India Office Lists

The India Office Lists are annual reference works giving details of departments and post holders in: the India Office, London, 1858-1947; the Burma Office, 1935-47; the Government of India, Calcutta, later Delhi, 1858-1947; the main provincial administrations of Bengal, Bombay and Madras and minor administrations for the same dates. From 1886, brief ‘Who’s Who’ biographies are included for senior post-holders. The Lists include military personnel until 1899, when a separate Indian Army List was begun.

The Lists were digitised in 2014 with funding from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. There are two copies of each List in the British Library holdings. One set can be found in the India Office Records under references IOR/V/6/125-247; the other set is available on the Open Access shelves in the Asian and African Studies Reading Room at reference OIR 354.54.

For conservation reasons, the OIR 354.54 copies were used for digitisation in the first instance, with IOR/V volumes used when pages were discovered to be damaged or missing. The physical volumes contain large numbers of advertisements which for copyright reasons were not included in the 2014 digitisation.

The Lists are Public Domain.

印度事务部名录（India Office Lists）为年度权威参考工具书，详细收录了以下机构的部门架构与在职人员信息：1858年至1947年伦敦印度事务部、1935年至1947年缅甸事务部、1858年至1947年初设于加尔各答、后迁至德里的印度政府，以及同期孟加拉、孟买、马德拉斯的主要省级行政机构与小型地方行政部门。自1886年起，该名录新增了高级在职人员的简短“名人录（Who’s Who）”式传记。其军事人员收录范围截至1899年，此后另设独立的《印度陆军名录》。

该名录于2014年在外交与联邦事务部（Foreign and Commonwealth Office）资助下完成数字化。大英图书馆馆藏中每份名录均有两套副本：一套收录于印度事务部档案，馆藏编号为IOR/V/6/125-247；另一套可在亚洲与非洲研究阅览室的开放阅览架上查阅，馆藏编号为OIR 354.54。

出于文物保护考量，数字化工作优先采用OIR 354.54编号的副本进行，当发现书页受损或缺失时，则使用IOR/V系列馆藏卷册补全。实体馆藏卷册中包含大量广告内容，受版权限制，这些内容未被纳入2014年的数字化项目。

该名录属于公有领域（Public Domain）。