Political History: Speeches, Letters, and Documents

• The French report on Sirajuddaulah's siege of Calcutta, 1756

• Robert Clive reports on the Battle of Plassey, 1757

• Clive suggests direct rule over Bengal, 1759

• The Court of Directors comments to Clive on the growing chaos in Bengal, 1765

• Mughal Emperor Shah Alam's grant of diwani to the East India Company, 1765

• Treaty between Shujauddaula, the Nawab of Awadh, Najmuddaula, the Nawab of Bengal, and the East India Company, 16 August 1765

• East India Company Act, 1767 (7 Geo. III, c. 57)

• Warren Hastings to the Court of Directors, reflecting on the Government of Bengal, 11 November 1773

• East India Company Act, 1773 (13 Geo. III, c. 63)

• Warren Hastings to Lord Mansfield, reflecting on the legal system in Bengal, 21 March 1774

• Warren Hastings to Laurence Sullivan, reflecting on conditions in India, 21 March 1776

• Warren Hastings to Alexander Elliot, commenting on India politics, 12 January 1777

• East India Company Act, 1784 (24 Geo. III, s. 2, c. 25)

• Edmund Burke on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, 15-19 February 1788

• Earl Cornwallis to the Court of Directors, 2 August 1789

• Earl Cornwallis to the Court of Directors, 6 March 1793

• The Governor-General [Marquess Wellesley] in Council to the Court of Directors, 9 July 1800

• The Marquess of Hastings to the Court of Directors, 8 February 1818

• Lord William Bentinck on the Suppression of Sati, 8 November 1829

• Thomas Babington Macaulay, House of Commons, 10 July 1833

• Government of India Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 85)

• Sir Charles Napier on the Occupation of Sind, 17 October 1842

• The Earl of Dalhousie commenting on his administration of India, 28 February 1856

• Petition from the East India Company to Parliament, February 1858

• Viscount Palmerston, House of Commons, 12 February 1858

• Sir George Cornewall Lewis, House of Commons, 12 February 1858

• Robert Vernon Smith, House of Commons, 16 February 1858

• Government of India Act, 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 106)

• Proclamation by the Queen to the Princes, Chiefs, and the People of India, 1 November 1858

• Sir Charles Wood speak to the House of Commons on the Government of India Bill, 6 June 1861

• Indian Councils Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Victoria, c. 67)

• George Nathaniel Curzon speaks to the House of Commons on the Indian Councils Bill, 28 March 1892

• William Ewart Gladstone speaks to the House of Commons on the Indian Councils Bill, 28 March 1892

• Indian Councils Act of 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 14)

• Viscount Morley of Blackburn speaks to the  House of Lords on the Government of India Bill of 1909, 23 February 1909

• Lord Courtney of Penwith speaks to the House of Lords on the Government of India Bill of 1909, 24 February 1909

• Indian Councils Act of 1909 (9 Edward 7, Chapter 4)

• G. K. Gokhale's Political Testament, 1915

• Memorandum as to Post-war Reforms, signed by 19 Elected Members of the Indian Legislative Council, October 1916

• Lucknow Pact, December 1916

• Resolutions VII, IX, and XXII of the Imperial War Conference, April 1917

• Edwin S. Montagu speaks to the House of Commons, 20 August 1917 (Declaration of August 1917)

• Imperial War Conference, 24 July 1918

• Government of India Notification, July 1918

• Report on Indian Constitutional Reforms by Edwin S. Montagu and Lord Chelmsford, 1918

• Edwin S. Montagu speaks to the House of Commons on the Government of India Bill, 5 June 1919

• Report of the Joint Select Committee on the Government of India Bill, 17 November 1919

• William Adamson speaks to the House of Commons on the Government of India Bill, 5 December 1919

• Lord Carmichael speaks to the House of Lords on the Government of India Bill, 12 December 1919

• Government of India Act  1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 101)

• Proclamation by the King-Emperor on the Government of India Act, 23 December 1919

• The King-Emperor's Message to the Rulers of the Indian States on the Inauguration of the Chamber of Princes, February 1921

• H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught's Address to the Indian Assembly on its Inauguration, 9 February 1921