Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections, British Library
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Bombay
on the Malabar Coast belonging to the East India Company of England by Jan van Ryne (1754) is in the India Office Records.The Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections previously called the Oriental and India Office Collections (OIOC) form a significant part of the holdings of the British Library in London, England.
India Office collection
The collections include the documents from the
Asia-Pacific and of north and north-east Africa
. It was located at Orbit House, 197 Blackfriars Road, London. Also, until 1998, The Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books was located at 14, Store Street, off Tottenham Court Road, London. Orbit House was demolished in 2004.
The collections also include transcriptions of baptism, marriage, and burial records of
Anglo-Indians or domiciled Europeans
who lived there.
External links
- Oriental and India Office Collections page on the British Library's website
- The British Library's collections
- British Library homepage
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