Charles Grant and British Rule in India

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Archives of India, while some of his correspondence with LordCornwallis from that period is in the Public Record Office in London. A few of his letters to Lord William Bcntinck are to be found in the Portland Papers at the University of Nottingham; the BodleianLibrary, Oxford, has a number ofimportant letters to Robert Dundas. The MelviDe Papers in the National Library of Scotland (the micro-filmed copies in the National Archives of India were consulted) contain some interesting references to Grant, as do the relevantsections of the Wellesley and Hastings collections in the British Museum. Grant’s many lengthy speeches in Parliament and the EastIndia House were usually reported in considerable detail—sometimes from copies or notes he himself supplied—and these have proved ofgreat value in relating his public and private attitudes. For the details of his private life, the major source is the biography published by‘Henry Morris in 1904. While Morris* chief interest was Grant’s connection wth the establishment of Protestant missions in India, he printed many excerpts from Grant’s journals and private letters, which now seem to be lost.