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India (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 7962 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 13 Feb 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/15
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Letter from [Violet Pearman], PS to WSC to H E B Catter, thanks for letter on India. Regretting that WS was unable to meet him, but had forwarded his letter to the India Defence League [carbon].

Dates: 13 Feb 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Feb 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/16
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Letter from Hugh Orr-Ewing, India Defence League, to WSC, acknowledging receipt of letter from Violet Pearman on H E B Catter. Also asking if he would be prepared to speak in Bristol in September.

Dates: 15 Feb 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Feb 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/18
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Letter from David Woodford, Press and Information Officer, India Defence League, to WSC, sending report on negotiations between the British Government and the Governments of Hyderabad and Mysore [not retained].

Dates: 19 Feb 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Feb 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/19
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Letter from Hugh Orr-Ewing, India Defence League, to WSC, reporting meeting with H E P Catley, who had spent most of his life working as a journalist in India. Also on the possibility of WSC speaking in Bristol in September.

Dates: 20 Feb 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Feb 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/20-29
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Letter from David Woodford, India Defence League to Violet Pearman, PS to WSC, sending notes on pressure being applied to the Indian Princes to accept Federation.

Dates: 20 Feb 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Feb 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/31
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India Defence Committee notification that Sir Henry Page Croft (later Lord Croft) intended to move a Resolution in the House of Commons, calling attention to the Government of Ceylon [Sri Lanka], and urging that a Parliamentary Commission should go there to report. Asking members to attend.

Dates: 21 Feb 1934
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Feb 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/32-33
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Letter from Hugh Orr-Ewing, Chief Organiser, India Defence league, to WSC, enclosing draft of telegram of support to the first Branch of the League in India, asking WSC if he approved the text [annotated "agreed"].

Dates: 24 Feb 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Mar 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/34-35
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Telegram from Patrick Donner MP to WSC, asking for help in asking Parliamentary Question, asking the Secretary of State for India to publish full text of speech by Lord Brabourne at Bombay [two copies].

Dates: 02 Mar 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Mar 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/36
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Letter from WSC to Patrick Donner MP to WSC, draft of Parliamentary Question, asking the Secretary of State for India to publish full text of speech by Lord Brabourne at Bombay [carbon].

Dates: 02 Mar 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Mar 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/37
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Letter from W Woosnam, Barton on Sea, Hampshire to WSC, asking if he would send message of support to inaugural meeting of Branch of the India Defence League.

Dates: 16 Mar 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Mar 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/38-40
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Letter from Hugh Orr-Ewing to WSC, enclosing message of support to inaugural meeting of Barton on Sea Branch of the India Defence League.

Dates: 20 Mar 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Apr 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/41-42
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Letter from Hugh Orr-Ewing, India Defence League to WSC, enclosing copy letter from F Lincoln Ralphs, editor, "The New University", Magazine of the National Union of Students, on the possibility of WSC or Rudyard Kipling contributing an article on the aims and purpose of the League.

Dates: 10 Apr 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 04 Apr 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/45-47
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Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel H O Carroll, Hon. Secretary, Chelsea and District Group, India Defence League, asking if he would attend mass meeting at Chelsea Town Hall on 27 Apr, to be addressed by Lord Lloyd.

Dates: 04 Apr 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Jun 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/56-60
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Press cuttings on WSC's Public Meeting in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on Lancashire and India.

Dates: 21 Jun 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Jun 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/63-65
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Letter from Hugh Orr-Ewing, India Defence League, to WSC, enclosing copy of letter from Alan Chorlton to the Secretary of the Cotton Trade League.

Dates: 22 Jun 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Jun 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/66-67
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Letter from Harold Robinson, India Defence League, Manchester Group, to WSC, on Lancashire trade with India.

Dates: 22 Jun 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Jun 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/68-74
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Letter from Hugh Orr-Ewing, India Defence League to WSC, enclosing press cuttings from the Daily Express, Manchester Evening News and the Manchester Guardian on success of public meeting at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester.

Dates: 23 Jun 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Jun 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/75-77
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Memorandum by Waris Ameer Ali, "Note re Viceroy's Visit", on attempts to "coax or drive" the Indian Princes to accept the Federation plan.

Dates: 28 Jun 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Jun 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/78
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Letter from Patrick Donner MP, Prince's Gardens, London SW7 to WSC, invitation to spend weekend at Newtimber Place, Hassocks, Sussex. Also congratulating him on success of meeting on India in Manchester.

Dates: 29 Jun 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Jul 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/89-90
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Letter from Edward Russell (later 2nd Lord Russell of Liverpool) to Patrick Donner, expressing his disgust that opponents of the Indian White Paper had deserted WSC in the Committee of Privileges debate [carbon].

Dates: 18 Jul 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Jul 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/91-92
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Letter from Patrick Donner MP to WSC, forwarding letter from Edward Russell (later Lord Russell of Liverpool), on desertion of WSC by opponents of the Indian White Paper. Also commenting on Russell's claim that in India, no other name except his counted for anything in the controversy, and that he proposed to show the letter to members of the India Defence League Executive.

Dates: 19 Jul 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Jul 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/93
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Letter from Violet Pearman, PS to WSC to Hugh Orr-Ewing, India Defence League, sending letter from the Sind Hindu Sabha, asking for comments [carbon].

Dates: 27 Jul 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Jul 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/226/94
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Letter from Violet Pearman, PS to WSC to Patrick Donner MP, thanks for sending WSC copies of correspondence with Edward Russell [carbon].

Dates: 24 Jul 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 30 Jul 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/227/1-2
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Letter from Hugh Orr-Ewing, India Defence League, to WSC, on letter from the Sind Hindu Sabha.

Dates: 30 Jul 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Jul 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/227/3-9
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Letter from T H N Ayscough, Director Sind Hindu Sabha nad Anti-Sind Separation Conference Committee to London, sending resolution of the Sind Hindu Conference, held at Karachi, Easter, 1934.

Dates: 23 Jul 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open