Meantime what has become of the Scott-Moncrieff comprehensive Water-Supply and Irrigation Report’ THREE: Headed ‘INDIA’S CHRONIC DEFICIT. / FROM AN ANGLO-INDIAN CORRESPONDENT. Annotated by Wood at head: ‘From India Feb. 13th. 03’. Beginning ‘Those few of our official financiers at Simla or in the palace overlooking St. James’s Park who are at all sensitive to Press criticism must have felt happy when in the last Financial Statement they recorded the line - “the entry under Exchange has become of minor importance.â€â€™ Ninety-three lines of text. FOUR: Headed ‘INDIA’S SEABORNE TRADE: / BALANCED ONLY BY DEADWEIGHTS.’ Annotated at head by Wood: ‘From India Jan 15. 06’. Begins: ‘Only within the last fortnight have come to hand detailed returns of India’s trade with the outside world during the first six months of its current financial year - April 1 to September 30.’ Eighty-one lines in small print. FIVE: Headed ‘Reprinted from “INDIA†August 16 1901. / INDIAN LOANS GUARANTEE. / AN EMERGENT ILLUSTRATION. / BY AN ANGLO-INDIAN.’ Beginning ‘The miscarriage of the proposed Indian sterling loan of £3000000 last month must have recalled attention to the often pressed always postponed demand for a British Treasury guarantee in support of the public debt of India.’ Sixty-five lines of small print. One item from ‘Allen’s Indian Mail’, [28 March 1887]. Three items marked as from the periodical ‘India’, [1902], 1903 unknown
24732One item from ‘Allen’s Indian Mail’ 28 March 1887. The other ‘Reprinted from “INDIA†August 16 1901.’. Two galley-proofs of articles by leading Victorian journalist in India W. Martin Wood editor of the Times of India founder and editor of the Bombay Review. Ephemeral items creased and worn but with text clear and entire. ONE: Headed ‘ALLEN’S INDIAN MAIL / THE LATE MR. EDWARD BROOME C.E. / Mr. M. Martin Wood writes to us as follows: -’. Sixty-two lines in small print follow beginning: ‘Some little time back your “Domestic Occurrences†contained the name of Mr. Edward Broome Civil Engineer as having died at Southport something under 60 years of age. It struck me then that a note of Mr. Broome’s quiet work in India ought to be made’. TWO: Annotated at head by Wood ‘India Sep 16th. 1902’. Sixty-eight lines of small print. Three sections concerning drought ‘in Gujerat and the Deccan’. The first begins: ‘An esteemed correspondent writes: Telegrams from India during the last few weeks have told us very little about the suspension and in certain districts what almost threatens failure of the later monsoon rains.’ The second starts: ‘But this passive creed is nto that of their masters from the West’. The third: ‘Meantime what has become of the Scott-Moncrieff comprehensive Water-Supply and Irrigation Report’ THREE: Headed ‘INDIA’S CHRONIC DEFICIT. / FROM AN ANGLO-INDIAN CORRESPONDENT. Annotated by Wood at head: ‘From India Feb. 13th. 03’. Beginning ‘Those few of our official financiers at Simla or in the palace overlooking St. James’s Park who are at all sensitive to Press criticism must have felt happy when in the last Financial Statement they recorded the line - “the entry under Exchange has become of minor importance.â€â€™ Ninety-three lines of text. FOUR: Headed ‘INDIA’S SEABORNE TRADE: / BALANCED ONLY BY DEADWEIGHTS.’ Annotated at head by Wood: ‘From India Jan 15. 06’. Begins: ‘Only within the last fortnight have come to hand detailed returns of India’s trade with the outside world during the first six months of its current financial year - April 1 to September 30.’ Eighty-one lines in small print. FIVE: Headed ‘Reprinted from “INDIA†August 16 1901. / INDIAN LOANS GUARANTEE. / AN EMERGENT ILLUSTRATION. / BY AN ANGLO-INDIAN.’ Beginning ‘The miscarriage of the proposed Indian sterling loan of £3000000 last month must have recalled attention to the often pressed always postponed demand for a British Treasury guarantee in support of the public debt of India.’ Sixty-five lines of small print. One item from ‘Allen’s Indian Mail’, [28 March 1887]. The other ‘Reprinted from “INDIA,†August 16, 1901.’ unknown
25035One letter from 1914 the other nine from 1915. Each on his letterhead 42 Frederick Street Victoria Chambers Edinburgh. In one of the present letters Hay signs himself as ‘Retired Behar Indigo planter’ and the material provides an knowledgeable commentry on the colonial textiles industry at the beginning of the First World War. Some of the material was printed in the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. The recipient George Kenneth Menzies 1869-1954 was Secretary to the Royal Society of Arts between 1917 and 1935. A total of 21pp 4to. Each bears the stamp of the RSA some with manuscript docketting. Three of the letters appear to be incomplete: those of 4 and 9 January 1915 consists of an unsigned first page only and that of 5 January 1915 is paginated to 7 but lacks p.6. Each of the eight letters with a final page is signed ‘Lewis J. E. Hay.’ The condition of the material is good on lightly aged paper some items with pin holes from the attachment of pages. The first two letters 18 December 1914 and 4 and 9 January 1915 concern ‘Dr. F. Mollvo Perkin’s Lecture’ copies of which Hay requests in order to send them ‘to my friends who are interested in the Indian Indigo industry’. In the second letter he writes: ‘As a Planter I well know that many valuable lectures have been given and discussions have taken place at the Royal Society on Indigo and its Competitors which we planters in India never even heard of though we were vitally interested in the matter!’ He would like to ‘guard against this happening on this occasion’ as there seems to him to be ‘some chance of reviving our Industry provided Dr. F. Molvo Perkin’s most sound advice is taken.’ The incomplete letter of 5 January 1915 six pages of seven is headed ‘Natural Indigo’ and consists of ‘some comments on the generally speaking very accurate description given by the Author of the manufacture of the above dye as practised in Behar’. Topics touched on include ‘the colour of the steeped liquor’ indoxyl ‘the Dutch planters process’ ‘known differences in dyeing strength’ ‘vitamines’ ‘the Chinese method of extracting Indigo’. He ends with a warning of the need to ‘hold the fort against a German monopoly’: ‘our home manufacturers . will assuredly suffer should Germany reach her goal a monopoly of the dye-stuffs of the World’. In another letter of the same date he responds positively to Menzies telegram proposal to ‘publish bulk of your letter in Society of Arts Journal’. Incomplete letter of 9 January 1915 first page only contains comments on ‘Chinese Alkaline Extraction Vat’. A three-page letter of 11 January 1915 is signed ‘Lewis J. E. Hay / Retired Behar Indigo planter.’ It discusses the ‘Alkaline method of Extraction’. In the following four-page letter 14 January 1915 Hay seeks to ‘sum up my conclusions on the existing Behar process and give my suggestions briefly for a possible alternative one’. A two-page letter 18 January 1915 discusses the relative merits of ‘Natural Dye’ and ‘Synthetic’. A postscript reads: ‘It would be helpful if Dr. Perkin Professor Armstrong & other scientists could be induced to give their views for alternative processes. If you thought of publishing my letter of 14th. inst. perhaps Dr. Perkins would very kindly write a note for publication at the same time. / L H.’ The final letter 8 February 1915 concerns a completely different subject being a covering letter for a paper ‘Re Possible Origin of Malignant Diseases’: ‘I don’t know if my Article is suitable for publication but it may prove of interest to investigators engaged in Cancer Research - also the causes of some forms of Insanity.’ One letter from 1914, the other nine from 1915. Each on his letterhead, 42 Frederick Street, Victoria Chambers, Edinburgh. unknown
2660310 November 1855. Document 39 x 25cm part manuscript part-printed folded good condition. Appointment of Beauchamp Colclough Urquhart as a Lieutenant of Infantry "in the Service of the East India Company on the Bengal Establishment". Signed by Lord Canning Governor-General of India later the first Viceroy; George Anson soon to become Commander in Chief in India; J.P. Grant later to become Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal 1859–1862 and as Governor of Jamaica; B. Peacock "credited with authoring the Indian Penal Code." All four feature in Wikipedia. It is counter-signed by R.J.H. Birch Secretary to the Government of India Military Department. Note: "Beauchamp Colclough Urquhart was born in Waterford Ireland. He was the only son of George Urquhart and Bridget Colclough.He fought with the 85th Regiment of Foot which took part in the burning of the White House and Washington in 1814." Wikitree See Image. 10 November 1855 unknown
1817223216London.: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown. 1817. xxvii 565pp 2 publisher's advertisments; contemporary diced morocco the boards with an elaborate double-border blind-stamped and gilt-embossed rubbed at the edges re-backed mounting the original gilt-decorated and lettered backstrip 27 x 22 cms marbled fore edges marbled endpapers the title page rather spotted and stained scant foxing elsewhere with the armorial bookplate of J. E. Saunders Finsbury Square and the neat pencilled inscription of a later owner to the initial blank a good copy. Detailed account of the social cultural and religious practices of India during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Abbé Dubois a French Catholic priest and missionary was stationed in India from 1792-1823 and his manuscript was purchased by the East India Company in 1807 publishing this English translation in 1817. . Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. hardcover
1999x-0415117674Routledge 1999. Hardcover. New. revised edition. 499 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. Routledge hardcover
