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IOR/P

Record Id:: 032-000898102
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:: 032-000898102
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Format:: ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/P
Title:: Proceedings and Consultations of the Government of India and of its Presidencies and Provinces
Scope & Content:: Copies of correspondence, minutes, resolutions etc of the Government of India and various provincial governments in India.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Project / Collection:: India Office Records
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Contains:: IOR/P/1/1-P/444/53 : Proceedings: "Range" series
IOR/P/1-12828 : Proceedings: "Non-Range" series
IOR/P/A-G : Proceedings: Secret, with Military Journals and Ledgers
IOR/P/BEN/SEC-MAD/SEC : Proceedings: Secret
IOR/P/CONF : Proceedings: Confidential
IOR/Z/P : Indexes to the Proceedings

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Hierarchy:: 032-000898102
Container:: not applicable
Record Type (Level):: Fonds
Extent:: c 46,500 volumes
Digitised Content:
Languages:: English
Scripts:: Latin
Start Date:: 1702
End Date:: 1945
Date Range:: 1702-1945
Era:: CE
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Administrative Context:: This huge group is made up of bound copies of some of the main records of the central and provincial governments in India supplied for the information of the East India Company and the India Office. Together they generally provide the fullest and most detailed account of the unfolding of events and policies in the sub-continent available in the India Office Records. From the beginning of the 18th century down to 1860 the majority of these records are known as Consultations. They usually comprise full manuscript copies of the official correspondence (both letters received and sent), minutes and resolutions considered or approved by the governments concerned: India, Bengal, Madras, Bombay, and Agra/North-Western Provinces. In addition copies of certain related records (such as letter books, commercial reports, journals and ledgers, and proceedings of local law courts) were also returned to London during the Company period, and are now included in the P group. In 1860 the old-style Indian consultations were discontinued and replaced by a new form of record usually referred to as Proceedings. The Proceedings of the Indian governments were then classified according to importance, with the more significant or policy matters categorised as Part A while the more routine subjects were classed as Part B. From then on only the part A items were reported to London in full in the form of monthly printed copies of the relevant government correspondence, resolutions, etc. The Part B proceedings by contrast were only transmitted in the form of very brief tabular summaries, also at monthly intervals. Another way in which the new printed Proceedings as sent to the India Office differed from the old manuscript Consultations consists in the general omission from the Proceedings of minutes recorded by individual members of the Indian executive councils or their officials. From 1860 onwards Proceedings arranged in the new way were regularly received from the Government of India and the provincial governments - Bengal, Madras, Bombay, and the North-Western Provinces, though those from Bombay initially took a slightly different form. By 1871, the practice of sending printed Proceedings to London was also extended to the newer provincial governments - Punjab, the Central Provinces, and Burma - and later to Assam, and Bihar and Orissa. Some earlier records from Punjab and the Central Provinces are also present. There are also a few brief series from certain minor administrations: the Hyderabad Assigned Districts, Mysore and Coorg, the Chief Engineer in the North-West Frontier Province, and the Superintendent of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Thus adopted throughout most of British India, records of the Proceedings type continued to be printed and sent to the India Office down to 1920 with only minor variations in form. After 1921, with the Government of India's introduction of the new filing system recommended by the Llewelyn Smith Committee report (1919), and with the growth too of provincial autonomy, the transmission to London of records of the Proceedings type was gradually discontinued.
Publications:: William Foster, A Guide to the India Office Records 1600-1858 (London, 1919).; National Archives of India, Guide to the Records of the National Archives of India (10 volumes), (1959-)
Material Type:: Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:: Public Record(s)
Related Material:: For earlier Consultations: see East India Company Factory Records, IOR/G