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{{Short description|Collections within the British Library}}
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[[File:Bombay-by-jan-van-ryne-1754.jpg|thumb|350px|''[[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==
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The collections include the documents from the [[India Office]] Library and Records, relating to the entire history of [[United Kingdom|British]] involvement in [[India]] and other parts of the eastern world, as well as materials in the languages of [[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 [[Christians]] of [[Europe]]an descent, sent to Britain from India during the period of British rule, which are a vital resource in researching the [[genealogy]] of [[Anglo-Indian]]s or [[domiciled European]]s who lived there.

==External links==
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* [http://www.bl.uk/collections/orientalandindian.html Oriental and India Office Collections] page on the [http://www.bl.uk/ British Library's website]
* [http://www.bl.uk/collections/listings.html The British Library's collections ]
* [http://www.bl.uk British Library homepage]

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[[Category:British Library collections]]
[[Category:Archives in the London Borough of Camden]]


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