Records compiled in the Accountant General’s Department connected with currency reserves and exchange equalisation, in liaison with the Financial Department
East India Company and India Office Ledgers and Journals
Scope & Content:
The ledgers and journals are a series of complementary books of main accounts of the home administrations, although they also contain details of some translations with originated overseas e.g. trading transactions at the factories, and receipts and payments which were included in the Indian remi...
Powers of attorney, bonds of indemnity and other legal instruments
Scope & Content:
All Powers of Attorney contain the current address of the signatory. This is especially useful for the period 1838-c.1875 when home addresses are generally missing from pension payment books etc. They begin to appear regularly in pension payment books from c.1875 onwards.
Superseded Registers and Indexes of the Accountant General's Department
Scope & Content:
No general list or index of the records prior to that of 1884 referred to below has been found. But Home Miscellaneous Volume 722 (H/722) holds the papers of the Committee appointed in 1860 to consider the destruction of useless records (see page vii of Foster's Guide to the India Office Records,...
East India Home and Finance and Revenue Accounts presented to Parliament
Scope & Content:
Printed volumes of Home and Finance and Revenue final accounts, plus the accounts of the central and provincial governments in India and, for the earlier years, the accounts of the Company's administrations in St Helena, Canton, Bencoolen and Penang. The years shown are calendar years in which...
Pay and allowances of the civil and military services of India and Burma
Scope & Content:
Records of the issues of leave, furlough and duty pay, allotments of pay, marriage and separation allowances, overseas pay, war gratuities and miscellaneous effective allowances to members of the civil and military services of India and Burma. For many of the volumes in this series the dates of...