• Dr. S. Chandra Meghala

Tamil Nadu Archives occupies a unique place in Archives administration. The past decades had witnessed a great increase in Government records. The Government established an independent Record department in 1909 due to increasing mass of records. Therefore the Madras Record office was built in the Egmore area of Chennai. After India’s Independence, the institution was named as Madras state Archives in 1969. It acquired its present name in 1973, following the renaming Madras state Archives into Tamil Nadu. The temporary appointment of curators failed to fulfill the day-to-day needs of the Tamilnadu Archives in the sphere of administration and historical research. So the Madras Government wanted to review the contents and conditions of the records. Hence the Government deputed Percy Macqueen the Collector of Ramnad to the TamilNadu Archives on special duty for a period of two years to examine Revenue records. Though Percy Macqueen was not an academician he was highly interested in historical research. He paid special attention to accumulated materials related to historical events. His period witnessed the growth of historical research in the Tamilnadu Archives. He rendered valuable service to the research scholar by such critical apparatus as guides to records, prepartation of Indexes etc. He knew the needs of the scholars well and guided them properly in location materials. He suggested the allocation of comfortable study places to the scholars.

Curator, Critical apparatus,index register, Catalogue, Extinguished in stack

"CONTRIBUTION OF PERCY MACQUEEN TOWARDS THE PROGRESS OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN TAMIL NADU ARCHIVES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 2, page no.237-242, February-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1802336.pdf

"CONTRIBUTION OF PERCY MACQUEEN TOWARDS THE PROGRESS OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN TAMIL NADU ARCHIVES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 2, page no. pp237-242, February-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1802336.pdf