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General Indian directories: more work on annotation for Allen's Indian mail
==General Indian directories==
* ''Allen's The Indian mail: a monthly register for British and foreign India, China and Australasia''. [Online version] London: WH W.H. Allen, 1843-
This ''Allan's Indian Mail'' was a monthly newspaper formed as an offshoot of the ''Asiatic Journal''. It aimed to be as swiftly provide factual as possible offering articles with news sourced from 'every part of India, Ceylon, the Straits, China, Australasia, and the Cape of Good Hope'. An 'analytical index' supported the editors' intention of providing information of lasting value. Editions to 1857 are fully available on Google Books. See [[Directories_online#Allen.27s_Indian_Mail|our index to volumes]].

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