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'''Update, October 2020January 2021.'''. The Indian Military Historical Society will close at the end of the yearhas now closed.<ref> [https://wwwweb.facebookarchive.comorg/web/20201031152155/usicafhrhttp:/posts/3630782346984735?__tn__=-R Facebookwww.durbaronline.co.uk Archived website: Centre for Armed Forces Historical Research - CAFHR, USIdurbaronline.co.uk] 11 October at 00:05 </ref>.
The '''Indian Military Historical Society''' was formed in 1983 to bring together those interested in the military history of the Indian Subcontinent and to encourage research and the exchange of information. This covers a broad spectrum ranging from aspects of general military history, to specific battles or campaigns, to the history of Service units engaged in India, including details of uniforms, medals, badges, buttons and other militaria.
These Service units include included : Royal Navy, [[British Army]], RAF units which served in India, units of the [[East India Company's Armies|HEIC Army]] and Marine prior to 1861, the Indian Army subsequent to 1861, including the European Volunteer Corps, the Royal Indian Marine, Royal Indian Navy, and Royal Indian Air Force, the Army of Nepal and those of the Princely States, and to a more limited extent, the present-day Armed Services of India, [[Pakistan]] and [[Bangladesh]], including Frontier Corps, Para Military and Police units.  ===Contact details===The Society can be contacted at :  :Indian Military Historical Society <br>:Secretary/Editor <br>:Mr A.N. McClenaghan <br>:33 High Street <br>:Tilbrook <br>:Huntingdon <br>:Cambridgeshire PE28 0JP <br>:ENGLAND :Website: [http://durbaronline.co.uk durbaronline.co.uk] <br>:The website contains a tab "Contact Us", where contact may be made through the website
===Journal===
The Society produces produced a quarterly journal called ''Durbar''.
The bottom of the archived website homepage contains includes a link [https://web.archive.org/web/20201014040628/http://durbaronline.co.uk/PDFgallery.htm Page] with links to an another page "DURBAR Archive Sample" which in turn contains a link to an ''Durbar'' Index (pdf, searchable) of the Journals from 1984-2015, 2018 and three sample editions. The Index was classified according to subjects such as Badges, Battles, Biographical, Medals, Regiments etc.. Journals were dated from Volume 6, No.4 (Winter 1989), but these dates have been were excluded from the Index.
There are three ''Durbar''s in the Archive Sample, the latest being Volume 30, No. 1, Spring 2013. Other archived copies of ''Durbar'' are in the Member's Area.
The [[British Library]] appears to hold issues from Volume 1, No. 4.
Oxford University Library (England) holds copies from Volume 16 No. 3 (Autumn 1999), catalogued as ''Durbar : journal of the Indian Military Historical Society''.
==References==<references/>From January 2021, with the closure of the Indian Military Historical Society, the archive of ''Durbar'' became available through the [[The Military Historical Society]]. The entire 37-year run of ''Durbar'' is now available to search on the MHS website and Members of the MH Society will be able to view and download the text of all issues of both ''The Bulletin'', Journal of the MHS and ''Durbar''. Non-Members will also be able to search the text and contents lists to see a list of relevant articles, but they will not be able to view the full text unless they join the Society. Back numbers of Durbar can also be ordered from the MHS shop. 
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