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India (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 7965 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), [Sep] [1927]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/153/69
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Invitation to WSC and CSC from the Maharaja of Bikaner [Rajputanana, India] to the opening of the Gang Canal at Gangar Nagar.

Dates: [Sep] [1927]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 18 Aug 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/153/30
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Letter from [WSC] to [Josiah Wedgwood] stating that he used the word "atrocious" [rather than "bloody" to describe certain Hindu customs relating to children]. Carbon typescript copy.

Dates: 18 Aug 1927
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 14 Aug 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/153/31
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Letter from Josiah Wedgwood (Moddershall Oaks, Stone, Staffordshire) to WSC reporting that he has written an article on "Mother India" in which he quotes WSC as attacking "these bloody outrages on children" perpetrated by Hindus.

Dates: 14 Aug 1927
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 23 Jan 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/157/8C-D
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Letter from Frances Helen Pumfrey (Portway, Wantage, Berkshire) to the editor of the "Daily Mail" warning that if Britain gives up Egypt she will also lose India, criticising the granting of votes to women under thirty, the taking of men's jobs by women, the payment of war debts to the United States, and Stanley Baldwin, and calling for the return to government of David Lloyd George. Copy sent with CHAR 2/157/8A.

Dates: 23 Jan 1928
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 26 Oct 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/209/21-22
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Letter from WSC to Sir John Simon, Foreign Office, on the "misleading information" broadcast by British wireless stations "emanating from the Foreign Office", particularly account of resolution on Indian policy passed at Conservative conference in Bristol [carbon].

Dates: 26 Oct 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Nov 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/210/1-9
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Letter from Sir John Simon, Foreign Office to WSC, on report on the British Official Wireless Service dealing with the debate on India at the Conservative Conference in Bristol. Also commenting generally on the service and WSC's claim that the contents were misleading or trivial, enclosing list of the items covered in the week beginning 1 Oct 1934.

Dates: 01 Nov 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Dec 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/211/1-7
Scope and Contents Letter from Sir James Grigg, Financial Member of Council, India to WSC, thanks for gift of Marlborough Vol.II, giving his views on the political situation in India, stating that he should not readily assume that the Muslims were Britain's eternal friends: "there is a damned sight too much pan-Islamic nonsense flying about out here and the Muslims are only being our friends for what they can get". Also that Provincial Autonomy alone was not the solution to the problem. Also giving account of...
Dates: 01 Dec 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/212/14
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"The humble Memorial of Ghurkhas settled and domiciled in British India", addressed to Sir Samuel Hoare (later Lord Templewood), Secretary of State for India [printed].

Dates: 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/212/15-16
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Notes on the inflationary policy of the Bank of England since the abandonment of the Gold Standard in Sep 1931 [hand-written, on Chartwell notepaper, initialled T.W.].

Dates: 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Mar 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/213/1-15
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Letter from William McWhirter, Sunday Dispatch, London, to WSC, enclosing, at the request of Lord Rothermere, news article on suppression of Lancashire views sent to the Joint Select Committee on the Government of India.

Dates: 31 Mar 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Apr 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/213/16-17
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Letter from Douglas Crawford, Foreign Editor, Daily Mail to WSC, sending documents relating to the suppression of evidence to the Joint Select Committee on the Goverment of India.

Dates: 03 Apr 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Oct 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/213/18-20
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Preface to Statement of Evidence presented by Manchester Chamber of Commerce, with the approval and support of The Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers Association and the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Associations Ltd to the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform.

Dates: 26 Oct 1933
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Apr 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/213/22-26
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Letter from Douglas Crawford, Foreign Editor, Daily Mail, London to WSC, on meeting with Harold Robinson, Alan Chorlton MP, possibly James Watts, to discuss suppression of Manchester's evidence to the Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform, enclosing letter from Watts on the matter.

Dates: 06 Apr 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Apr 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/213/27-34
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"Short notes" on a conversation at the Savoy Hotel, London between WSC, Brendan Bracken, Douglas Crawford, Foreign Editor, Daily Mail, Harold Robinson and Alan Chorlton MP, on suppression of evidence of Manchester Chamber of Commerce to the Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform [typescript].

Dates: 08 Apr 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Apr 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/213/35-38
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Letter from WSC to David Lloyd George, sending papers on suppression of evidence from the India Section of Manchester Chamber of Commerce to the Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform [typescript draft, initialled by WSC, with carbon].

Dates: 10 Apr 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Apr 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/213/41-42
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Letter from Harold Robinson (Chepstow Street, Manchester) to WSC, on suppression of evidence of Indian Section of Manchester Chamber of Commerce to the Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform.

Dates: 11 Apr 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Apr 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/213/43-50
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Letter from WSC to Terence O'Connor, on suppression of evidence of Indian Section of Manchester Chamber of Commerce to the Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform [carbon].

Dates: 11 Apr 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Apr 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/213/51-53
Scope and Contents Letter from James, 4th Lord Salisbury, Cranborne Lodge, Salisbury, to WSC, thanks for sending papers on suppression of evidence of Indian Section of Manchester Chamber of Commerce to the Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform, commenting that when the Manchester witnesses had appeared before the Committee it was obvious that they had been "got at". "I was profoundly disgusted. It was useless to put any questions...Clearly the business of a Committee is to get at the truth,...
Dates: 12 Apr 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Apr 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/213/55
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Letter from Harold Robinson, Chepstow Street, Manchester to Douglas Crawford, Daily Mail, confirming that further evidence of Government interference in work of the Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Stating that Lord Derby had visited Manchester Chamber of Commerce in September 1933, and implored them to alter their evidence.

Dates: 13 Apr 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Jun 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/213/56
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Letter from E Raymond Street, Secretary, Manchester Chamber of Commerce, to members of India Executive Committee on evidence to Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform [copy].

Dates: 19 Jun 1933
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 04 Jul 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/213/57-58
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Minutes of meeting of Manchester Chamber of Commerce India Executive Committee, on the Committee's evidence to the Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform, particularly informal discussions between the Chairman, J Harold Rodier and Lord Derby [copy].

Dates: 04 Jul 1933
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Oct 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/213/59
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Telegram from Sir William Clare Lees, Leader of British Textile Mission to India, to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, on evidence to Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform [copy].

Dates: 23 Oct 1933
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Oct 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/213/60-63
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Minutes of meeting of Manchester Chamber of Commerce, to discuss evidence to Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform.

Dates: 24 Oct 1933
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Oct 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/213/64
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Telegram from Sir William Clare Lees, British Textile Mission to India to Manchester Chamber of Commerce, on evidence to Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform [copy].

Dates: 24 Oct 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [Nov] 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/213/65
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Manchester Chamber of Commerce "diary" of evidence to Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional reform, Apr-Nov 1933.

Dates: [Nov] 1933
Conditions Governing Access: Open