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The [['''India Office Records]] ''' are held in the [[Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection]] ([[APAC]]) at the [[British Library]]. They are the documentary archives of the administration in London of the pre-1947 government of India and are made up from the archives of the [[East India Company]] (1600-1858), the [[Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India]] (1784-1858), the [[India Office]] (1858-1947), the [[Burma Office]] (1937-1948) and many other related British overseas agencies. Records may be viewed in the Asian & African Studies Reading Room. If your ancestor was employed as a civilian in any arm of government, such as the [[police]], post office, [[railways]] or [[Indian Civil Service|civil service]], then his records are most likely to be kept at the IOR collection. This also applies if your ancestor served in the [[East India Company Army]], but not the [[British Army]]. A number of indexes and transcribed records can be found online on the FIBIS database and other websites. However these are merely a snapshot of the whole collection. Many of the records have also been [[Using LDS Microfilms|microfilmed by the LDS]] and can be made available for examination at local [[Family History Centres]]. However, generally, a visit would have to be made to the British Library to obtain the full background to your research.