MADRAS Army. Quarterly Army List and Civil Service List corrected to 31 Dec 1878.

The Quarterly Army List of Her Majesty’s British and Indian Forces on the Madras Establishment, Corrected to 31st December, 1878. Adjutant General’s Office [Madras] 1879 1st edition 8vo.

x, 311pp [army list including war service notes], 42pp [Civil Service List], [2pp Civil India], xv [Military Index], [2pp General Index], pp23 – 36 & 63- 102 {General Orders by c-in-c], [4pp bankers, agents, lists of forms etc]. Modern stout blue cloth titled on spine in gilt, repaired original paper cover bound in. Generally clean although pp71-94 of the General Orders are very browned and rather fragile. Armorial ownership bookplate dated 1972 to front free endpaper. pp 261- 268 lists appointments in British Burma. There are also lists of covenanted civil servants, the Hyderabad Contingent, &c and the work is fully indexed.     jun2/2