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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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Reference
IOR/L/E/3
Title
Correspondence with India
Date
1792-1938
Description

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.

Related material

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).

Held by
British Library: Asian and African Studies
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
881 volumes
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Unrestricted

Administrative / biographical background

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