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East India Jails CommitteeBiblio.com

Report of the Indian Jails Committee 1919-20 Classic Reprint

EAST INDIA COMPANYBiblio.com

Rules and Articles for the Better Government of the Officers and Soldiers in the Service of The United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies from the 25th Day of March 1754.

1808177936London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan for Black Parry and Kingsbury 1808. Later edition following the first of 1754. This volume was owned by Lieutenant Colonel Neil Campbell 1788-1848 with his signature dated 12 August 1809 on the title page. Campbell joined the Bengal Army that same year and likely used it as part of his training. Nonetheless within six months he was tried by court martial. Soon after landing in India as an ensign Campbell was tried for ill-treating a civil Indian official imprisoned for eight months and fined. "This little incident does not however seem to have interfered with his military promotion for he was a Lieutenant in 1814 and retired as a Lieut.-Colonel in 1841 sharing in the Bhurtpore prize-money in 1825" Campbell p. lvi. In addition he volunteered for the campaign to annex Kalinfar Fort 1812 helped to hunt down the chief of Bundelkhand Gopal Singh and fought in the Anglo-Nepalese War 1814-16. He had 13 children with Isabella Campbell née Anne. The original front free endpaper is signed and inscribed: "This belonged to Major Neil Campbell Kilmartin of the H.E.I.C.S 1787-1848 my great grandfather". We have traced one copy in the Saraswathi Mahal Library. Octavo 181 x 115 mm pp. 48 bulked with blanks. With 4 pp. of publisher's advertisements following text. Modern sprinkled half calf black spine label brown cloth boards with borders tooled in blind original front free endpaper bound in ticket of Period Binders Bath tipped in at rear. Contents lightly browned: a very good copy. This edition not in NCSTC. Duncan Campbell Records of Clan Campbell in the Military Service of the Honourable East India Company 1600-1858 1925 hardcover

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