Correspondence both to and from the Royal House of Mewar, ma...

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Correspondence both to and from the Royal House of Mewar, marked 'Secret' and 'Confidential': a collection of correspondence dated 1888, some in handwritten English, some in Hindi and Urdu, concerning the medical care of the Ranee/Rani of the Maharaj of Bagore, Shakti Singh (a branch of the Mewar Royal family), a handwritten letter from Dr Edith Pechey to Colonel Miles stating that the Ranee was unfortuantley not pregnant and symptoms to suggest otherwise were the result of disease; Hand signed letters between Mewar and the Viceroy, Governor General of India, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma in the months preceding Indian Independence and Partition, May 1947, the Prime Minister of Udaipur, Diwan Bahadur Sir Thiruvalayangudi Vijayaraghavacharya KBE expresses the secrecy of such correspondence and the importance of securing a visit by the Viceroy ahead of other Indian States, Viceroy Mountbatten responds to the personal invitation of Maharana Bhupal Singh of Mewar expressing his delight at his inivitation; A packet of correspondence dating to the late 1930s regarding the adoption of Bhagwat Singh as sucessor to His Highness Maharajadhiraja Maharana Sir Bhupal Singh Bahadur, with hand written and hand signed correspondence between the Maharana and the Governor-General, Viceroy of India, The Marquess of Linlithgow explaining the geneological basis of the sucession, the auspicious date of the sucession ceramony as dictated by the royal astrologers etc., also a packet dated to the early 1940s regarding the education and care of the Bhagwat Singh, overseen by Colonel Rao Sahib Samrath Singh Ji Galthani and Captain M. S. Harvey-Jones, complete with complaints from the staff at Mayo College, Ajmer, regarding the disruptive influence of Bhagwat Singh's overly large retenue, specifically the 'undesirable' influence of the boy's natural father, Maharaj Pratap Singh (1 folder) Note: Mary Edith Pechey (British, 1845-1908) was only the third female medical doctor registered in the UK, a member of the 'Edinburgh Seven' and campaigner for women's rights. She spent more than 20 years in India as a senior doctor, working at Cama Hospital, still extant in Mumbai (then Bombay) Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles (1838–1914) was a British Indian Army officer, diplomat, and Arabist who served as the Political Resident in Mewar, 1887-1893 Provenance: formerly the property of Annabella Parker, second wife of Maharana Bhagwat Singh of Mewar (Udaipur, India, 1921-1984)

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