Guides and Bibliographies

Indian year book & who's who. Bombay, Bennett, Coleman & Co., v. 1-33; 1914-1947.
HOLLIS Record

Continued by: Indian and Pakistan yearbook and who's who, 1948-1953.
HOLLIS Record

Guides to Collections: Selected highlights of the SAMP collection, CRL. Available via Interlibrary Loan.

Official Publications of India: Government Publications Related to Pre-and Post Independence South Asia (Catalog)

Catalogue of the European manuscripts in the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library, by David M. Blake. London : British Library, 1998, 725 p.
Widener | WID-LC | DS463.Z99 B75 1998x

A list and index of parliamentary papers relating to India, 1908-1947, by J. M. Sims. London : India Office Library and Records, 1981, 129 p.
Documents (Lamont) | Ind Doc 102.11.5

Picturing India : people, places and the world of the East India Company, by John McAleer. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2017, 217 pages
HOLLIS record

Descriptive catalogue of the Secret and Departmental series, 1755-1820, by V. G. Dighe. 
Bombay (India : State). Directorate of Archives. Bombay : Govt. Central Press, 1954, 652 pp.
Bombay records series. Descriptive catalogue. v. 1
Subjects
East India Company -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.
Archives -- India -- Mumbai.
Bombay (India : State) -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.
HOLLIS Record

Science and the changing environment in India, 1780-1920: a guide to sources in the India Office Records, by Richard Axelby and Savithri Preetha Nair. London: The British Library, 2010, 287 p.
HOLLIS Record

A guide to manuscripts and documents in the British Isles relating to South and South-East Asia, by J.D. Pearson. London; NY: Mansell Pub. Ltd., 1989-1990.
Widener | WID-LC | CD1048.A8 P43 1989
v. 1. London -- v. 2. British Isles (excluding London).

Which supplements:
A guide to Western manuscripts and documents in the British Isles relating to South and South East Asia, by M. D. Wainwright and Noel Matthews. London, NY: Oxford University Press, 1965, 532 p.
History Dept | Hist 4900.401
Widener | B 3503.25

Document Collections

General

The Indian year book. Bombay, Bennett, Coleman & Co., v. 1-33; 1914-1947.
HOLLIS Record   ---   HathiTrust Full Text (1920-1928)   ---   Internet Archive Full Text (1914-1947)
--Includes Who's Who in India.

Continued by: Indian and Pakistan yearbook and who's who, 1948-1953.
HOLLIS Record

Area studies: India

  • Colonial discourses: series 3: colonial fiction, 1712-1933
  • Curzon, India and empire: the papers of Lord Curzon (1859-1925) from the British Library, London
  • The empire writes back: part one: Indian views on Britain and empire, 1810-1915, from the British Library, London
  • India during the Raj: eyewitness accounts: diaries and related records describing life in India, 1712-1925
  • India in the age of empire: the journals of Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1812-1881) from the Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • Indian newspaper reports, c. 1868-1942.

Digital Colonial Documents (India) offers census (1871-1901), East India Company documents, and personal reports.

British Voices from South Asia

Gazettes of India 1808, 1838- (incomplete)

Britain in India, 1765-1905, ed. by John Marriott, Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay. London; Brookfield, Vt.: Pickering & Chatto, 2006. 6 v.
Link to HOLLIS record
Widener | WID-LC | DS463 .B75 2006x
--v. 1. Justice, police, law and order -- v. 2. Land revenue and trade -- v. 3. Education and colonial knowledge -- v. 4. Cultural and social interventions -- v. 5. Sovereignty and governance -- v. 6. The public realm.

The empire writes back. 26 microfilm reels  Included in: Area studies: India
Location : Microforms (Lamont) Film A 1199
Location : Microforms (Lamont) INDEX Film A 1199 = guide
--Incomplete contents : pt. 1. Indian views on Britain and Empire, 1810-1915, from the British Library, London (10 reels) -- pt. 2. Black and Asian visitors to Britain, 1734-1942, from the British Library
--Includes memoirs of Indian visitors to Britain. Most were published in India.
--Online guide

India, Raj & Empire (1710-1947) includes diaries and journals, official and private papers, letters, sketches, paintings and original Indian documents containing histories and literary works. Scots played a central role as traders, generals, missionaries, viceroys, governor-generals and East India Company officials and the material is drown from manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland.

