India
Found in 310 Collections and/or Records:
Press Cuttings, 1938-07 - 1946-07
Including: the India situation; elections in Birmingham [Warwickshire]; foreign aid; Swiss speeches.
Press Cuttings, 1940 - 1941
Including: the India situation.
Press Cuttings, 1941 - 1943
Including: India's war effort and Indian servicemen; Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps's mission to the Indian Congress; the political situation in India.
Press Cuttings, 1939 - 1946
Including: reviews of 'Days of Fresh Air'; details of LSA's mountaineering; the situation in India and Burma [later Myanmar]; the 1945 British General Election; United States loans.
Press cuttings relating to Sandys visits to India and Ceylon [later Sri Lanka], December 1962-3, 1962 - 1963
And cuttings relating to his visits to British Guiana [later Guyana], 1962-63, and Dublin, May 1963
Press cuttings relating to Sandys' visits to India, January 1961, and to Australia & New Zealand relating to the EEC, June-July 1961, 1961-01 - 1961-07
The material covers much of Lord Duncan-Sandys public life. Papers, reports and correspondence document the ministries in which he served and there are also constituency correspondence, speeches, publications, press cuttings and photographs. A number of papers exist relating to his involvement in the campaign to restore Capital Punishment, the European Movement and the Civic Trust.
Printed letter concerning two chronometers for HMS Volage under Captain G.B. Martin, and the purchase of a chronometer in India, 1833-06-19
Sent from Francis Beaufort to John Pond.
Private correspondence between LSA and Field Marshal 1st Lord Wavell [Commander-in-Chief, India, 1941-43, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, 1943-47], 1941-03 - 1949-07
Subjects include: Wavell's talks with Liaquat Ali Khan [Prime Minister of Pakistan] and Shri Jawaharlal Nehru [Prime Minister of India]; the unhelpful bitterness of Winston Churchill's attitude towards India; Indian service pensions; the formation of India's coalition Government; attempts to form an interim Government; a proposed expedition to Mount Everest; air power in the South East Asia campaign.
Other correspondents include: G M Trevelyan.
Private letters from LSA to the Governor of Bengal, 1942-06 - 1945-07
Private letters from LSA to the Governor of Bombay, 1940-11 - 1945-07
Private letters from LSA to the Governor of Burma and source material for memoirs, 1941-01 - 1955-07
Private letters from LSA to the Viceroy of India, 1940-05 - 1940-12
Printed copies of letters from LSA to 2nd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun] on subjects including: the war situation; aircraft and munitions production; the constitutional problem; Indian defence; talks with Mahomed Jinnah [Leader of the Muslim League] and Mohandas Gandhi; dealings with the Indian Congress; the imprisonment of Jawaharlal Nehru; the appointment of General Sir Claude Auchinleck [as Commander-in-Chief, India].
Private letters from LSA to the Viceroy of India, 1941-01 - 1941-12
Private letters from LSA to the Viceroy of India, 1942-01 - 1942-12
Private letters from LSA to the Viceroy of India, 1943-01 - 1943-10
Printed copies of letters from LSA to 2nd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun] on subjects including: the fast by Mohandas Gandhi; Chaudhri Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan; future military and political operations in Burma [later Myanmar]; negotiations with Mahomed Jinnah [Leader of the Muslim League], Mohandas Gandhi and the Indian Congress; establishing a South East Asia Supreme Command; the food situation.
Private letters from LSA to the Viceroy of India, 1945-01 - 1945-07
Printed copies of letters from LSA to 1st Lord Wavell (and to Sir [David] John Colville, Acting Viceroy [later 1st Lord Clydesmuir]) on subjects including: the constitution and the India Committee; Governorships; the General Election and the effects of a new Government.
Private letters from the Governor of Bengal to LSA, 1942-07 - 1945-07
Private letters from the Governor of Bombay to LSA, 1941-01 - 1945-02
Private letters from the Governor of Burma to LSA, 1941-05 - 1945-08
Private letters from the Viceroy of India to LSA, 1940-05 - 1940-12
Private letters from the Viceroy of India to LSA, 1941-01 - 1941-12
Private letters from the Viceroy of India to LSA, 1942-01 - 1942-12
Printed copies of letters from 2nd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun] to LSA on subjects including: the visit of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek to India; the evacuation of Burma [later Myanmar]; Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps's mission to Congress; negotiations with Mahomed Jinnah [Leader of the Muslim League], Mohandas Gandhi and the Indian Congress; the visit of Henry, Duke of Gloucester; the expansion of Linlithgow's Council; rioting throughout the provinces.
Private letters from the Viceroy of India to LSA, 1943-01 - 1943-10
Private letters from the Viceroy of India to LSA, 1943-10 - 1944-12
Printed copies of letters from 1st Lord Wavell to LSA, with minutes of the Governors' Conference, on subjects including: conditions in Bengal [parts of Bangladesh and India]; the food situation; post-war reconstruction; Wavell's Council, particularly the Finance Membership; negotiations with Mahomed Jinnah [Leader of the Muslim League], the Indian Congress and Mohandas Gandhi, particularly on Gandhi's health and talks between him and Jinnah; a trade dispute with South Africa.
Private letters from the Viceroy of India to LSA, 1945-01 - 1945-08
Printed copies of letters from 1st Lord Wavell (and Sir [David] John Colville, Acting Viceroy [later 1st Lord Clydesmuir]) to LSA on subjects including: the trade dispute between India and South Africa; progress on the constitution; negotiations with Mahomed Jinnah [Leader of the Muslim League] and the Indian Congress; Bengal [parts of Bangladesh and India]; the food situation.