1884223672London.: Macmillan & Co. First Edition. 1884. Two volumes 8 full -page illustrations including 4 chromolithograph plates two photographic illustrations tipped in and two black and white steel engravings xxxiii 332pp; viii 350pp the final leaf unopened original azure linen cloth-covered boards elaborately gilt with a cover vignette and highly embellished spine gilt lettered extremities a trifle rubbed and bumped scant foxing a highly attractive copy in very good condition. Foundational work on the Parsis for a Western audience by influential Indian newspaper editor and adminstrator Dosabhai Framji Karaka 1829-1902. . Macmillan & Co. hardcover
1835198166Paris.: A. Bertrand. 1835. Aquatint 27.1 x 36.3 cms; 32 x 47.6cms sheet trimmed including platemark margins outside the platemark toned and discoloured edge tears one encroaching on the platemark image unaffected small bloom of browning at the foot near caption the image a fine dark impression in very good condition. Tranquil river view by artist and draughtsman Barthelemy Lauvergne 1805-1875 from the official account of the Laplace voyage in the Favorite 1830-32. . A. Bertrand. unknown
1891173786London.: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1891. Large folding map 64.7 x 71.7cm map size 67.5 x 100cm sheet size with railway gauges highlighted in original colour three small tears without loss along the folds and two longer fold tears strengthened on the verso without loss the left margin of the sheet chipped with some overall toning but a striking map in good condition. Impressive large map from the exhaustive Survey of India with the burgeoning railway network highlighted in attractive detail. A lengthy gazetteer listing "Principal centres of traffic showing goods and passenger traffic separately and combined" is printed either side of the map. . [Her Majesty's Stationery Office]. unknown
1999x-071464983XFrank Cass & Co 1999. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 369 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.50 inches. Frank Cass & Co hardcover
1792911831792. London. 1792. Dark green cloth gilt type to spine. Sugar report 64 pages followed by six appendices 1789-1790; together with "Thanks to Lord Cornwallis and the Officers Serving in India" and debate 1793 161 pages;"Regulations Proposed to form the By-Laws" 27 pages; "The Debates at the East India House on the 18th of June 1794 on the Consideration of the Report of the Committee of By-Laws and on Mr Twining's Motion . . . " reported by William Woodfall with an Appendix containing letters etc. necessary to elucidate the subject 1794 52 pages; "The Debates at the East India House on Wednesday the 21st of January 1795 on the mode of forming into a by-law Mr Twining's motion . . . which had been carried by Ballot and also on the subject of the Company's Shipping" reported by William Woodfall 1795 134 pages. Corners a little bumped spine and margins of boards sl. damp-mottled edges of boards rubbed. A few marks in blue and red pencil to title-page of Sugar Report. hardcover
1930188517Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch 1930. Fifth iteration of this important collection of treaties and deeds sanads granted to the rulers of the provinces of Agra and Oudh Bengal Bihar and Orissa and the central provinces. These confirmed the princes in their roles in return for allegiance to Britain. Only 665 copies were printed and just 7 are held in UK institutions. Aitchison 1832-1896 went out to India as a civil servant in September 1856 narrowly escaping a massacre at Hissar in 1857 before being stationed at Amritsar. In 1865 he took up administrative work in the Punjab where he was "extremely industrious and thorough in his work. He exercised a marked influence on successive governors-general who trusted him for advice" ODNB. He commenced a compilation entitled A Collection of Treaties Engagements and Sanads Relating to India and Neighbouring Countries in 1862 and eleven volumes were issued by 1892. In 1882 he became governor-general of the Punjab where he advocated for the Indianization of the civil service. Copies of this volume in the UK are held by the British Library Oxford Cambridge King's College London LSE National Library of Scotland and SOAS. Large octavo 257 x 180 mm. Tables in text. Contemporary khaki half cloth spine lettered in gilt low bands ruled in gilt brown cloth boards. Purple ink stamp of the Legal Adviser's Department CRO Downing Street on front free endpaper deaccession stamp on title page. Binding a little scuffed and marked spine toned rear board nicked at fore edge title page loose but holding: a very good copy. hardcover
186130491033 Norland Square Notting Hill 1861. 4pp. 12mo. Old folds. 4pp. 12mo. Born in Bombay in 1799 Duncan was the illegitimate son of the Governor of Bombay. Duncan's father's wealth enabled him to pursue a literary life and he published regularly from 1825-57. <br /> <br /> He summarises the work thus: "The object of this book is to enable those who have never studied India to acquire a knowledge of its institutions with the best possible expenditure of time." A book on India would be seemingly inevitable for a writer with his background yet the work described here was seemingly never published. unknown
