Over 2.5 million British India records digitized and searchable online

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 13, 2014|History, South Asia|0 comments

A partnership between the British Library and ‘Findmypast’ has made over 2.5 million family history records from the India Office Records accessible online. The digitized documents reveal a vast amount about the lives of the British in India from 1698 to 1947 including: careers and domestic life, the lives of women in India, records of baptisms, marriages, wills and burials and civil and military pensions. The indexes can be accessed

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South Asia – January 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 7, 2014|South Asia|0 comments

Metallic modern: everyday machines in colonial Sri Lanka / Nira Wickramasinghe. The Tamils in India, Ceylon and Malaya / by R. Visvanathan P. J. K. Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition / edited by Robert Harms, Bernard K. Freamon and David W. Blight. Anglicanism and South India / by Leonard Hodgson. Breaking the bow : speculative fiction inspired by the Ramayana / edited by Anil Menon, Vandana Singh

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