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Selected records from the India Office

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.309 | RG Number: RG-59.024M

Overview

Description: The India Office was the administration in London of the pre-1947 government of India. These files include records relating to immigration and internment policy, individual case files of Jewish refugees to India, and nominal rolls of internees.
Date: inclusive: 1938-1949
Credit Line: Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Physical Details

Language: English
Extent: 10,208 digital images : JPEG ; 12.7 GB.
15 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
System of Arrangement: Arrangement is thematic

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Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
Conditions on Use: Researchers may not reproduce any material supplied for any reason (including academic or personal, and whether for profit or not) without prior written permission from the British Library. Researchers wishing to reproduce supplied material should apply to the British Library Reproduction Rights for the applicable fees: The British Library, Reproduction Rights, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB, UK.
Copyright Holder: The British Library

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Refugees, Jewish--India--History--20th century. Executive departments.
Geographic Name: India--Ethnic relations. Great Britain

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: The British Library
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project Division received the collection from the Archives of the British Library in June 2005. The collection was transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives later in June 2005.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Record last modified:: 2023-07-06 13:44:56
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