Whitehall in 1900: The India Office

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Arthur H. Beavan continued his look at Whitehall in Imperial London, in 1901, with a look at the India Office:

The Foreign Office extended from Downing Street round the corner to the square tower facing St. James' Park; this marked its separation from the India Office, which reached to Charles Street.

Here, too, there was a splendid library, whose shelves quickly revealed that this Department directed a Great Eastern Empire. Indian curios in the chief offices, and a certain air of dignified languor in the officials themselves, made the fact more apparent.

In all these Government Departments there was a general similarity of arrangement, sets of rooms, each with its salle d'attente, where obliging messengers directed belated visitors how to reach their destination along the endless corridors and passages.