L/F/10 Records of Service 1702-1928
The L/F/10 records are records of service, 1702-1928, containing career details of Government employees in all India's Presidencies and Provinces and in the central Government of India, though date ranges may be much narrower for particular areas. The records cover:
- covenanted and uncovenanted servants
- 'supernumeraries' - officials falling in neither of the above categories
- statements of civil establishment for the Government of India and the provincial governments
The records for uncovenanted servants (usually but not always middle-ranking and subordinate staff ) are particularly valuable as information on them is often not available elsewhere. They include employees in all Government departments and offices, including for example:
- the Indian Forest Department
- the Public Works Department
- the Post Office and Telegraph Departments
- the Indian Railways including the Burma Railway Company
N.B. An Introduction and Index to the L/F/10 Records will be soon be published in FIBIS Fact File No.7: Some major sources for Ancestors in the Indian Public Services."
This India List post advises that a number of LDS microfilms in respect of uncovenanted servants are listed in the LDS Library catalogue under the title A return of all offices, places and pensions, civil, political, military and commercial held under the East India Company within the United Kingdom and colonies. India Office. The reference IOR/ L/AG/30/1-22/1-60 is quoted, however an examination of pages 2 and 3 of the film notes for the catalogue entry shows that many of the records for uncovenanted servants are from the series IOR/L/F/10/119-252, for the period to 1900 (broken range). Some of the records which do not have an IOR reference are thought to be also part of the IOR/L/F/10 series.
More details about these records will be available in the soon to be published FIBIS Fact File on L/F/10 Records of Service.