| Description | Printed, typescript and manuscript correspondence, memoranda and miscellanea; may contain copy correspondence, extracts and dictation; relating to Indian affairs, 1915-1922
Correspondents: Herbert Henry Asquith [1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury 1908-1916], Sir Valentine Chirol [Diplomatic Service; transferred to the Hague, 1913; 1st Secretary, 1915], George Curzon [1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston; Lord President of the Council, 1916-1919; Leader of the House of Lords, 1916-1924; Member of Imperial War Cabinet, 1916; Lord Privy Seal, 1915-1916; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1919-1924; various other political offices], R. W. Gillan, Charles Hardinge [1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst; Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1906-1910 and 1916-1920; Viceroy of India, 1910-1916], Theodore Morison [University of Durham], Raja Daljit Singh, Montagu, John Maffey, Ludlow-Hewitt, Chelmford, John Chancellor, William Joynson Hicks [1st Viscount Brentford; Parliamentary Secretary, Overseas Trade Department, 1922-1923], [Gen. Sir H. Vaughan] Cox [Secretary Military Department, India Office, 1917-1921], [Field-Marshal Sir] Henry [Hughes] Wilson [Various political and military offices], [William Robert Wellesley] Peel [1st Earl Peel; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1921-1922; Minister of Transport, 1921-1922; Secretary of State for India, 1922-1924 and 1928-1929], Austen Chamberlain [acting as Secretary of State for India, 1915-1917, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1919-1921, Leader of the House and Lord Privy Seal, 1921-1922] and others
Includes: /1-/3 Typescript and manuscript correspondence of Chirol and Chamberlain, relating to general situation in India, etc, 1916;
/4-/6, /7b-/7c, /8, /9, /10, /11, /12, /15a Manuscript letters from Curzon to Chamberlain, relating to extension of Hardinge's term of office as Viceroy, India Reforms, Germans in East Persia, British Military Police in East Persia, New Delhi, Indian Military requirements, etc, 1915-1916; /7 Printed memorandum relating to British Military Police in East Persia, 1916; /9a, /10a Typescript letters from Bhupendra [Nath] Basu and Aga Khan to Morison, relating to situation in India, Imperialism, etc 1915-1916; /17-/27 Typescript and printed memoranda, copies of telegraphic correspondence and correspondence relating to political situation in India, including references to visit to India by the Prince of Wales, Gandhi and his associates, demonstrations, etc, 1921; /28a-/36 Typescript and manuscript correspondence, copies and extracts of correspondence of Sir John Maffey, Chamberlain and others relating to situation in Waziristan, 1922; /37-/43, /48-/57 Typescript and manuscript correspondence, including copies of telegraphic correspondence, of S. K. Brown, R. P. M. Gower, Montagu, Joynson Hicks, Viceroy, Chamberlain and others, relating to Indian Army, Waziristan, etc, 1922; /58-/64 Printed, manuscript and typescript correspondence and memoranda, including copies of telegraphic correspondence of Cox, Wilson, Viceroy, Chamberlain and others relating to secret operations, security of India, etc, 1918; /65-/72 Typescript correspondence and memoranda, including copies of telegraphic correspondence, of Peel, Viceroy [Army Dept.], Chamberlain and others relating to Indianisation of Indian Army, etc, 1922; /72a-/73 Manuscript correspondence of Asquith and Chamberlain relating to selection of successor to Hardinge, 1915 |