533
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Adding image of cover of Baxter's
* Baxter, Ian A.
[[Image:BKF-0001.jpg|right]]''Baxter's guide : biographical sources in the India Office Records''. 3rd ed. [s.l.]: Families in British India Society in association with the British Library, 2004
This is the bible for all who are researching ancestors in British India and South Asia. The information sought will probably be found in the India Office Records, which occupy 15 km of shelving hidden away in the basements of the British Library. Thankfully, the author provides invaluable guidance on exactly where relevant information may be located for more than forty different categories of people. The reader is also directed to published sources. If confronted by an obscure term while researching, for instance on learning that an ancestor was a clerk in the Sadr Faujdari Adalat, then 'The glossary of terms used in the administration of British India' towards the end of this guide will be enlightening.
