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IOR/L/MIL/17
- Record Id:
- 036-000788810
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000788810
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000015.0x00030d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MIL/17
- Title:
- Military Department Library
- Scope & Content:
- 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 Department acted as a distribution point for certain official publications from India, such as the various runs of Army Lists, keeping its own reference sets of them. It also received relevant British publications together with a large number of confidential or secret prints produced in India or the UK, and purchased commercially published monographs. The collection, which was completely uncatalogued, was arranged in a series of cupboards according to broad subject or geographical divisions, e.g. British Army, Africa. The present arrangement reproduces these divisions, as follows: L/MIL/17/1 British Army L/MIL/17/2 Bengal Army L/MIL/17/3 Madras Army L/MIL/17/4 Bombay Army L/MIL/17/5 Indian Army L/MIL/17/6 Indian States Forces L/MIL/17/7 Burma Army L/MIL/17/8 Royal Navy L/MIL/17/9 Indian Navy L/MIL/17/10 Royal Air Force L/MIL/17/11 Miscellanea L/MIL/17/12 India, Bhutan & Sikkim, Ceylon L/MIL/17/13 North-West Frontier, Baluchistan L/MIL/17/14 Afghanistan, Central Asia, Tibet L/MIL/17/15 Iran, Iraq, Persian Gulf L/MIL/17/16 Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus L/MIL/17/17 Africa L/MIL/17/18 North-East Frontier L/MIL/17/19 Burma, South-East Asia L/MIL/17/20 China, Japan
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000256868
036-000788810 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/MIL : Records of the Military Department
IOR/L/MIL/17 : Military Department Library - Contains:
- IOR/L/MIL/17/1 : British Army
IOR/L/MIL/17/2 : Bengal Army
IOR/L/MIL/17/3 : Madras Army
IOR/L/MIL/17/4 : Bombay Army
IOR/L/MIL/17/5 : Indian Army
IOR/L/MIL/17/6 : Indian States Forces
IOR/L/MIL/17/7 : Burma Army
IOR/L/MIL/17/8 : Royal Navy
IOR/L/MIL/17/9 : Indian Navy
IOR/L/MIL/17/10 : Royal Air Force
IOR/L/MIL/17/11 : Miscellanea
IOR/L/MIL/17/12 : India, Bhutan & Sikkim, Ceylon
IOR/L/MIL/17/13 : North-West Frontier, Baluchistan
IOR/L/MIL/17/14 : Afghanistan, Central Asia, Tibet
IOR/L/MIL/17/15 : Iran, Iraq, Persian Gulf
IOR/L/MIL/17/16 : Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus
IOR/L/MIL/17/17 : Africa
IOR/L/MIL/17/18 : North-East Frontier
IOR/L/MIL/17/19 : Burma, South-East Asia
IOR/L/MIL/17/20 : China, Japan
Click here to View / search full list of parts of IOR/L/MIL/17 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000256868[0017]/036-000788810
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/MIL
- Record Type (Level):
- Series
- Extent:
- Approximately 10,000 items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1781
- End Date:
- 1952
- Date Range:
- c 1786-c 1947
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Publications:
- A J Farrington, Guide to the India Office Military Department (London, 1982), pp 201-396
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)