Public and Judicial Departmental Papers: Annual Files

This series includes the unbound files of the successive India Office departments concerned with 'Public and Judicial' subjects i.e. Public and Judicial (1931-41) Political (1941-44) Political (British India) (1944-47) Political (General) (1946-47) Some files of the Political (States) Department (1941-47) are also included. Subjects covered include: aliens; appeals for mercy; Arms Act Rules; bills and Acts (Indian); broadcasting; civil uniforms; Commonwealth; constitutional reforms; convicts (removal to and from India); courts; destitute Indians in Britain and abroad; ecclesiastical questions; emigration and Indians overseas; evacuees and internees during Second World War; Executive and Legislative Councils; extradition; films; Government houses; Governors-General (appointments, allowances etc); Imperial Conferences; Indian States; internal political conditions (including sedition and disturbances); jails; law and legislation; local self-government; Moral and Material Progress reports; Muslim pilgrims; nationality; passports; political prisoners; political movements; press prosecutions and seizures; Privy Council appeals; territorial waters; wild animals (destruction and protection). [ for File 4256/1946 see IOR/L/PJ/7/15822; for File 4322/1946 see IOR/L/PJ/7/15824]. Numbers not used: IOR/L/PJ/7/3279; IOR/L/PJ/7/4563; IOR/L/PJ/7/4692; IOR/L/PJ/7/4757; IOR/L/PJ/7/4814; IOR/L/PJ/7/4894; IOR/L/PJ/7/4972; IOR/L/PJ/7/5558; IOR/L/PJ/7/5864; IOR/L/PJ/7/5914; IOR/L/PJ/7/6111; IOR/L/PJ/7/6176; IOR/L/PJ/7/6224; IOR/L/PJ/7/6631; IOR/L/PJ/7/6653. Files lacking: IOR/L/PJ/7/3248-9, IOR/L/PJ/7/12079, IOR/L/PJ/7/12085, IOR/L/PJ/7/12106, IOR/L/PJ/7/12228, IOR/L/PJ/7/12293, IOR/L/PJ/7/12406, IOR/L/PJ/7/12407, IOR/L/PJ/7/12410, IOR/L/PJ/7/12423, IOR/L/PJ/7/12440, IOR/L/PJ/7/12443, IOR/L/PJ/7/12460-2, IOR/L/PJ/7/12466, IOR/L/PJ/7/12471, IOR/L/PJ/7/12473-4, IOR/L/PJ/7/12477, IOR/L/PJ/7/12479-80, IOR/L/PJ/7/12490, IOR/L/PJ/7/12498, IOR/L/PJ/7/12503, IOR/L/PJ/7/12507, IOR/L/PJ/7/12513, IOR/L/PJ/7/12516, IOR/L/PJ/7/12523, IOR/L/PJ/7/12528-31, IOR/L/PJ/7/12534, IOR/L/PJ/7/12536, IOR/L/PJ/7/12542, IOR/L/PJ/7/12563, IOR/L/PJ/7/12567, IOR/L/PJ/7/12578-81, IOR/L/PJ/7/12583-4, IOR/L/PJ/7/12590, IOR/L/PJ/7/12593-5, IOR/L/PJ/7/12597-99.

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The file series was continued by the Commonwealth Relations Office Division B for a few years after the dissolution of the India Office in August 1947. Selected files were transferred to the Commonwealth Relations Office and later to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.