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ftareri.ls, ln l80l li. @mpdy founded irs libE y whicn ws to be a ple€ vhqc the boolr
and meu$ripts ofthc compdy s elwts w.rc pEeB.d (Bt@mfi€td, t 984, pp, 29-30).
Archilai @rivilies i. subenlin.nr srrned in theddrendr cenlury. Th. fir.!.fton
ws Dade ro €sBblish a lgrd ofli@ in I 847 by Jm6 Hum., on. of rh€ jud86 .r C.lcuns
but be6ue of orihonious elalions ofjd.s Hume with Bdlow the pmpoet t I thmugh.
Th. coNnudon tud or8sialion ot rh. @np6ny ws lppDled in t8' for rEnly
yean .c@rding lo the chaner roblion bul the @npdy hs wound up in @n$qucne of$e
emt of 1857 od th. Indio @nuol fincly Md nrty sm.d by rh. British prtiftnr by
Quen vi.toids pr@lanadon oa Novemb.r 0l, 1858, Mljor irru afiectinS 6oids &d
Mrd cEari.g innhulions 4, (!) Seellrt of $are tor Indi4 (b) tndid civit sdica (c)
Records and propenica, dd (d) cov€morCcnerat/ Viceroy (Ahn.d, 1988, pp.5?_j9).
Th. yd 1860 ew die lon ofa nw phs of archiwl acliviiica in subconrinq! Ih.
GovelnmeftoflndiB sign€d lhc Bponsibttiiy ofappdist ofrqcods to Tolbors Wheetc.
in 1858. lnp6*d by his srt d. Bombdy covoncnr .ppoinr.d Thom6 Csdy in t863
to exan'ne &d cl.ssify $e eod avaitabt. in Bonbay, H€ subnitr.d a repon ro rhe $!r.
covcmdcnt and impcs{, by his EFn rh. Covmm.nr apoinr.d ! @d @mnide in
1865 with a viN ro eMining th. entic Fl.mt question Fgddiig old Ecords which wa6
@0nulaled for ycsB in !dio6 deplaodE,
Th. l.dia ofiice libnry becams @pyrigh deposirory of Indis in t86?, Some orh.r
Elrt d inslirudoB krc c@led utukr rh. gowmdt.crs of 1882, t909, 1919, tud t935
(Bloonfi.ld, 1984, pp.29-32), inctuding rhc thpe at Record D.p.nnenr i. Crtcurra in
r39r(sh!@l t991.p.36).
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