Series
Correspondence with India
Catalogue reference: IOR/L/E/3
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This record is about the Correspondence with India dating from 1792-1938.
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- IOR/L/E/3
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Title (The name of the record)
- Correspondence with India
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1792-1938
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Description (What the record is about)
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The following separate series of Letters from India are included: Revenue, Separate Revenue, Statistics and Commerce, Revenue (Forests), Geographical, Medical, Commerce and Industry, Commerce and Revenue, and Industries and Labour. In most cases, there are similar series of Letters from Madras and Bombay. Despatches to India and the Presidencies are arranged in the following series: Revenue, Separate Revenue, Revenue (Forests), Geographical, Sanitary, Statistics and Commerce, Revenue and Statistics, Industries and Overseas, Commerce and Revenue, and Economic and Overseas. There are also the usual series of Collections to Despatches for the Revenue, Separate Revenue and Revenue (Forests) departments for the period 1858-79.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For registers and indexes see IOR/Z/L/E/3. See also IOR/E/4 for earlier correspondence with India about revenue and related matters, IOR/L/E/6-10 for the later file copies of the correspondence (from 1880 onwards).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- British Library: Asian and African Studies
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 881 volumes
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Unrestricted
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Most of the correspondence series running down to 1858 belonged to the Board of Control and there are only a few volumes originating in the Examiner's Office of the East India Company. See also W. Foster A Guide to the India Office Records 1600-1858, (London, 1928), pp.16-17 and 25.
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Correspondence with India