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Project / Collection India Office Records Level [32] Fonds

1. IOR/A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/A
Title:
Charters, Statutes and Treaties
Scope & Content:
Formal documents relating mainly to the rights and privileges of the East India Company; printed collections of charters, statutes and treaties; manuscript volumes of material relating to the renewals of the Company's charter. Parchment Record (IOR/A) 1 transferred to IOR/L/L/2/294, 15 transferre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1600-1947
Extent:
125 items and 27 volumes

2. IOR/B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/B
Title:
Minutes of the East India Company's Directors and Proprietors
Scope & Content:
The Court Minutes constitute the central record of the business transacted at meetings of the Court of Directors and of the General Court of Proprietors. The Minutes follow the pattern of annual elections to the Court of Directors with the administrative year running April to April. The minutes ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1599-1858
Extent:
275 volumes

3. IOR/C

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/C
Title:
Council of India
Scope & Content:
The main series, the Council Minutes running from 1858 to 1937, continues as the Minutes of the Advisers to the Secretary of State up to 1947. Since these minutes only record the work of the Council and the Advisers in a summary fashion, it is necessary to consult the archives of the main India O...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1858-1947
Extent:
144 volumes

4. IOR/D

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/D
Title:
Minutes and Memoranda etc of General Committees and Offices of the East India Company
Scope & Content:
The majority of these records belonged to, or were closely associated with, the Committee of Correspondence, and a series known as 'Auditor's References' comprising papers mainly relating to the financial claims of Company servants.. The Committee of Correspondence was the most important of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1700-1858
Extent:
263 volumes

5. IOR/E

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/E
Title:
East India Company General Correspondence.
Scope & Content:
This group of records comprises correspondence to and from the East India Company (1600-1858) and the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India (1784-1858) with the Company’s various settlements and Presidencies throughout Asia, government departments and European houses of agency. In ad...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1602-1859
Extent:
1655 volumes

6. IOR/F

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F
Title:
Records of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India
Scope & Content:
General records on all subjects.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1620-1859
Extent:
2889 volumes

7. IOR/G

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G
Title:
East India Company Factory Records
Scope & Content:
The records of the individual factories consist mainly of consultations (records of administrative decisions and of correspondence), diaries (records of daily activities), letters received, copies of letters sent and collections of papers on particular subjects.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1595-1858
Extent:
1,555 volumes and 18 boxes

8. IOR/H

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H
Title:
Home Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The range of subjects covered in Home Miscellaneous is extremely wide. The bulk of the material relates to the East India Company period and especially to trade; disputes involving Company servants; revenue, financial and judicial administration in India; and to military and diplomatic operations...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1600-1918
Extent:
849 volumes

9. IOR/I

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/I
Title:
Records relating to other Europeans in India
Scope & Content:
East India Company records relating to the French and Dutch in India, and transcripts and translations of documents from Dutch and Portuguese archives.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1475-1824
Extent:
214 volumes

10. IOR/J

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/J
Title:
Records of the East India College, Haileybury
Scope & Content:
These records relate mainly to the recruitment of the Company's writers and civil servants, including their admission to, and training at, the East India College. The majority of the records consist of the papers of applicants seeking employment in the Company's overseas civil service, both befor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1749-1857
Extent:
127 volumes