These are intended to be a few useful sites for research in India. If you know of any other good non commercial sites, please send me the link in a PM and I will add them to the list. This thread is closed to avoid the problem of research queries being tagged on to it.
Family Search - some useful links
FIBIS Families in British India – many interesting records in their database, which can be freely searched. There is also a useful Wiki page here.
British Library India Office
Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies - some very good links concerning the East India Company
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01-05-2014, 11:21 PM #1
Useful Sites for Research in India
Sue Mackay
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08-01-2021, 4:09 PM #2
I have corrected a broken link in the above post
Pam Downes has also listed Indian records held by FindMyPast
East India Company Madras Records Of Service 1741-1858
East India Company Pensions 1793-1833
India Office List 1933
British India Office Army & Navy Pensions
British India Office Births & Baptisms
British India Office Deaths & Burials
British India Office Marriages
British India Office Wills & Probate
British In India, Directories 1792-1948
East India Company & Civil Service Pensions
East India Register & Army List 1855
British India Office Assistant Surgeons
Indian Army & Civil Service List 1873
British Casualties, Indian Mutiny 1857-1859
British Subjects Who Died In The Service Of The Indian Empire
British Newspaper Archive have, amongst others :
Bombay Gazette from 1813 to at least 1871
Times of India from 20 May 1861 to at least 1871
The Voice of India 1885 - 1904, plus 1910
Indian Spectator 1904 - 1910
Calcutta Gazette 1784 to at least 1815
Indian Daily News - from 1875
The Homeward Mail from India, China and the East - from 1857
Englishman's Overland Mail - from 1864
Friend of India and Statesman 1852 - 1883
Gillian Rowland also recommends the Panjab Digital Library. If the link doesn't work, and it doesn't for me, Google it and you will reach the page with the same URL! Computers baffle me sometimes!Sue Mackay
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