The India Papers collection is an archive containing roughly 4,200 bound volumes (40,000 individual reports) dated from the post-Mutiny reorganisation of the Indian government up until Indian Independence in 1947 and is essentially a collection of almost all things relating to British India. There are large sections devoted to the state's medical history, human rights, military history, education, industry and trade, travel, politics, religion, arts, and various other subjects. Notable documents in the archive include important documentation concerning eye-witness accounts of the Partition riots and the police reports on Gandhi's political meetings. The rare collection is held at the National Library of Scotland (NLS) in Edinburgh, Scotland. Only one other collection of similar size and content can be found in the UK, the India Office Records, which are held at the British Library in London. The India Papers are complemented further by more the substantial collections in India and in the United States. History and acquisition The India Papers consist of documents and other miscellaneous materials spanning from around 1858 to 1947. The collection comprises publications of the central imperial government and of various Indian states, many of which came under British rule. The National Library of Scotland acquired parts of the India Papers in different ways, though most materials were deposited under a scheme administered by the India Office. Some materials was published in the UK on the Indian government's behalf and so has been acquired under the terms of the Copyright Act, while all other papers were either donated or purchased. There are also composite volumes which were assembled by George Smith and Joseph Owen as well as some books that were acquired as part of the Minto Papers - a collection of papers related to the Elliot family whose 1st Earl, Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, was Governor-General of India (1807 - 1813) and whose 4th Earl, of the same name, was Viceroy (1905 - 1910). The Medical History of British India collection The Medical History of British India collection exposes government practices, law and the operation of colonial power in British India in a medical context, with extensive information on colonial medicine accompanied by drawings, maps, graphs, illustrations and photographs. Most of the archive has been digitised by the NLS and so thousands of documents relating to disease, veterinary medicine, public health, and medical research are now available online to the general public. This digitised archive is divided up