Dr Antonia Moon (Lead Curator, post-1858 India Office Records): ‘Introduction to the India Office Records’

1. India Office Records: an
overview
Antonia Moon

2. India Office Records
and Private Papers
East India Company
1600-1858
Board of Control
1784-1858
India Office
1858-1947
Burma Office
1937-1948
India Office
Private Papers

3. Geographical scope
South Asia
Africa
South East Asia
East Asia
Middle East
Central Asia
Caribbean
Fiji

4. MAIN SUBJECTS COVERED
Commercial and
cultural exchange
Indian diaspora
Political history
Military history
Imperial history
Economic history
Maritime history
London history
Family history
Science and
technology
Transport
Medicine and public
health
Environment
Climate
Linguistics
Ethnography
Mapping

5. Plants and Botanic Gardens
Agriculture
Forestry
Animals and animal husbandry
Geology
Meteorology
Health and Disease
Irrigation and water control
Communications
Ethnography
Landscape and topography

6. 12 What appearances were
presented on opening the bodies
of those who sunk under the
disease in its different stages.
13. Of those attacked did a
greater number recover of such
as took Medicine than of those
who did not?
14. What mode of cure was most
generally successful?
15. Did bleeding appear to
produce beneficial effects?...
IOR/P/28/39 f.5
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Health and Disease: digitised
records

7. www.bl.uk
Word Error Rate and Character Error Rate
WER: 10.948905
CER: 6.32114
With new General HTR

8. Map of
deaths from
cholera in
Amritsar,
1869
IOR/P/434/45

9. 9
Map to
illustrate the
progress of
cholera in
connection
with the
return of
pilgrims from
Hurdwar Fair,
1867
IOR/V/24/3620 (165)

12. Old Court House, Calcutta, 1804
Artist Francis Swain

13. Uncatalogued legal
records, especially Privy
Council appeals from
India

14. Further information
– Archive and Manuscript catalogue
– ior@bl.uk
– Twitter @untoldlives