151976364Calcutta: His Highness the Nizam's Government 1915-1932. First editions of the first ten publications from this now defunct Indian principality. Quarto. Each paper separately paginated and all with plates at the rear. Original printed green wrappers. Recently bound in attractive and tactile black cloth and with red and black morocco gilt spine labels. Number 1 with perforated stamp to lower blank margin of front wrapper and with same stamp in ink on the half-title all with small paper labels on bottom inner margin of front wrappers rear wrappers not bound in but for the last issue front wrapper of first volume with a couple of small wrinkles. An attractive presentation of the scarce first ten publications of this famed archaeological series from the puppet state of Nizam in India.Originally a vassal state of the Mughal government. the state of Hyderabad fell on hard times in the eighteenth century. The Mughal emperor granted the princely state of Hyderabad to Nizam-ul-Mulk the first of a series of Asaf Jahs. A largely autonomous state the Nizams ruled Hyderabad from 1724 to 1947. Late in the eighteenth century the Nizams allied themselves to the British. There were left alone by the British providing they allow the Raj to dictate their foreign policy and provided the Nizams provided soldiers for actions the British took in India. The Nizam’s kingdom was remarkable for its religious tolerance and it secular-orientated rule in general. While the ruling dynasty was Muslim the majority of the population was Hindu. The state adopted a secular administration thereby discouraging religious tensions. Indeed the Nizams built and maintained both Hindu and Muslim temples and facilities. The Kingdom was around the size of France and it was enormously wealthy. Mir Osman Ali Khan the last ruling Nizam of Hyderabad was arguably the richest man on earth in the early 20th century. It all came to an end in 1947 when the newly formed Indian government sent its military to squash the independent state. The state ruled by the Nizam previously called "Hyderabad State" is now primarily part of the Indian state of Telangana. All ten publications are complete and the titles are as follows;1 The New Asokan Edict of Maski. 1915. 2 The Daulatabad Plates of Jagadekamalla A.D. 1017. 19173 Inscriptions at Palampet and Uparpalli. 19194 Pakhal Inscription of the Reign of the Kakatiya Ganapatideva. 19195 Munirabad Stone Inscription of the 13th year of Tribhuvanamala Vikramaditya VI. 1922.6 The Kotagiri Plates of the Reign of the Kakatiya Queen Rudramamba A.D. 1275. 19257 Bodhan Stone Inscription of the Reign of Trailokyamalla Somesvara A.D. 1056. 19258 The Inscriptions of Nagai. 1928.9 Shitab Khan of Warangal by Dr. Hirananda Sastri. 1932.10 The Gavimath and Palkigundu Inscriptions of Asoka. Edited by R. L. Turner. 1932.OCLC records two complete files but no individual titles dating this early. No copies ever at auction. The Nizam spared no expense on this publication using high quality paper and enabling fine photographic illustrations. The first nine numbers were printed at the Baptist Mission Press in Calcutta and the last issue at the Oxford University Press. The Archaeological Department of the Government of the Nizam of Hyderabad restored the Ajanta paintings in the 1920's. His Highness the Nizam's Government hardcover
191121538London: A & C Black. 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Slight fading to gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Hinges and front board near outer hinge professionally repaired. A handsome copy with a bit of browning to the last few pages and with a new front free endpaper.; Top edge gilt. Turkois boards blindstamped along edges. Gilt lettering to boards and spine and with gilt vignette. One of the most decorative books by A & C Black. 72 tissue guarded watercolors by the British military artist A. C. Lovett. This is the very rare first edition with gilt lettering and spine lettering and top edge gilt. Inman 39.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages . A & C Black hardcover
2016x-149396416XSpringer Verlag 2016. Hardcover. New. 443 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. Springer Verlag hardcover
ria9781439888254_inpHardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The over-exploitation of the Earth’s resources has brought about an unsustainable situation where biodiversity and ecological balance are under dire threat. But the most immediate concern is global warming caused by high anthropogeni hardcover
