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George Carter: papers on history, archaeology and folklore of Pakistan.

Title	George Carter: papers on history, archaeology and folklore of Pakistan.
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.9456
Creator	Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary
Covering Dates	1915–1930
Extent and Medium	paper; photographs
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

George Edward Lovelace Carter (1886-1974), worked for the Indian Civil Service from 1910, was at times Assistant Collector in Bombay and at Tatta, and Municipal Commissioner, Hyderabad, 1916-18. He married Ivy Octavia Wakefield in India, and retired to Budleigh Salterton, Devon. He was especially interested in the history, archaeology and folklore of the province of Sind (now Pakistan), and published several articles on those subjects in the Indian Antiquary and other periodicals.

Published articles and pamphlets, and unpublished notes, translations, and drafts, on the history of Sind and neighbouring states.

Presented by Mrs Priscilla M.L. Hull, daughter of Carter, 1996.

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Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, George Carter: papers on history, archaeology and folklore of Pakistan., MS Add.9456

Manuscripts/MS Add.9456 contains:

Tuhfat-ul-Kiram, part 3. 1 volume, in original language.
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
paper.

[2] MS translation of S. Ali Sher Shah, Tuhfatulkiram (Part III). In English, 3 vols.
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
paper.

[3] Typescript, Materials for a History of the Tatta Division ... Part I of volume B of the Sind Gazetteer (Karachi District).
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
paper.

[4] MS, Introduction to the garland of legend.
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
paper.

[5] MS, The Sammat. A study in social anthropology.
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
paper.

[6] MS, 'Sindhi romance but how much belongs to the Tuhfat ul Kiram i.e.misplaced'.
Creator: Carter, george Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
paper.

[7] MS and typesc ript, The Stone Age in India. Draft, notes, photographs, sketch maps, diagrams; letters, R. Zimmermann (Bombay) (1919), Sir John Marshall (1920).
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
paper; photographs.

[8] Typescript, Ptolemy's map of Sind, published in Anthropological Society of Bombay.
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
paper.

[9] Rough notes and papers. Includes G.Bleazby, Coins and medals ... Pratap Singh Museum, Srinagar (Srinagar, 1900); letters, Goverdhandas Kikla (1915), P.B. Gothurka (Royal Asiatic Society, Bombay) to Abdul Fattah (1915), C.M. Oliver (Government, Bombay) (1915).
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
paper.

[10] Rough notes and papers. Has: extracts, (Indian) Census Report, 1911; paper, Hellenism in Sind; typescript Short biography of Hazrat Mukhdum Kaladar Lal Shahbaz; letters, Henry Cousens, H. Baskerville, C. Baker, J. Curry (1916-17); H. Baskerville, typescript, A "Cyclopaean" building in Deh Kattor (1916); correspondence with H.H. Manghirmalani, N.M. Billimora (Office of Political Agent, Kutch); letter from D.R. Bhendhukar (1918).
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
paper.

[11] Rough notes and papers. Newscuttings by Carter; rubbings of rock carvings; MS statistics of census; typescript Statement of Morio son of Dagar-Khan Buro, zamin dar and hakim of Safoora near Malir; sketch maps, 'Karachi according to Nearchos', 'Route of Nearchos'; letter, R. McQuerry (1915); newscutting, Carter, 'The Greeks in Sind', Times of India Illustrated Weekly (1916); Carter[?], typescript, Excavations at Tando Mahomed Khan; Some account of the wonders of Sibi; genealogy of Baghdadi Pirs of Badin and Palejani ... Sealed with the seal of Abdul Qadir; Carter, Archaeological map of the Tatta Division.
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
paper.

[12] Papers. Short history ... Province of Sind (Karachi, 1916); 'Notes on Sind ... Position of Mt. Eiros', Indian Antiquary (1917); Religion in Sind (Bombay, 1919); Thana palimpsest (Bombay, 1923); Stone Age in Kashmir (Archaeol. Surv. Kashmir, 1924); Old sites on the Lower Indus (Bombay, 1932); 'The headless sacrifice'; 'Magic of cannibalism and self-resuscitation'; 'Ptolemy's map of Sind'; 'Geography of Vendidad, Farg. I'; 'The legend of the Amazons'; 'The Thana Konkan' (Anthropological Soc., Bombay); 'Pebbled mounds' (Transactions, Bombay Anthropol. Soc.);'Making history', 'The contemporary point of view' (Sind College Miscellany, n.d.); typescript, Use of flint in the Rig Veda, n.d.; typescript and MS, Ganeshkind circles and the Stone Age in the Deccan, n.d.; Gran Devi, n.d.; 'A sestertius of Divus Antoninus'.
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
paper.

[13] MS, A note of some Hindu customs prevailing in the city of Hyderabad, Sind. Recorded by Munshi Dayaram Kishalani. Edited by G.E.L. Carter.
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
paper.

[14] Miscellaneous papers. Rubbings of Persian dish or tray; MS of part of a paper on Christian writings, local lore and Hindu temples; 'Evidence of Roman emporia in India'; typescript list of Carter's Indian archaeological 'implements'(1925).
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
paper.

[15] Photograph album. Indian scenes, buildings, antiquities, people, customs.
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
photographs.

[16] Photograph album. Indian scenes, buildings, antiquities, people, customs.
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
photographs.

[17] Photograph album. Indian scenes, buildings, antiquities, people, customs.
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
photographs.

[18] Photograph album. Indian scenes, buildings, antiquities, people, customs.
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
photographs.

[19] Loose photographs. Indian scenes, buildings, antiquities, people, customs.
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
photographs.

[20] Writings by others. Genealogical table of the hereditary officers styled Zeyngars and Dhurmakurtas of the Trimully Triputty Pagoda (n.d.); C.E.A.W. Oldham, Sidi Ali Shelebi in India, 1554-1556 A.D. (Bombay, 1931); M. Longworth Dames, Text book of the Balochi language ... stories, legends, poems ... Balochi-English vocabulary (Lahore, 1913); Jiranji Jamshedi Modi, Dastur Bahman Kaikobad and the Kisseh-I-Sanjan. A reply (Bombay, 1917); typescript, Customs of Amil Hindus settled in Hyderabad (1926).
Creator: Carter, George Edward Lovelace, 1886-1974, civil servant, antiquary.
paper.