Search the historical archives

Search the Tamil Nadu Archives of Historical Records: over 450,000 digitised records - Old Settlement Records (OSR, pre-independence settlement registers by village), Inam Fair Registers (IFR, tax-free land grants), Government Orders, Pre-Mutiny records (1670-1857), historical books/manuals/gazetteers, gazettes and departmental indices. Use for historical/ancestral land research: "old settlement record for my village", "inam records of X", "old GOs about Y", pre-independence history of a place. Search by village/taluk/district name for OSR/IFR, by title keywords for the rest. category "all" sweeps every register. Costs 1 credit per call, waived when nothing is found.

post/api/v1/tools/tnahr_search

Request

  • Base URL: https://verified.realestate
  • URL: https://verified.realestate/api/v1/tools/tnahr_search
  • Auth: HTTP bearer

Request body

querystring required

Search text: village/taluk/district for OSR & IFR, title keywords for GOs/books/gazettes

category'all' | 'osr' | 'ifr' | 'go' | 'pre_mutiny' | 'books' | 'gazettes' | 'indices' | 'gateway'

Which register to search; "all" sweeps every one

yearstring

Optional year filter (GOs, books, gazettes, indices)

districtstring

Optional district filter (OSR and IFR only)

Response

The envelope: ok, status, data, credits_charged, balance_after, request_id

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.