6AAH3013/14 The Making of a Colonial Regime: India, Resources in SHL and elsewhere

Maps can be useful to illustrate the growing extent of British influence in India between Many of these are available online, and others can be found in standard reference works held in Senate House Library. As an example, here are four slides (from Wikimedia commons): i) India under the British East India Company 1765 and 1805 juxtaposed for comparison; ii) British dominion of India 1783; iii) India under the British East India Company 1837; iv) Map of British India 1860.

i) India under the British East India Company 1765 and 1805

ii) British dominion of India 1783

iii) Map of India under the British East India Company 1837

iv) Map of British India

Senate House Library holds a range of material relevant to this course, in a variety of formats, both secondary and primary sources monographs print and electronic journals e-resources/databases Special Collections material mss

Monograph material relevant to this course is to be found primarily within the Senate House Library History collection and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies collection. Both are extensive research level collections. History collection History books on open access are located on the 5th floor, continuing onto the Periodicals Room gallery, 4th floor, below. Books housed in the stacks and off-site can be requested through the library catalogue. Books are mainly for loan, but some are for Reference Only use within the Library. You will often find loanable copies of books which are Reference Only in the Commonwealth Studies collection. Institute of Commonwealth Studies collection This is an area studies collection located on the 6 th floor of the library. Books housed in the stacks and off-site can be requested through the library catalogue. Books from this particular collection are for Reference Only use and may not be borrowed, but photocopying facilities are available. N.B. Loanable copies of some items may be found in the History collection.

Here is an example of useful course material to be found as Reference Only in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies collection and as available for loan in the History collection: The New Cambridge history of India vol. II.1 Indian society and the making of the British Empire / C. A. Bayly. HISTORY (SHL) 4th Floor PERIODICALS ROOM GALLERY (63) OMB Cam LOAN ICOMM 6th Floor DS436 NEW REFERENCE ONLY Multiple copies are not held, but some heavily used material in the History Collection may be available for Reference Only and Loan e.g. Imperial meridian : the British Empire and the world, / C.A. Bayly HISTORY (SHL) 4th Floor PERIODICALS ROOM GALLERY (63) MZQ Bay REF ONLY HISTORY (SHL) 4th Floor PERIODICALS ROOM GALLERY (63) MZQ Bay LOAN HISTORY (SHL) 4th Floor PERIODICALS ROOM GALLERY (63) MZQ Bay LOAN An increasing amount of material is available in e-book format

Useful classmarks to browse History Collection MZQ - British colonial policy OMB - general histories of India OMF - trade with India OMFE - British East India Company OMH - India, social and cultural history OMS - Indian history OMT - India under the East India Company, Institute of Commonwealth Studies DS401-DS846 - histories of India, social and cultural history, colonial India DS British occupied India DS465 – British East India Company HC444 – economic relations/trade Britain/India

Relevant journal articles are to be found in a variety of journals, some general in scope, others more subject-specific. Journals may be available electronically, via the library catalogue, in hard copy, or both electronically and in hard copy Here are examples of journals that are general in scope The Historical Journal (available electronically and in hard copy) History Today (available electronically and in hard copy) Here is an example of a more subject- specific journal Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (available electronically and in hard copy)

A variety of electronic resources and databases will be of use. The vast majority are available offsite and give full-text access see eresources/ eresources/ Some examples of databases that are general in scope Academic Search Complete JSTOR Periodicals Archive Online Some examples of more subject- specific databases British History Online Bibliography of British and Irish History (bibliographic info only) Historical Abstracts (bibliographic info only)

Examples of other useful electronic resources – all available via eresources/ eresources/ Times Digital Archive th Century British Library Newspapers 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers History of Parliament : British political, social and local history House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth century Hansard Parliamentary debates Making of the Modern World (The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)

SHL Special Collections may also hold material of use to you. Their catalogues are available to search from this page collections/ collections/ Many of these rare items are available to you online via the database Making of the Modern World (The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature) – there is a link to this database here / and there are links to individual items on the library catalogue

The present state of the East Indies / by Warren Hastings, Esq., late governor General of Bengal ; with notes by the editor. London : Printed for John Stockdale, A compendium of the laws recently passed for regulating the trade with the East Indies : the duties of customs and excise on goods imported from thence / by Thomas Thornton. London : Black, Parry, & Co, The economic history of India under early British rule : from the rise of the British power in 1757, to the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 / Dutt, Romesh Chunder, London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1906

Further resources are available at the British Library e.g. The India Office Records The India Office Records are the documentary archives of the administration in London of the pre-1947 government of India. There are 14 kilometres of shelves of volumes, files and boxes of papers, together with 70,000 volumes of official publications and 105,000 manuscript and printed maps, comprising the archives of the East India Company ( ), of the Board of Control or Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India ( ) and other related bodies

Trading Places - the East India Company & Asia This is a virtual exhibition you can view on the British Library webpages (the original exhibition took place at the BL 24 May – 22 September 2002) Here is the link:

If you have any queries about the Institute of Commonwealth Studies collection: Please contact me: Christine Anderson