A particularly vast, valuable and accessible assembly of documents on all aspects of military policy and administration. The Military Collections, amounting to almost 20,000 files, represent stage 4 of the disposal alternatives outlined in the introduction to IOR/L/MIL/6. Collection 447 is lackin...
From 1882 papers coming into the Military Department had formerly been divided into Home Correspondence (L/MIL/2) and Correspondence with India (L/MIL/3), together with India Office minutes and memoranda relating to such papers, and copies of the replies to them, were brought together into a sing...
Miscellaneous and fragmentary collection of lists and returns for British Army Officers, NCOs and Other Ranks. The small amount of original material covering British Army units stationed in India is divided into the following sub-series: IOR/L/MIL/15/1-4 Officers of British Army regiments in Indi...
The series comprises the following sub-series: IOR/L/MIL/14/1-49 Indian Army Service Statements, 1892-1916 IOR/L/MIL/14/50-107 Promotions and Alterations in HM's Indian Army and other Indian Services, 1866-1947 IOR/L/MIL/14/108-127 Government of India Lists if Promotions, 1888-1935 IOR/L/MIL/14/1...
There are three sub-series of Military Home Correspondence: Two main sub-series comprise: [1] letters to which no answer was sent, or which were answered in printed form: IOR/L/MIL/2/1-720 Military Home Correspondence: Letters Received 1830-1860. The letters are arranged in the order of the date ...
The Presidency armies of Bengal, Madras and Bombay originated in small companies of European soldiers and locally enlisted Eurasian or Indian sepoys formed during the seventeenth century to guard the Company's factories. These early forces depended upon the Company's ships for artillery, they we...
Both the Military Department and the Political and Secret Department built up working reference collections, or 'libraries', which were housed within their offices in the India Office building and which was kept apart from the main India Office accumulation of Official Publications. The Military ...