18358652First edition. Octavo. Descriptive account by Rev. Hobart Caunter. 22 engravings from original drawings by William Daniell. 263 pages 4 pages of advertisements. Original gilt and blindstamped dark brown morocco spine with gilt stamped design of a palm tree and camel covers with gilt stamped vignette of 3 men riding on an elephant surrounded by blindstamped border of intertwined snakes a.e.g. rubbing to extremities. Very good. No foxing. Binder's ticked of F. Westley. Bookplate of H. Scofield and C.W. Nicolay with Nicolay's ink signature dated 1835. Bull and Churton hardcover
1881143683London: James Imray and Son 1881. Good. London James Imray and Son 1881. A very large engraved chart in two sheets combined printed surface 1039 × 1240 mm overall sheet size 1039 × 1264 mm with minimal hand-colouring mounted together on the original blue backing paper with the publisher's title-label on the verso. Minor chipping at the edges with minimal loss to the headline title above the top border; a few light stains and creases; a short sealed tear to the middle of the left and right sides one extending about 100 mm into the printed surface; a few old pencil annotations; in good condition. A very large and detailed blueback chart of the western part of the Java Sea the passages connecting it to the Indian Ocean the Sunda Strait and the South China Seas the Karimata Gaspar and Bangka Straits and Batavia Jakarta. Lighthouses are highlighted with spots of red and yellow colouring. <p>The publisher's inkstamp dated 1882 appears near the imprint. The title-label on the verso reads 'Chart No. 161. Western Route to China. In Six Charts. Chart No 1. Price 7s. 6d.'. James Imray and Son unknown
1881143682London: James Imray and Son 1881. Very Good. London James Imray and Son 1881/ 1863. A very large engraved chart in two sheets combined size approximately 1040 × 1285 mm with minimal hand-colouring mounted together on the original blue backing paper with the publisher's title-label on the verso. Head and foot slightly cropped with slight loss to the text outside the border; some marginal chips and tears with two that extend slightly into the printed surface now expertly sealed; short left-hand portion of the top margin a little waterstained not affecting the printed surface; a few trifling spots of foxing and some unobtrusive creases; overall in very good condition. A very large and detailed blueback chart of the Java Sea including the eastern half of the Indonesian archipelago and the southern coasts of Borneo and Sulawesi. It includes twelve inset charts: the Baly Bali Strait; Sapie Bay; Labuan Tring Bay; Tafel Hoek; Segoro Wedie Bay; Beliling and Sangsit Roads; Bunkolan and Lirang Roads; Koeboe Road; Amok Bay and Padang Cove; Tiulik Road; Oedyon Road; and Macassar. Lighthouses are highlighted with small spots of red and yellow colouring. <p>The publisher's inkstamp dated 1882 appears below the title. The title-label on the verso reads 'Chart No. 171. Eastern Passages to China & Japan in Nine Charts. Chart No 1. Price 7s. 6d.'. James Imray and Son unknown
1914180951914. Certificate awarded to the Vicereine of India Lady Hardinge of Penshurst upon her visit to the Indraprastha Hindu Girls School in Delhi. 1914. Measures 10" x 16" inches. Text enclosed in ornately decorative box with the school's seal centered at the top reading "The Hindu Girls School Delhi First deserve then desire 1904." The certificate's attractive green script reads in part "To her excellency Lady Hardinge of Penshurst May it please your Excellency It is with feelings of the profoundest joy and gratitude that we to-day welcome Your Excellency to the Indraprastha Hindu Girls School Delhi.Your Excellency's loving interest in the advancement of the women of this land and motherly affection for the children your care for the suffering poor the exemplary fortitude which you have shewn in the time of danger and the heroic devotion to your husband--our ideals of womanhood--have endeared your name to every woman and child in India and we pray you to accept our reverential and warm-hearted welcome to-day." Lady Hardinge of Penshurst Winifred Selina Sturt married her first cousin Henry Sturt a racing magnate and close friend of Edward Prince of Wales. She served as a Woman of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales before her husband by then a Baron was named Viceroy of India. The concurrence of monarchical rule and colonialism put aristocratic families with close ties to the royal family put aristocratic Europeans in positions of power worldwide no matter their qualifications. The family moved to India where Lady Hardinge worked to advance women's education. She was instrumental in starting the Lady Hardinge Medical College in Delhi the first medical school exclusively for women in India. She died in November of 1914 just 8 months after receiving this certificate. Signed by the school's President Lady Superintendent and Secretary. Creased along lines where paper was folded. 3 small holes along left side do not affect text. 1" tears along top do not affect text. Tape attached to verso. Very good condition. unknown
