Catalogue description 'A proposal for establishing a Professorship of the Persian Language in the University...

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Reference: Mss Eur J809
Description:

'A proposal for establishing a Professorship of the Persian Language in the University of Oxford': printed pamphlet probably by Warren Hastings (1732-1818), Governor of Bengal 1772-74 and Governor-General 1774-85, and Henry Vansittart (1732-70), Governor of Bengal 1760-64. Cf P J Marshall, 'Warren Hastings as Scholar and Patron' in A Whiteman (ed), 'Statesmen, Scholars and merchants' (Oxford 1973). MISSING. Another copy is available in Rare Books Reading Room: ref G17132.

Date: 1765-1769
Held by: British Library: Asian and African Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, governor-general of India

Physical description: 16pp

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