Seal of Governor General of India, 1840
- Title
- Seal of Governor General of India, 1840
- Description
- An object from last years of the East India Company’s administration: the 1840 seal of the Governor General of India, Lord Auckland. It is attached to a letter dated 1842 to Maharajah Sher Singh, thanking him for services rendered in relation to the first Afghan war. The letter and the seal are in Persian, which persisted as a lingua franca in the early years of British rule.
- Creator
- [unknown]
- Date
- 1940
- Identifier
- Fuller/V/7/6
- Collection
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