"Gebietsakten Indien. Südmahratta & Malabar 1872 / Letters and Reports from India: North Karnataka and North Kerala 1872"

These documents have been rebound in the 1990s with no label or title, but the original title will have corresponded to what we give above. See the description of C-1.50: this volume is unusual in binding letters and reports from North Karnataka (South Mahratta) with those from North Kerala (Malabar). The Nilgiri documents for 1872 are anomalously bound in C-1.52. The reasons for these new divisions are obscure. The amount of correspondence is of the same order of magnitude as in preceding years. In spite of this reorganisation the individual sections correspond to those in the relevant parts of C-1.46 and C-1.47. In this volume too (as in C-1.51) the documents are numbered right through. It contains 182 documents. The next two volumes, C-1.52 and C-1.53, with the correspondence for 1873, can be seen as mavericks. What is usually in the first volume of correspondence for a particular year is filed in the second. And with the material in the first volume of the year (which you normally find in the second) is filed the Nilgiris correspondence for the previous year. Nevertheless once one has grasped the unorthodoxy of the arrangement of the materials at this "macro-level" the internal organisation of the volumes into sections is the one which familiar from the preceding years. And the documents are again (as in C-1.48 and C-1.49) numbered in the sections, and not through the whole volume.

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