‘Introductory Guide to the Government of India filing system’

Title:

‘Introductory Guide to the Government of India filing system’

Date:

1948/1953

Description:

The introductory guide, of which there are three identical copies in the file, comprises a set of explanatory notes describing the filing system used by the Government of India from the eighteenth century until 1948, followed by a subject index.The notes describe the arrangement and custodial history of the different series comprising the Indian Government archives, namely:1) the old series (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries);2) the A series (consisting of confidential and non-confidential files);3) the B series (consisting of non-confidential files);4) bound confidential files;5) unbound confidential files (c.1940-1948)The subject index that follows lists subjects alphabetically, alongside the A series file numbers, B series file numbers and confidential bound volume numbers.The file’s date range is based on the latest date given in the file’s contents (1948), and the known date of transfer of the Bushire files to the Foreign Office in London (1953).1 file (24 folios)The file includes three identical copies of the introductory guide, at folios 2-9, 10-17 and 18-25. The subject indexes in the guides are arranged in alphabetically ascending order.Foliation: The file is foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, using circled numbers found in the top-right corner of each recto. Some of the pages in the file have their own, original foliation system (folios 3-5, 11-13, 19-21).

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Extent:

1 file (24 folios)

Rights:

Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100022598738.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100022598738.0x000001_en
IOR/Z/R/15/1/7

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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