Foreign Office files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan

The collections consist of the British Government’s files on the countries of South Asia from shortly before Indian partition and independence up to 1980.The files in the collections cover the events from the standpoint of British officialdom. In addition to high politics, the papers in the files cover such issues as economic and industrial development, trade, migration, visits to South Asia by British politicians and by South Asian politicians to Britain and elsewhere, education, administrative reorganisation, conflict over language, aid, political parties, agriculture and irrigation, and television and the press. Together they form a resource of fundamental value to scholars and students of modern South Asia.

ERC:Pamela Graham
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