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IOR/E/4
- Record Id:
- 036-001036642
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-001036642
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000015.0x0003d5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/E/4
- Title:
- Correspondence with India
- Scope & Content:
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Letters received by the Court of Directors are arranged in four great series:
- Letters from Bengal 1709-1834
- Letters from India and Bengal 1834-1858
- Letters from Madras 1709-1858
- Letters from Bombay 1709-1858.
There are also four series of Despatches sent by the Court to the same governments 1753-1858. There are also shorter sets of abstracts of letters and despatches.
Correspondence addressed to, or issued by, the Company's Secret Committee is usually, but not invariably, omitted from the various IOR/E/4 series after about 1787, but letters and despatches from all the other correspondence departments and branches established in the Company's London administration or in India are regularly included, eg: Commercial, Ecclesiastical, Educational, Financial, Foreign, Judicial, Law, Legislative, Marine, Military, Political, Post Office, Public, Public Works, Railway, Revenue, Separate Revenue, Telegraph.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001019174
036-001036642 - Is part of:
- IOR/E : East India Company General Correspondence.
IOR/E/4 : Correspondence with India - Contains:
- IOR/E/4/1-6 : Abstracts of letters received from 'Coast and Bay'
IOR/E/4/7-19 : Abstracts of letters received from Bengal
IOR/E/4/20-147 : Letters received from Bengal
IOR/E/4/148-288 : Letters received from India and Bengal
IOR/E/4/289-298 : Abstracts of Letters Received from Madras
IOR/E/4/299-448 : Letters Received from Madras
IOR/E/4/449-458 : Abstracts of Letters Received from Bombay
IOR/E/4/459-611 : Letters Received from Bombay
IOR/E/4/612-615 : Abstracts of Despatches to Bengal
IOR/E/4/616-739 : Despatches to Bengal (Original Drafts)
IOR/E/4/740-855 : Despatches to India and Bengal (Original Drafts)
IOR/E/4/856-860 : Abstracts of Despatches to Madras
IOR/E/4/861-991 : Despatches to Madras (Original Drafts)
IOR/E/4/992-995 : Abstracts to Despatches to Bombay
IOR/E/4/996-1112 : Despatches to Bombay (Original Drafts)
Click here to View / search full list of parts of IOR/E/4 - Hierarchy:
- 032-001019174[0004]/036-001036642
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/E
- Record Type (Level):
- Series
- Extent:
- 1112 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1703
- End Date:
- 1858
- Date Range:
- 1703-1858
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Publications:
- The Fort William - India House Correspondence, edited by K K Datta et al (Delhi: Indian Records Series, 1949-) prints the full text of mush of the correspondence between the Bengal Government and the Court of Directors, from the copies in the National Archives of India.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
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For correspondence addressed to, or issued by, the Company's Secret Committee, see IOR/L/PS/5.
In general, enclosures are not bound up in the IOR/E/4 series of letters received. For the location of these documents see the series IOR/F/4, IOR/L/F/3, IOR/L/MIL/3, IOR/L/PWD/3 or IOR/P, depending on the government and department concerned.
Elsewhere among the surviving archives of the Company and the Board of Control there are a number of other series made up of copies of the Company's correspondence with the Indian administrations, usually arranged by department. The principal series are included in IOR/F/3, IOR/L/E/3, IOR/L/F/3, IOR/L/MIL/3, IOR/L/PWD/3, IOR/L/PJ/3 and IOR/L/PS/4-6.
For indexes to the Court's Despatches included in IOR/E/4, see IOR/Z/E/4; for registers of Draft Despatches see IOR/Z/F/3.