'Central Asia, Persia, and Afghanistan. Bolshevik and Pan-Islamic Movements and connected Information'

Content

This file contains summaries of reports, letters and memoranda concerning Bolshevik and Pan-Islamic movements in Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan. The file is divided into a series of sections, each of which contains summaries of reports, letters and memoranda. Prominent correspondents include the Chief of the General Staff (officially known as the Chief of the Imperial General Staff during this period but referred to here as 'CGS'), the Directorate of Military Intelligence ('DMI'), the Secretary of State for India ('S'), the Foreign Secretary (abbreviated simply as 'FS'; given the department in which this file was produced it is most likely that 'FS' refers to the Foreign Secretary of the Government of India), and the Viceroy and Governor-General of India ('V').

The contents are listed as follows (the date ranges of each section are provided in brackets):

• I. Bolshevik Missions to Kabul (12 May-3 November 1919);
• II. Afghan Missions to Bokhura [Bukhara] and Khiva (8 June-3 November 1919);
• III. Intrigues at and with Tashkend (3 May-26 October 1919);
• IV. Afghan Mission to Kushk (3 June-14 October 1919);
• V. Movements in Afghan Turkestan (3 June-14 October 1919);
• VI. Afghan Missions to Moscow (28 May-2 November 1919);
• VII. Movements in Ferghana (2 May-20 October 1919);
• VIII. Bolshevik relations with Bokhara, Samarkand, and Khiva (12 June-29 October 1919);
• IX. Bolshevik-Afghan trade (27 July-12 October 1919);
• X. Barkatullah (18 July-13 October 1919);
• XI. Afghan aggression into Russian territory (2-31 October 1919);
• XII. Kasim Beg (24 July-19 October 1919);
• XIII. Pan-Islamism (30 May-30 October 1919);
• XIV. Bolshevik designs on Persia (24 July-31 October 1919);
• XV. Bolshevik Promises of Assistance to Afghans (16 June-2 October 1919);
• XVI. Miscellaneous (21 July-31 October 1919);
• XVII. Government of India's appreciations of position, etc. (23 June-10 September 1919).

Extent and format

1 file (17 folios)

Arrangement

The file contains a table of contents on the second folio. The table of contents is seventeen lines long and it gives the titles of the individual sections of the file. The rest of the file proceeds according to the sections listed in the contents.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/18/A184

History of this record

Date(s)

Nov 1919 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

BolshevismPanislamism

Places

PersiaAfghanistanCentral Asia

People & organisations

Secretary of State for India, United KingdomViceroy and Governor-General of India in CouncilDirector of Military IntelligenceChief of the General Staff

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