ILO India monthly reports (1929-1969) now online
In 1919, India was one of the 42 ‘founding members’ of the International Labour Organization (ILO). The subcontinent’s worlds of labour have attracted considerable international attention ever since. In 1928, the ILO set up a ‘regional office’ in New Delhi, of which Dr. P. P. Pillai, an economist and former League of Nations official, served as director until 1947. From January 1929 until December 1969, the Delhi office prepared detailed monthly reports on the Indian labour scene and related problems of social and economic policy, which were regularly sent to the main offices in Geneva and (during World War II) in Montreal.
These reports may be used as an important resource for a variety of research projects on India’s labour and social policies during the late colonial and early postcolonial periods. The originals are preserved in the ILO Archives in Geneva. In a joint effort, historians at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies at the University of Göttingen and of the International Labour Organization’s ‘Century Project’ have now digitized the almost complete set of these reports.
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- Volume 1929
- Volume 1930
- Volume 1931
- Volume 1932
- Volume 1933
- Volume 1934
- Volume 1935
- Volume 1936
- Volume 1937
- Volume 1938
- Volume 1939
- Volume 1940
- Volume 1941
- Volume 1942
- Volume 1943
- Volume 1944
- Volume 1945
- Volume 1946
- Volume 1947
- Volume 1948
- Volume 1949
- Volume 1950
- Volume 1951
- Volume 1952
- Volume 1953
- Volume 1954
- Volume 1955
- Volume 1956
- Volume 1957
- Volume 1958
- Volume 1959
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- Volume 1961
- Volume 1962
- Volume 1963
- Volume 1964
- Volume 1965
- Volume 1966
- Volume 1967
- Volume 1968
- Volume 1969