India during the Raj: eyewitness accounts: diaries and related records held in the British Library, London. <74 > microfilm reels. Included in: Area studies: India
-- pt. 1. Diaries and related records describing life in India, c1750-1842 (reels 1-25)
-- pt. 2. Diaries and related records, c1819-1859 from the British Library, London (reels 1-29)
-- pt. 3. Diaries and related records, 1861-1891 from the British Library, London (reels 1-20)
Microforms (Lamont) | Film A 1305
Microforms (Lamont) | INDEX Film A 1305 = guide
Online Guide

Documents on economic history of British rule in India, 1858-1947, ed. by Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Arun Bandopadhyay. New Delhi : Indian Council of Historical Research : Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2009-
--pt. 1. Eastern India in the late nineteenth century, 1860s-1870s
--pt. 2. Eastern India in the late nineteenth century, 1880s- 1890s
Widener | WID-LC | HC435 .D63 2009x

Statistical Abstract Relating to British India (1840-1920)

Survey operations in unadministrated areas of Assam and Burma, 1935-1936 / report of L.C. Bull; diary of E.T.D. Lambert. Leiden, Netherlands: IDC, [2004?]. 4 microfiches
--Burma and Assam: Report of L.C. Bull, Assam Rifles, Commanding Survey Escort and diary of Mr. E.T.D. Lambert, Indian Police, political officer attached to no. 15, survey party
Location : Microforms (Lamont) Microfiche W 6069

Internet Indian History Sourcebook

Women in Colonial India: historical documents and sources, ed. by Pramod K. Nayar. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013. 5 volumes
HOLLIS Record
Contents: Volume 1. The woman question -- Volume 2. Female infanticide -- Volume 3. Sati -- Volume 4. Education -- Volume 5. Health and marriage.

Medical History of British India offers reports related to disease, public health and medical research between around 1850 to 1950

East India Company

Selections from Calcutta gazettes ... showing the political and social condition of the English in India .., by W.S. Seton-Karr. Calcutta, Printed at the Military Orphan Press by O.T. Cutter, 1864-1959. 6 v. 
v. 1. 1784-1788.--v. 2. 1789-1797.--v. 3. 1798-1805.--v. 4. 1806-1815.--v. 5. 1816-1823.--v. 6. The days of John Company, 1824-1832. 
HOLLIS Record

Fort William-India House correspondence and other contemporary papers relating thereto. National Archives of India. Delhi, Manager of Publications, 1949-1985. 21 v. 
Vols. 1-13: Public series, 1748-1800 -- vol. 15-18: Foreign and secret series, 1752-1800 -- vol. 19-21: Military series, 1787-1800. 
HOLLIS Record
Fort William (Kolkata) was the headquarters of Bengal Presidency (1757–1912)

East India Company (India Office Records from the British Library, 1595-1947) 
HOLLIS Record (Online resource)

Liverpool papers. Vols. 208-226, Letters and papers relating to the administration of the East India Company and to the affairs of India in general, 1758-1827. London: British Library, 2005. 19 v. on 16 microfilm reels.
Microforms (Lamont) | Film A 1272
Brief contents on HOLLIS record
--Includes correspondence (1776-1788) from Sir Robert Chambers concerning opposition to Warren Hastings on the Council in Bengal.

East India Company factory records: sources from the British Library, London. Currently 6 pts. on 141 microfilm reels.
Location : Microforms (Lamont) Film A 1325
Online guide
--Pt. 1. China and Japan (34 reels) -- pt. 2. China (34 reels) -- pt. 3. Fort St. George, Madras (25 reels) -- pt. 4. Fort St. George (Madras) (25 reels) -- pt. 5. Calcutta (9 reels) -- pt. 6. Bombay, 1669-1710 (14 reels). From the Oriental and India Office Collections, British Library. --“Factories” = trading posts.

India Office (In London)

Afghanistan in 1919: The Third Anglo-Afghan War. From the India Office records.

