Indian Army List online
This page is an attachment to Directories online and Military periodicals online
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.
Contents
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 | 1891-October | ||
| 1893-January | 1893- April | 1893- July | |
| 1894-April | |||
| 1895-January | 1895-July | 1895-October | |
| 1896-April | |||
| 1897-January | 1897-April | ||
| 1899-April |
1900-1909
| 1900-January | |||
| 1901-January | 1901-April | 1901-July | 1901-November |
| 1902-January, No 5 | 1902 April | 1902-July | 1902-October |
| 1905-January
Catalogued incorrectly. Should be January 1905 |
1905- April | 1905-July | 1905-October |
| 1907-July | |||
| 1908-October | |||
| 1909-January | 1909-October |
1910-1919
1920-1929
| 1920-January | 1920-April | ||
| 1921 -April
Available from
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1921-July | ||
| 1922-January | |||
| 1923–April | 1923-October | ||
| 1924- January Supplement | 1924-October | ||
| 1925-July | 1925-October | ||
| 1926-April
Catalogued
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1926-July, 905 pages | ||
| 1927-January | 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 | ||
| 1931- January | 1931-July | ||
| 1933-April | 1933-October | ||
| 1934-October | |||
| 1935-October | |||
| 1936-July | 1936-October | ||
| 1937-January Supplement
Also contains 1937-April |
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| 1938- April | 1938-October | ||
| 1939-January Supplement | 1939-April
Incomplete - ends at
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1939-October |
1940-1947
| 1940- July, 933 pages | |||
| 1941-January | 1941-July | 1941-October | |
| 1942-July, 1801 pages | |||
| 1943 April: Parts 1 and 2
Incomplete - missing pages 937-1380 |
1943-October: Part 1 | ||
| 1944-April: Part 2, 1242 pages | 1944-October: Part 2 | ||
| 1945-April: Part 1
Probably incomplete. |
1945-October: Part 1 | ||
| 1946-April: Part 2 | 1946-October: Part 2, 1617 pages@ | ||
| 1947- August Special Edition
Incomplete-missing at least pages 114-140 & 147 - 198. Poor quality scanning.
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* 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
