Partition of India and Pakistan.- A collection of documents relating to Sir Thomas Hobart Ellis, the former governor of East Pakistan, including: documents relating to Ellis’s ‘personal bearer’ Rasool Mia’s attempts to “recover his lost nationality”: “The introduction of the passport system caught him on the Indian side of the frontier. He applied for an Indian Passport as an Indian subject. There was inevitably some delay […] and in January, 1953, he began to fear that he would lose his service, so he came back to Dacca on a repatriation certificate, without realising the consequences of his act”; documents relating to Ellis’s new post as ‘Officer on Special Duty, Ministry of Refugees and Rehabilitation, to investigate every allotment of refugee property’; documents relating to a three-year long delay in arranging Ellis’s pension post-partition: ‘“the authorities in Pakistan are making heavy weather over the calculation and sanctioning”, v.s., majority c.1954-57 (quantity)