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456 Rajah of Satara. Some of the dates are wrong. There is a MS. English translation in another volume.

118. Original Correspondence (O. C), India Office MS. records. This series includes letters from Surat and Bombay to the E. I. Co., (London) and letters between Surat and Bombay and the sub- ordinate factories. There is a catalogue of these, giving writer, place and date, but very little indication of the contents. In most cases there is a volume for every year. The O. C. volumes deal indiscriminately with all parts of India where the Company had factories. From 1682 to 1689 they contain little beyond duplicates of what is given in the F. R. [The English records are extremely valuable, being absolutely contemporary with the events described and preserved without any change or garbling. The English traders sometimes engaged spies to get correct news of Shivaji. There is no such old or authentic material in Marathi.]

119. Factory Records (F. R.), India Office MS. records. There is a distinct series for each principal factory, such as Rajapur, Surat, Bombay, Fort St. George, &c. They include (a) Consultations at these factories and (b) copies of letters received and dispatched by them (some being repeated in O. C.) There are several gaps in the period 1660-1689 and the existing volumes are unindexed.

Surat Consultations — none extant for 1636-60, 64, 67, 68, 71, 73, 75, 76, 78, 80, 81, and 84-96, but