The Indian Army and Colonial Warfare on the Frontiers of India, 1914-1920 concerns the area between India and Afghanistan. Includes over 5,000 images and a wide variety of military records and regimental histories. From the British Library

British intelligence on the North-West Frontier, 1901-1949 : India Office political and secret reports on tribes and terrorism. 33 microfilm reels
HOLLIS Record http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/013680709/catalog
Online Guide http://www.idcpublishers.com/ead/557.xml

Indian Political Intelligence (IPI) files, 1912-1950 624 microfiches.
Microforms (Lamont) | INDEX Microfiche W 6028 = guide
Microforms (Lamont) | Microfiche W 6028
--HOLLIS record with brief description/contents
--Online guide
--Material on the monitoring of organizations and individuals considered subversive.

The Transfer of power 1942-7, ed. by Nicholas Mansergh and E. W. R. Lumby. London : H.M.S.O., 1970-1983. 12 v.
HOLLIS Record with brief volume contents
Law School | DS480.83 .T7
Widener | Ind325.125
--Unpublished documents drawn either from the official archives of the India Office or from the Viceregal papers in the India Office Library.

Great Britain. India Office. India Office records, home miscellaneous series, 1631-1859. 334 microfilm reels.
CRL (Ctr for Research Libs) | [To obtain CRL items, submit an Interlibrary Loan request via your home library]
Index and Reel Guide
Online version manuscripts 633, 723-728

Described in: Catalogue of the Home Miscellaneous Series of the India Office records, by Samuel Charles Hill. London: Printed by H.M. Stationery Off. for the India Office, 1927, 682 p.
Widener | Ind 300.3.10

Government of India (In India)

India. Imperial Legislative Council. Proceedings. Calcutta, Superintendent Gov't. Print. [etc.]; 1854-1920.
Notes: Vols. for 1854-61 numbered also v. 1-7; vols. for 1862-1920, [new ser.] v. 1-59.
Issued 1862-1915/16, by the Council of the Governor General of India
Superseded by Council of State. Debates; and Legislative Assembly. Debates.
HOLLIS Record

Confidential publications and Home political files. New Delhi : National Archives of India. 19 microfilm reels.
--Colonial era records.
HOLLIS Record

Districts and De-Regulationised Tracts, and notifications declaring enactments in force in, or extending enactments to, such districts and tracts, and a full index, ed. by W.S. Coutts. 1st ed. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1917-1920. 
--Contents:  v. I. Bengal regulations, local acts of the governor general of India in Council, and regulations made under the Government of India act, 1870 -- v. II. Bengal acts, 1862 to 1890 -- v. III. Bengal acts, 1891 to 1912; Bihar and Orissa acts, 1913 to 1915 -- v. IV. Tables, lists, notes, notifications, B. & O. acts, 1915-18, and index.  Print version: HOLLIS Record
 

Selections from the state papers of the governors-general of India, edited by G. W. Forrest. Oxford, B. H. Blackwell ; London, Constable & co., ltd., 1910-26. 4 v.
HOLLIS Record
--Contents: I. Warren Hastings. Introduction; II. Warren Hastings. Documents; III. Lord Cornwallis. Introduction; IV. Lord Cornwallis. Documents. 

Selections from the letters, despatches, and other state papers preserved in the Bombay secretariat, edited by George W. Forrest. Bombay : Government Central Press, 1885. 1 v. in 3 pts.
"The object of these volumes is to trace ... the history of the Maráthás from their founder Shiváji ... to their defeat by ... Wellington"--Pref., v.1, --pt.1.  HOLLIS Record

Selections from the letters, despatches and other state papers preserved in the Military department of the government of India, 1857-58, ed. by George W. Forrest. Calcutta : Military department press, 1893-
Subjects: India -- History -- Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858 -- Sources
Vol. 1. Delhi -- v. 2-3. Lucknow and Cawnpore -- v. 4. Central India (not available). 
HathiTrust Version

Selections from the letters, despatches and other state papers preserved in the Foreign Department of the government of India, 1772-1785, ed. by George W. Forrest. Calcutta, Printed by the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1890. 3 v.
HathiTrust Version
Location:  Law School Harvard Depository IN 905.01 FOR  
Location:  Widener Ind 325.15 F

Selections from the minutes and other official writings of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, governor of Bombay: with an introductory memoir, ed. by George W. Forrest. London: R. Bentley and Son, 1884, 578 p.
Widener  |  Ind 6540.8
Google Books version

