This is a collection of rare manuscripts and monographs from Britain's India Office concerning the commercial, political, military and administrative operations of British India, British Burma, and the East India Company.
Items include reports, memoranda, correspondence, pamphlets, official publications, intelligence diaries, accounts of political and scientific expeditions, travel diaries, handbooks and maps.
Topics covered include military operations during the Boxer Rebellion; intelligence on people and places encountered by British armed forces; and border disputes and negotiations between China, India, Britain, Tibet, Xinjiang, Burma, Russia, Pakistan and other Central Asian countries. Also included are critical essays in English and Chinese by subject experts.
Of interest to students and scholars of East Asian studies, South Asian studies, postcolonial studies, international relations, economics, political science, religious studies, geography, and history. http://go.utlib.ca/cat/12996699