Shivaji and His Times c20.s8.t5: E. English
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[When I began my study of Shivaji's history, Foster's English Factories in India had not reached the period of his activities. I had, therefore, to get transcripts of the old records in the India Office, London, at great cost and some risk of error in the copying. (Two serious ones were discovered too late for the second edition.) Now that Foster's series has been continued to 1670, I have retained my references to the documents themselves as more convenient to inquirers than citations of the pages of Foster's book.]
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124. Original Correspondence (O. C.), India Office MS. records. This series includes letters from Surat and Bombay to the E. I. Co., (London) and letters between Surat and Bombay and the subordinate factories. There is a catalogue of these, giving writer, place and date, but very little indication of the contents. In most cases there is a volume for every year. O. C. volumes deal indiscriminately with all parts of India where the Company had factories. From 1682 to 1689 they contain little beyond duplicates of what is given in the *F. R.*
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125. *Factory Records* (*F. R.*), India Office MS. records. There is a distinct series for each principal factory, such as Rajapur, Surat, Bombay, Fort St. George, &c. They include (*a*) Consultations at these factories and (*b*) copies of letters received and dispatched by them (some being repeated in *O. C.*) There are several gaps in the period 1660-1689 and the existing volumes are unindexed.
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*Surat Consultations*—none extant for 1636-'60, 64, 67, 68, 71, 73, 75, 76, 78, 80, 81, and 84-96, but the gaps are partially filled by the *Letters received and dispatched* and the *O. C.* Only four volumes have survived for 1660-1683.
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*Surat Letters*—about 20 volumes for the period in question.
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*Records of Fort St. George*: *Diary and Consultation Book*, for 1672-78 and 1678-79, printed at Madras. (1910 and 1911.) A few other papers are given in Love's *Vestiges of Old Madras*, 3 vols.
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*Orme MSS.* in the India Office Library (catalogued by S. C. Hill) contain copies of several factory records the originals of which have perished.
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After 1683 the English factory records are very scanty.
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*Diary of W. Hedges*, ed. by Yule, (Hakluyt Soc.) Vol. II. p. ccxxvi gives *Surat to Co.*, 20 Nov. 1670.
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126. *Dutch Factory Records* preserved in the India Office, London. Vols. 23-29, covering 1659-'70, are in English translations, while Vols. 30-42, covering 1670-89, are in Dutch. They are very disappointing to the historian of Shivaji and contain very few references to the Marathas. The volumes from 1671 onwards contain scarcely any remarks on the affairs of Western India. "Up to 1664 or so, the compiler copied the letters from India into the *Dagh Register*, verbatim or almost so. From about 1665 to the end of the series, the Indian letters were copied into a different Register, viz., ‘Incoming letters’; the *Dagh Register* refers to this for details, and gives at most an occasional scrap of news. It is conceivable, but I fear very improbable that the Registers of Incoming Letters, or some of them, may be in existence at Batavia." (Moreland.)
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127. *Storia do Mogor* or travels of Manucci, tr. by W. Irvine, 4 vols.
128. *Bernier's Travels*, ed. by Constable.
129. *Tavernier's Travels*, ed. by Ball, 2 vols.
130. *J. Fryer's New Account of East India*, ed. by W. Crooke, 2 vols. (1909.)
131. *Orme's Historical Fragments of the Mogul Empire &c.*, London (1805.)
132. *J. Grant Duff's History of the Mahrattas*, (1826.)
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The *Madras District Manuals* are the old ed., while the *Gazetteers* are the new, ed.
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English translations are mentioned under their Marathi Persian or Hindi originals.