Selections from the records of the government of India. 2 pts. on 997 microfiches.
pt. 1: microfiches 1-857. Selections from the records of the government of India
pt. 2: microfiches 858-997. Selections from the records of the Bengal government
Reprint of original documents published: 1851-1919.
Microforms (Lamont) | Microfiche W 3292.1
Indexed in: Selections from the records of the government of India, 1849-1933 / editor, John Sims. 1987, 162 p.
Microforms (Lamont) | INDEX Microfiche W 3292
--Brief description

Publications proscribed by the government of India. 35 microfilm reels.
CRL (Ctr for Research Libs) | To obtain CRL items, submit an Interlibrary Loan request. HOLLIS number, 010313463, to put on Request form

Included publications listed in:
Publications proscribed by the government of India; a catalogue of the collections in the India Office Library and Records and the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books, British Library Reference Division, ed. by Graham Shaw and Mary Lloyd. London: British Library, 1985, 203 p.
Link to HOLLIS record
Widener | WID-LC | Z1019 .P83 1985

Raj and literature: banned Bengali books, by Hiranmoy Bhattacharya. Calcutta: Firma KLM, 1989, 229 p.
Link to HOLLIS record
Widener | Harvard Depository | Z658.I4 B49 1989 Consult Circ. Desk for HWDLW6
-- On the censorship and bibliography of proscribed Bengali books during the British rule in India.

Foreign Office (1947- )

Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (1947-1980) offers material from the DO 133, DO 134, FO 371 and FCO 37 files from The National Archives.
--Section I: Independence, Partition and the Nehru Era, 1947-64
--Section II: South Asian Conflicts and Independence for Bangladesh, 1964-71
--Section III: Afghanistan and the Cold War, Emergency Rule in India, and the Resumption of Civilian Rule in Pakistan, 1972-80

Personal Papers

Digital Colonial Documents (India) offers census (1871-1901), East India Company documents, and personal reports.Gazettes of India, 1808, 1838- (incomplete)

Selections from the state papers of the governors-general of India, edited by G. W. Forrest. Oxford, B. H. Blackwell ; London, Constable & co., ltd., 1910-26. 4 v.
Location:  Widener Ind 715.4
--Contents: I. Warren Hastings. Introduction; II. Warren Hastings. Documents; III. Lord Cornwallis. Introduction; IV. Lord Cornwallis. Documents.

Selections from the minutes and other official writings of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, governor of Bombay: with an introductory memoir, ed. by George W. Forrest. London: R. Bentley and Son, 1884, 578 p.
Widener  |  Ind 6540.8
Google Books version

India in the age of Empire: the journals of Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1812-1881) from the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 11 microfilm reels. Included in: Area studies: India
Microforms (Lamont) | Film A 1185
Microforms (Lamont) | INDEX Film A 1185 = guide
Online Guide

The papers of Clive of India, from the National Library of Wales
HOLLIS record
Online guide
Microforms (Lamont) | Film A 1383
Microforms (Lamont) | INDEX Film A 1383 = guide

Curzon, India and empire: the papers of Lord Curzon (1859-1925) from the Oriental and India Office collections at the British Library, London. 6 pts. on 29 microfilm reels. Included in: Area studies: India
Microforms (Lamont) | Film A 1326
Online Guide

The Indian papers of the 4th Earl of Minto: including his service on the North West Frontier during the Afghan War of 1879 and as Viceroy, 1905-1910
HOLLIS record
Online guide
Microforms (Lamont) | Film A 1395
Microforms (Lamont) | INDEX Film A 1395 = guide

The Indian correspondence of Brigadier-General John Carnac (1716-1800) at the National Library of Wales
HOLLIS record
Online guide
Microforms (Lamont) | Film A 1394

Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) was administered by the Colonial Office, not the India Office.  Therefore there should be annual summaries in the Colonial Office List showing reports emanating from Ceylon by year.

Department of Census and Statistics Sri Lanka Digital Library

Annual general report on the economic, social, and general conditions of the island. Ceylon. Department of Commerce and Industries. 
–Issues for -1925 issued by the Colonial Secretary's Office; 1926-27, compiled by the Dept. of Statistics and Office Systems; 1928-38, compiled from the reports of the government departments (1935-36, by the Dept. of the Registrar-General and Director of Commercial Intelligence; 1937-38, by the Dept. of Commerce and Industries)
After 1938 incorporated into the Ceylon yearbook, the 1948 issue of which surveys briefly the interim period, 1939-46.
HOLLIS Record (1921-1938 incomplete)