India (nation)
Found in 7962 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 24 Dec 1931
Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Lloyd, with thanks for sending copies of Hansard for House of Commons debate on India, congratulating him on his performance: "the Government are increasingly carrying out our policy while pretending to the Indians that they are doing something different". [Carbon].
(Untitled), 03 Sep 1931
Letter from WSC to Sir Ernley Blackwell, [Legal Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office], on the cancellation of his United States lecture tour, because of the possibility of a General Election, [and the death threat from the Ghadr Indian Revolutionary Party], suggesting that the Home Office keep a close watch on the young Indians in London, as they would certainly be in a bad mood when the Round Table Conference reached its inevitable breakdown. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 27 Aug 1931
Letter from Sir Ernley Blackwell [Legal Assistant Under- Secretary of State], Home Office, to WSC, with notification that the "Ghada" [Ghadr] Indian Revolutionary Party were making plans for an attempt on WSC's life during his autumn tour of the United States, and asking for details of his movements.
(Untitled), 26 Jul 1905
Letter from Colonel Charles a Court Repington (East Mascalls, Lindfield, Sussex) to WSC referring to the Indian drafts for the infantry during 1906-1907 and asserting his own political independence.
(Untitled), 27 Aug 1905
Letter from Sir Arthur Godley (the Big House, Manfield, Darlington, [County Durham]), to WSC on proofs of WSC's life of Lord Randolph Churchill and the need for only one war minister in the Viceroy's Council in India.
(Untitled), 05 Oct 1905
Letter from Lord Curzon (Viceregal Lodge, Simla, [India]) to WSC on Curzon's dispute with Lord Kitchener over the respective powers in India of the Viceroy and the Commander- in-Chief.
(Untitled), 12 Oct 1905
Letter from Arthur Godley (India Office, Whitehall, [London]) to WSC enclosing and commenting on a petition to WSC from the Benares Union Club, India. See CHAR 2/23/33.
(Untitled), [1905]
Petition from Narayam Ras Paindsay, president of the Benares Union Club (Assembly Rooms, 6 Nayaghat, Benares, [India]) to WSC asking him to take up the case of Hindu temples in Benares allegedly pillaged by the government of India. Printed. Sent with CHAR 2/23/32.
(Untitled), 20 Jun 1906
Letter from Sir Bindon Blood, Lieutenant General commanding the forces in the Punjab (Murree, [India]), to WSC on reform of the Indian army and the fallacious belief that conditions on the North-West frontier of India are similar to those on European frontiers.
(Untitled), 01 Aug 1906
Letter from Sir Bindon Blood, Lieutenant-General commanding the forces in Punjab (Murre, [India]) to WSC putting forward proposals for the reform of the Indian Army.
(Untitled), 21 May 1907
Letter from Arthur Hirtzel (India Office but writing "in the country") to WSC on an alleged Indian plot to assassinate John Morley [later Lord Morley].
(Untitled), 20 Dec 1905
Letter from Lord Brooke ("Guy") (office of the Inspector- General of Cavalry in India, Meerut) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment [as Under-Secretary of State for Colonies] and describing his (Brooke's) work with General Douglas Haig [later Lord Haig] in India.
(Untitled), 26 May 1945
Letter from Leo Amery [Secretary of State for India] (India Office, Whitehall) to WSC thanking him for appointing 11th Lord Scarbrough as his Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State; and stating that it will be beneficial to keep India outside party controversy during and after the election campaign. Signed.
(Untitled), 20 Mar [1898]
Letter from WSC (Peshawar, 4th Hussars, India) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] in which he comments on his appointment as orderly officer to Sir William Lockhart; discusses his duties; comments on a recent "skirmish"; describes Peshawar and its climate; recommends that Jack should write down his impressions of India; comments on a virulent plague of which 400 people a day in Bombay have been dying; and describes Colonel [John] Broadbent as a "stupid old man - but amiable". Signed manuscript.
(Untitled), 24 Dec 1884
Telegram from James Peter (Sylthet [India]) to Lord Randolph Churchill on behalf of the "teaplanters of Sylthet" welcoming him, wishing him a successful tour of India which he hopes will show him "the wants of the country more especially of our great and struggling industry", and inviting him to visit.
(Untitled), 26 Jun 1885
Typescript transcript of a letter from Lord Randolph Churchill, Secretary of State for India, to Grant Duff [Governor of Madras, India] marked private in which he says that he would be grateful if Duff would invite him to Madras during his visit to India, explains that he has been obtaining information relating to his new position and expresses the hope that Duff will communicate his opinions about the government of Madras.
(Untitled), 17 Jul 1885
Typescript transcript of a letter from Lord Randolph Churchill, Secretary of State for India, to Grant Duff [Governor of Madras, India] informing him that Queen [Victoria] has appointed Arthur Collins as Chief Justice of Madras and commenting on difficulties posed by Russia to the administration of India in negotiations over the Afghan boundary.
(Untitled), 20 Aug 1885
(Untitled), 09 Sep 1885
(Untitled), 17 Nov 1885
(Untitled), 04 Dec 1885
Typescript transcript of a letter from Lord Randolph Churchill, Secretary of State for India, to Grant Duff [Governor of Madras, India] in which he attributes the success of the Burma [later Myanmar] expedition to the swift dispatch of the expedition from Madras and says that he is sure that the Conservative party will not be successful in the future General Election.
(Untitled), 10 Dec 1885
(Untitled), 27 Dec 1885
Typescript transcript of a letter from Lord Randolph Churchill, Secretary of State for India, to Grant Duff [Governor of Madras, India] in which he thanks Duff for his memorandum on the subject of the native army in India, reports that his conversation with Mr Webster was a success and discusses the Conservative government's decision to move a vote of no confidence and then retire "with honour & joy" and William Gladstone's stance on Home Rule.