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  • India Office Records849,975
  • Royal Literary Fund74,699
  • India Office Private Papers24,239
  • Lansdowne Collection21,631
  • Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme15,496
  • Surrogates5,168
  • Additional Manuscripts3,950
  • India Office Medical Archives3,032
  • The Hume Family collection, Argentina1,565
  • Asian Biography521
  • Preserving East Timor's endangered archives: stage two477
  • Digital Documentary Resources in Nilgiri and Coimbatore378
  • The Ham Mukasa archive376
  • MacKenzie Collection327
  • Natural History Drawings310
  • Digitising the endangered historic records of Nevis in the Leeward Islands205
  • Botany in British India170
  • A pilot project aimed at the preservation of Pa'O religious and literary manuscripts132
  • Cotton Collection117
  • Harley Collection104
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