Indian Army List online: Difference between revisions

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British Library catalogue entry for Indian Army List ‎ (1889-1947) IOR/L/MIL/17/5/1-219 includes a description of the frequency of publications at various periods and the editions which include War Services. For some years, a Supplement which contained war services of Indian Officers was published in January.

The following are links (as at mid September 2015), to catalogue pages on the Digital Library of India, which contain pdfs to view/open. Most are recent additions from the Library of the United Service Institution of India, where the scanning quality of the digital files is good. However there are some older digital files where the scanning quality is very poor. Perhaps more editions may be added in the future. These are large Adobe pdfs. If you have problems downloading, try during Indian office hours (IST 10 am to 6 pm) (IST = GMT+5:30), or GMT 4.30 to 12.30.

Researchers have commented: "Some of the 1943-1946 files are very large - over 1Gb - and the Indian server is slow. Each of these large files can take an hour or so to download, depending on the speed of your connection. Early morning UK time seems to be the best time for a faster download".^[1] Subsequently another researcher advised "...the downloads are coming in much faster now. Approx. 20-30 mins per file".^[2] "While I can't download to my iPad, they work fine on the desktop".^[3]. A comment in User's Feedback on the Digital Library of India website in March 2016 indicated that downloads could be to desktop/tablets and "We will surely work on mobile application to read the books online".

Catalogue descriptions are sometimes minimal. For some entries, two links are given. If the number of pages for each file is the same, these files may be duplicate editions. If the page numbers differ, they are likely to be different Parts, which have not been cataloged as such.

As stated previously, the following links do not directly open the pdfs.

Note: Most volumes have an Index of names at the back of the book. Currently (September 2015) the pdfs are not searchable.

Update: January 2017: Many books from the Digital Library of India collection have been, or will be, uploaded to the Internet Archive, Archive.org, including Indian Army Lists. Some books have the facility to be read online, but to date, this does not include the Indian Army Lists. However, it is understood this facility will be added as the files are fully processed.

1802-1859

See Directories online - East-India Register & Directory

1864+

See Directories online - India List and India Office List

Note that for viewers in Britain and some other countries, there are limited Lists available online from 1877, and microfilms may be an alternative method of access, see FamilySearch microfilms, located under the section Directories online - India List and India Office List.

1890-1899

		1890-July	1890-October
		1891-July Archive.org	1891-October Archive.org
1893-January Archive.org	1893- April	1893- July Archive.org
	1894-April
1895-January Archive.org		1895-July	1895-October
	1896-April Archive.org
1897-January Archive.org	1897-April Archive.org
	1899-April Archive.org

1900-1909

1900-January Archive.org
1901-January	1901-April	1901-July	1901-November Archive.org
1902-January, No 5 1902-February	1902 April Archive.org 1902-May Archive.org	1902-July	1902-October
1905-January Archive.org Catalogued incorrectly. Should be January 1905	1905- April Archive.org	1905-July	1905-October Archive.org
		1907-July Archive.org
			1908-October Archive.org
1909-January Archive.org			1909-October

1910-1919

		1910-July
1911-January Archive.org
1912-January	1912-April	1912-July Archive.org	1912-October Archive.org
1913- January	1913- April Archive.org		1913-October Archive.org
1914-January	1914-Aprll		1914-October Archive.org
1915-January	1915-April Archive.org	1915-July
1916-January
1917-January		1917-July
		1918- July
	1919-April Archive.org	1919-July

1920-1929

1920-January	1920-April Archive.org
	1921 -April Available from FamilySearch #	1921-July
1922-January
	1923–April		1923-October
1924- January Supplement			1924-October
		1925-July	1925-October Archive.org
	1926-April Catalogued incorrectly. Should be 1926	1926-July, 905 pages 1926-July, 905 pages
1927-January 1927-January Supplement Archive.org	1927-April
	1928-April
	1929-April	1929- July

#Refer Directories online for some other online editions of the Indian Army List.

1930-1939

		1930- July	1930-October Archive.org
1931- January Archive.org		1931-July
	1933-April Archive.org		1933-October
			1934-October
			1935-October
		1936-July	1936-October Archive.org
1937-January Supplement Archive.org Also contains 1937-April
	1938- April		1938-October Archive.org
1939-January Supplement	1939-April Incomplete - ends at page 292-293. Around 500+ pages and the index are missing.		1939-October Archive.org

1940-1947

		1940- July, 933 pages 1940-July, 933 pages
1941-January		1941-July	1941-October
		1942-July, 1801 pages 1942-July,1801 pages
	1943 April: Parts 1 and 2 Archive.org Incomplete - missing pages 937-1380		1943-October: Part 1 1943-October Part 2
	1944-April: Part 2, 1242 pages Archive.org 1944-April: Part 2, 1051 pages *		1944-October: Part 2
	1945-April: Part 1 Archive.org Probably incomplete.		1945-October: Part 1 1945-October: Part 2 Archive.org
	1946-April: Part 2 Archive.org		1946-October: Part 2, 1617 pages@ 1946-October: Part 2, 1199 pages
		1947- August Special Edition Incomplete-missing at least pages 114-140 & 147 - 198. Poor quality scanning.

* Many pages are believed to be of poor quality.

@Stated to be Parts 1 and 2, but Part 2 only.

References

↑ Rothy [Steve] Indian Army Lists online-pdfs WW2Talk Forum 15 September 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015
↑ bamboo43 [Steve] Indian Army Lists online-pdfs WW2Talk Forum 19 December 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
↑ Waggoner [Gary] Indian Army Lists online-pdfs Victorian Wars Forum 28 September 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2015

[1] Rothy [Steve] Indian Army Lists online-pdfs WW2Talk Forum 15 September 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015

[2] 43 [Steve] Indian Army Lists online-pdfs WW2Talk Forum 19 December 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2015.

[3] Waggoner [Gary] Indian Army Lists online-pdfs Victorian Wars Forum 28 September 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2015

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