Question

how did the british preserve official documents and letters

Answer 1

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According to Britishers the act of writting was very important so they set up record rooms attached to all administrative institution ...
The village tehsildar's office, the collector, the comminissor's office ...They all had their records room where they keep their Official document and letters....
according to them ever policy decision, plan, investigation, argument has to be clearly written up .Once this was done things would be easily studied and debated....
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Answer 2

The British also felt that all important documents and letters needed to be carefully preserved. So they set up record rooms attached to all administrative institutions. ... The British believed that by preserving official documents it would have been easier for them or to know about the decisions taken in the past.