File CB6/1 - Intelligence, communications and memoranda, etc.,

Intelligence, communications, and memoranda, etc., on a variety of matters, largely undated, but deriving from the military situation prevailing in the late 1750s and in 1765-1766 during Clive’s second and third tours of duty in India. It includes the declaration, [c. 1756x1757], of Francis Sykes [at the time assistant to William Watts, chief of the factory at Cossimbazar] pertaining to Kissendas/Krishna Das [an Indian trader whose protection by the English following his embezzlement of the revenues of Siraj-ud-daula, the Nawab of Bengal, contributed to the war between the latter and the East India Company] taking up residence in Calcutta, intelligence relating to the strength of Chandernagore [presumably before its capture in March 1757], Clive’s statement on the undesirability of carrying arms beyond Bengal [presumably a reference to the policy of his second and last governorship commencing in 1765] and a memorandum relating to an officer’s resignation during the Batta mutiny, 1766.