For the month of April, please visit the following East Asian
historical archives databases. The Library is considering them
through a collaboration with several Vermont colleges: India Raj
and Empire Original manuscript material ranging from the
foundation of the East India Company in 1615 to records of daily
life in Agra, Bombay, Lahore, and Madras. Included are diaries,
letters, maps, sketches and official and private papers. The
collection is particularly strong for the 18th and 19th
centuries. Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and
Afghanistan, 1947-1980 Three archival collections drawn from the
British Foreign Office files on the countries of South Asia from
shortly before Indian partition and independence up to 1980. The
archival documents are divided into the following sections: (1)
Independence, Partition and the Nehru Era, 1947-1964, (2) South
Asian Conflicts and Independence for Bangladesh, 1965-1971 (3)
Afghanistan and the Cold War, Emergency Rule in India, and the
Resumption of Civilian Rul