What was the occupation of your ancestor? If you do not know, try to find it from the record of his Marriage or Death, or the Baptism of his children - see Ecclesiastical Records on how to use these records. Once you have ascertained his or her occupation, choose from the following list to find out what sources are available in the India Office Records. Please note that some of the pages are still being prepared and are therefore not presently accessible.
- Administrators
- Advocates
- Anglo-Indians
- Apothecaries
- Attornies
- Bandsmen
- Bankers
- Barristers
- British Army officers or soldiers
- Bombay Marine
- Cadets
- Captains
- Carpenters
- Chaplains
- Civil Servants
- Clergymen
- Clerks
- Collectors
- Commissaries
- Commissioners
- Conductors
- Covenanted Civil Servants
- Directors of the EIC
- Engineers
- Eurasian inhabitants
- European (Non-British) inhabitants
- Factors
- Free mariners
- Free merchants
- Grand Jury
- Hospital stewards
- Indian Army Officers
- Indian Army soldiers and NCOs
- Indian Civil Service
- Indian Marine
- Indian Medical Service
- Indian Navy
- Indian officers and other ranks
- Journalists
- Judges
- Law officers
- Magistrates
- Mercantile marine
- Merchants
- Midshipmen
- Missionaries
- Non-commisioned officers (NCOs)
- Non-official inhabitants
- Nurses
- Passengers
- Planters
- Police
- Public Works Department
- Pursers
- Railway staff
- Royal Air Force in India
- Sappers & Miners
- Seamen
- Sepoys
- Solicitors
- Stockholders of the EIC
- Supercargoes
- Surgeons
- Traders (see factors, merchants)
- Uncovenanted civil servants
- Veterinary
- Writers
- Other occupations
