On 08 February 2017 at 08:57 Gordon Joly <gordon.joly@pobox.com> wrote:


On 06/02/17 13:36, Lucy Crompton-Reid wrote:
>
> Some of you may be aware that 2017 is the UK - India Year of Culture. I
> guess this resource may relate to that, or it could be a coincidence.
> Either way, it would be great to see what the potential is in terms of
> the Wikimedia projects :)
>


I am not so sure. Wasn't the East India Company in reality a body that
acted as if they were country of occupation in India?

Come now. The HEIC archives are of major historical significance, and that is nothing to do with thinking about whether they should have. 

What I know about this, from a family member who writes on Indian history, is that there is altogether too much documentation. That is, with the classic historian's POV that you should master the documentary record, that proves too much for a typical scholarly lifetime. Obviously better access, transcription, indexation can make some impact there. 

People do write on Wikipedia about East India Company leaders in the three presidencies. Often these articles are stubby and thinly referenced. Primary sources are problematic for referencing, as we know. Still, Wikipedia should be useful for annotation of this archive (i.e. encyclopedic material complements primary documents).

Plenty of stubs to choose from.

Charles