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Enclosures to Secret Letters from India

Catalogue reference: IOR/L/PS/5/126-258

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This record is about the Enclosures to Secret Letters from India dating from 1836-1874.

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IOR/L/PS/5/126-258
Title
Enclosures to Secret Letters from India
Date
1836-1874
Description

Extracts of the Government of India's correspondence, proceedings, minutes etc in the Secret Department sent home with their Secret Letters to the EIC Court of Directors (1836-1858) and the India Office (1858-1874) and used by the home authorities for information purposes when compiling their answering dispatches to India. Vol 168, Jul 1858 [L/PS/5/249] contains enclosures to Secret Letters from India and Singapore; Vol 257, 1861-1865 [L/PS/5/257] contains enclosures to Secret Letters from India and Madras; Vol 177, 1866-1874 [L/PS/5/258] contains abstracts of Secret Letters from India. Vols 63-257, 1839-1865 [L/PS/5/144-257] contain indexes.

Related material

Secret Letters from India, 1836-1859 [IOR/L/PS/5/44-63].

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British Library: Asian and African Studies
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
133 volumes
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Record URL
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IOR/L/PS/5

Secret Correspondence with India

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Enclosures to Secret Letters from India