The India Papers

The India Papers
Housed atThe National Library of Scotland
CuratorsCurator (Social Sciences)
Size (no. of items)4,200+ bound volumes (40,000+ individual reports)
Websitenls.uk/indiapapers

The India Papers collection is an archive containing roughly 4,200 bound volumes (40,000 individual reports)[1] dated from the post-Mutiny reorganisation of the Indian government up until Indian Independence in 1947 and is essentially a collection of almost all things relating to British India. There are large sections devoted to the state's medical history, human rights, military history, education, industry and trade, travel, politics, religion, arts, and various other subjects. Notable documents in the archive include important documentation concerning eye-witness accounts of the Partition riots and the police reports on Gandhi's political meetings.[2] The rare collection is held at the National Library of Scotland (NLS) in Edinburgh, Scotland.[3] Only one other collection of similar size and content can be found in the UK, the India Office Records, which are held at the British Library in London.[4][5] The India Papers are complemented further by more the substantial collections in India and in the United States.

  1. ^ Usher, Jan. "The Medical History of British India Online Project" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Cannabis and Empire" (PDF). Folio.
  3. ^ Dysert, Anna. "Spotlight on: Medical History of British India | De re medica". Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  4. ^ "India Office Records and Private Papers". The British Library. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
  5. ^ "Background to the Collection - Medical History of British India - National Library of Scotland". digital.nls.uk. Retrieved 2020-08-24.