SOCIAL SCIENCES: Historical Research Project

Use the Archives and Manuscripts catalogue to find and order from the Library’s unique collection items including: Manuscripts and unpublished documents; Personal papers, correspondence, and diaries; Family and estate papers; India Office Records and Private Papers; India Office Prints, Drawings, and Paintings; Photographs.

Contains the electronic versions of 80 books previously published in hard copy as part of the Country Studies Series by the Federal Research Division. Intended for a general audience, books in the series present a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of select countries throughout the world. Most books in the series deal with a single foreign country, but a few cover several countries or a geographic region

Links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. In addition, available are video or sound files, maps, photographs or other imagery, databases, and other documentation. The sources cover a broad range of historical happenings (political, economic, social, and cultural).

The digital collections comprise millions of items including books, newspapers, manuscripts, prints and photos, maps, musical scores, films, sound recordings ...

The website of the National Archives and Records Administration

The National Archives of India was set up in 1891 at Calcutta as the Imperial Record Department to act as the Central Record Office of the Government of India. At the time of its establishment, it was felt that a Central Library may also be set up as an adjunct of the Imperial Record Department and also act as the apex body to different Departmental Libraries.