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"Letters from Lord Northbrooke 1872-1882"

1872-1882

From: 1872 To: 1882

Letters from Lord Northbrooke at Government House Simla, and Government House Calcutta, to Samuel Whitbread MP concerning affairs in India, including: General description of Calcutta and its region: discontent among the people; great gulf between government and governed, burden of taxation etc. Commission of Enquiry into attempt by an Indian Prince to poison Colonel Phayre, 1875. Differences between Lord Northbrooke and Lord Salisbury, and resignation of Northbrooke as Viceroy, 1876. Defence of Lord Northbrook by Whitbread in the House of Commons, 1879 Letter [in different hand - signature illegible], 1882

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Baring, Thomas George (1st Earl of Northbrook),
Whitbread, Samuel,
Phayre, Robert,
Salisbury,
Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert (3rd Marquess of Salisbury)

political correspondence, Simla, Calcutta, India, Government, taxation, poison, resignation, Viceroy, PARLIAMENT