India, Raj and Empire（印度、殖民统治与帝国）数据库是是苏格兰国家图书馆的原始手稿收藏。几个世纪以来，印度在全球贸易网络中扮演了关键角色，同时又是英帝国历史的中心。这一完美的收藏，向人们展示了从1615年东印度公司的成立，到1947年印度与巴基斯坦独立300多年的历史，从不同角度展现了从东印度公司重要代表人物与殖民地官员的文件，到阿格拉、孟买、拉哈尔市与马都拉斯的日常生活纪录等。这一收藏18与19 世纪的内容尤为丰富，有助于学者进行以下研究：社会历史，都市历史，商业与经济发展，农业，旅行与古迹，印第安政治，民族主义的崛起，英帝国与世界历史，同时还收录了有关巴基斯坦、斯里兰卡、阿富汗、马来西亚与新加坡的内容。
Period Covered
- 17th - 19th century
Highlights
- Papers of Henry Dundas including extensive correspondence with Marquis Wellesley and Lord Cornwallis, governor-generals of India
- Accounts of daily life in Agra, Bombay, Lahore, Madras and other areas
- A diary of a trip down the Ganges in 1826
- An account of life in the Madras army, 1768-1777
- Records of the Mahratta wars, the Sikh wars, the war against Tipu Sultan, the Burmese war and other conflicts
- Papers of an official of the East India Company
- Records of Arbuthnot & Co, traders in Madras
- The diary of a hunting expedition
- An account of a duel, court martials and of the murder of a servant
- Papers of Andrew Hunter, coffee planter, 1860-1870
- Illustrated accounts of tea-planting in India, 1780-1855
- Reminiscences of an indigo farmer
- Discussions of Indian Nationalism in the 1930s
Source Archive
- The National Library of Scotland
Material Types
- Diaries and journals
- Official and private papers
- Letters
- Sketches
- Paintings
- Original Indian documents containing histories and literary works
Editorial Board
- Crispin Bates, University of Edinburgh
Subjects
- The East India Company: Government and Administration c.1750-1857
- Agriculture and Trade c.1750-1857
- Society, Travel and Leisure c.1750-1857
- The Mysore and Maratha Wars
- Indian Uprising 1857-58
- The Raj: British Government and Administration of India after 1858
- Agriculture and Trade after 1858
- Society, Travel and Leisure after 1858
- India: Literature, History and Culture