A range of subjects is covered. Highlights include:
- Papers of Henry Dundas including extensive correspondence with Marquis Wellesley and Lord Cornwallis, governor-generals of India
- Accounts of daily life in Agra, Bombay, Lahore, Madras and other areas
- A diary of a trip down the Ganges in 1826
- An account of life in the Madras army, 1768-1777
- Records of the Mahratta wars, the Sikh wars, the war against Tipu Sultan, the Burmese war and other conflicts
- Papers of an official of the East India Company
- Records of Arbuthnot & Co, traders in Madras
- The diary of a hunting expedition
- An account of a duel, court martials and of the murder of a servant
- Papers of Andrew Hunter, coffee planter, 1860-1870
- Illustrated accounts of tea-planting in India, 1780-1855
- Reminiscences of an indigo farmer
- Discussions of Indian Nationalism in the 1930s
See India, Raj & Empire
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