Partition of India; Bangladesh; Pakistan. Collection of books and documents ex libris Sir Thomas Hobart Ellis (1894-1981), including:
i) 'Fatik Bannerjee's Gang Case' [spine-title], typescript report by Ellis, approx. 150 ff. (rectos only), folio, contemporary half sheep,
ii) Folder of typescript notes and correspondence and newspaper cuttings on the Multiple Allotments Act (1957), together with 5 folders of similar documents,
iii) Manuscript notebook of N. L. Hindley, district judge, Tippera, 1933, approx. 50 ff., quarter roan binding, spine defective,
iv) Ellis's degree certificate (BA, Queen's College, Oxford, 1920); certificate of appointment to Indian Civil Service, 1919; certificate of appointment as permanent Chief Justice of the High Court of East Bengal, 1953; certificate of appointment as governor of East Bengal during the absence of Iskander Mirza, 1954,
v) A collection of approx. 50 gelatin silver print photographs, including individual portraits of Ellis and others, group portraits including High Court of Judicature at Dacca in East Bengal, 1954, a folder of aerial photographs,
vi) Printed books, comprising:
a) Ellis (Thomas Hobart). Report of Inquiry Against Mr M. A. Muqtadir, Additional District Magistrate, Dacca, in connection with the Adamjee Jute Mill Riots. Secret, Dacca [Dhaka]: East Bengal Government Press, 1951, folio, original wrappers, 38 pp.,
b) Speeches delivered by His Excellency Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman ... Iskander Mirza ... Sir Thomas Hobart Ellis ... Mohammad Shahabuddin, Dacca [Dhaka]: East Bengal Government Press, 1954, 8vo, original quarter cloth, 112 pp.
c) Report of the Indian Statutory Commission. Volume 1 - Survey [Volume 2 - Recommendations], Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch, 1930, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half sheep, folding maps (collation not established), ownership inscriptions of T. H. Ellis,
d) Macdonald (David). Touring in Sikkim and Tibet, Kalimpong: published by the author, 1930, small 8vo, contemporary half sheep, Ellis's name gilt-stamped to spine and with his annotations to endpapers, lacking map, and one other similar (Percy Brown, Tours in Sikhim, 3rd edition, Calcutta, 1934, not collated),
e) 'A Study of Christian-Muslim Relations in East Pakistan. Walter Bruce Davis, 1961', roneoed typescript, 51 ff., wire-stitched in wrappers,
vii) Other items, including 3 watercolours, a visitors' book titled on cover 'Ellis Arms', a commonplace book dated 1877, function invitations, banquet menus, and similar (qty: a carton)

Thomas Hobart Ellis (1894-1981) was Chief Justice of the East Bengal High Court, and served as acting governor of East Pakistan (modern Bangladesh) in 1954 during the absence of Major-General Iskander Mirza.