Indian Army List online

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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

Archive.org

1890-October

Archive.org

1891-July

Archive.org

1891-October

Archive.org

1893-January

Archive.org

1893- April

Archive.org

1893- July

Archive.org

1894-April

Archive.org

1895-January

Archive.org

1895-July

Archive.org

1895-October

Archive.org

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

Archive.org

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

Archive.org

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

Archive.org 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, 1624 pages

Archive.org
Probably incomplete.

1945-April: Part 1, 1732 pages Archive.org

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 Archive.org

1947- August Special Edition

Archive.org
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

  1. Rothy [Steve] Indian Army Lists online-pdfs WW2Talk Forum 15 September 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015
  2. bamboo43 [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