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Restrictions on the Press in India.

Catalogue reference: IOR/H/535

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IOR/H/535
Title
Restrictions on the Press in India.
Date
1823-1834
Description

(1) pp. 1-341, James Pattison (Chairman) and William Wigram (Deputy Chairman) to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn (President of the Board of Control) 17th Jan. 1823, History of the Press prior to the Censorship in India and necessity of Control. Printed in Appendix (see H/536, pp. 939-79) to ''Report and Evidence of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Suppression of the Calcutta Journal,'' Parliamentary Blue Book No. 601 of 1834, pp. 111-28. For Appendix to this letter see H/537-539. (2) pp. 343 478, Proceedings before H.M.'s Most Honourable Privy Council in relation to Mr. Buckingham's Appeal (Printed. There is a copy in the India Office Library); pp. 479-559, Statement of Facts relative to the removal from India of Mr. Buckingham, late Editor of the Calcutta Journal, Calcutta, April 1823, with Appendix. (Printed. Not attached to the India Office Library Copy.) (3) pp. 561-909, Mr. Buckingham's Statement to the Select Committee of the House of Commons 1st July 1834.

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British Library: Asian and African Studies
Former department reference
Q/ISC/79
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Language
English
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1 volume
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