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1. IOR/L/PS

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS
Title:
Political and Secret Department Records
Scope & Content:
During the period of the East India Company and Board of Control (i.e. pre-1859) most of the records in this group - minutes, correspondence with India, and Home correspondence - originated either in the activities of the EIC Secret Committee (1784-1858) or in the work of the Secret and Political...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1756-c 1951
Extent:
Approx 13,246 volumes or files, and 318 boxes

2. IOR/L/PS/15

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/15
Title:
Honours Records
Scope & Content:
Honours and Protocol Records of the Political and Secret Department, India Office, the Political Aide-de-Camp etc.- the Honours relate mainly to awards given for service in British India - they cover both Asians and Europeans and include Imperial Honours as well as the specifically Indian ones. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1856-1947
Extent:
c 265 volumes/files

3. IOR/L/PS/16

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/16
Title:
Consular Papers
Scope & Content:
These papers deal with the creation of foreign consular posts in British India and Burma, their jurisdiction, the appointment of consular officials (both substantive and acting) and general consular matters - all appointments of foreign consular officials in India required the formal approval of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885-1930
Extent:
37 volumes

4. IOR/L/PS/17

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/17
Title:
Parliamentary Questions and Addresses
Scope & Content:
Contains two bundles of unregistered papers 1881-1892 and four volumes of registered papers 1893-1911
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1881-1911
Extent:
2 bundles, 4 volumes

5. IOR/L/PS/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/2
Title:
Secret Minutes of the Board of Control
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1785-1805
Extent:
2 volumes

6. IOR/L/PS/5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5
Title:
Secret Correspondence with India
Scope & Content:
Correspondence of the EIC Secret Committee, the Board of Control and the India Office with the Governments of Bengal/India, Madras and Bombay. Down to 1858 there are two broadly overlapping sets of Secret Letters received from each of the three Indian Governments - one of these sets belonged to t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1756-1874
Extent:
590 volumes, 10 boxes

7. IOR/L/PS/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6
Title:
Political Correspondence with India
Scope & Content:
Correspondence of the E I C Court of Directors and of the Secretary of State for India with the Governments of Bengal/India, Madras and Bombay. The main sub-series consist of Political Letters (In), Dispatches (Out) and Collections to Dispatches - also to be found (for the period 1808-1858) are t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1792-1874
Extent:
761 volumes

8. IOR/L/PS/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/3
Title:
Political and Secret Home Correspondence
Scope & Content:
The series consists of: (1) Home correspondence of the EIC Secret Committee 1807-1858; (2) Secret home correspondence of the Board of Control 1807-1839; (3) Secret Home Correspondence of the Board of Control 1839-1858 and of the India Office 1858-1874; (4) Political Home Correspondence of the Eas...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1807-1911
Extent:
356 volumes, 70 boxes

9. IOR/L/PS/7

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/7
Title:
Political and Secret Correspondence with India
Scope & Content:
Political and Secret Correspondence of the Secretary of State for India in Council with the Governments of India, Madras and Bombay. Correspondence relating to the Indian States 1881-1902 has been extracted from the volumes and arranged in boxes at the end of the series: see L/PS/7/357-429. Certa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1875-1911
Extent:
356 volumes, 71 boxes

10. IOR/L/PS/18

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18
Title:
Political and Secret Department Memoranda
Scope & Content:
These memoranda, mostly prepared by India Office, Foreign Office and Government of India officials, cover the whole field of the Political Department's interests ranging from East Africa to China, and including the Indian Princely States. They are divided into four sections according to area/subj...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1840-1947
Extent:
1329 items

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