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Coll 5/62 ‘India-Kabul Route: Question of establishment of an air service between India and Kabul’ [‎17r] (33/677)

The record is made up of 1 file (336 folios). It was created in 7 Jun 1938-1 Mar 1948. It was written in English. The original is part of the 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. .

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On th« last day flajlfcallab Man said that tha Canraraoea
had baan quits a suocass baeausa tha v»ub«Cawalttaas appoint*
ad had work ad out taohniaal datails for tha sstafelish»«it
oi Civil Aviation in Afghanistan* If and vh*i tha Afghan
Oovamnant daaidod to hava Civil Aviation in tha eountsar
ho had no doubt that India would bo a shod to start
isrviess botvoan Psahavar-labul-haadahar- tUatta-Karachi*
Xho Loadar of tha Indian Mission said that it would
probably bo halpful if a tantativa Draft of an Afrosftgnt
was praparod so that if and rtian tha Afghan Govaxucnt
wars in a position to start Air *arii£s in thsir country
tha Agraanant could bo enforaod* lajibullah Ah an said that
ho would axauino this point and tha tans of tha Indo-
Anarican and Indo-Iranian Agronsnts and suggast any
nodifiaations in thasa which nay ba necessary owing to the
geographical conditions of India and Afghanistan*
?• In tha and ha (Kajlbullah lhan) asked whether it
would ba possible for India to train a certain number of
Afghans in flying and other Allied natters during tha
period that no Civil Air connection existed between tha two
countries* Tha leader of tha Mission told him that it was
a natter which ho would hava to refer to hla Government
far orders* Xho General Manager of the Indian Motional
Airways said that if tha Government of India agreed to
the proposal 9 his Company would bo willing to afford tha
nsoassaiy facilitiaa subjsot of course to the settlamsnt
of paynent of charges mutually agreed upon* The General
Manager of the Crlsnt Airways ssld that his Camp any would
also aet in a similar manner* The Leader of the Mission
said that ha had no doubt that Mr* Abdur Bab khan* tha
Member in eharfee of the Communications in tha Interim
Government | as wall as Mr* Jinn ah would ba only too
pleased to help tha Afghan Government in this direction*
The mooting than finished with tha usual photographs ate*
being taken*
MV* Abdur Bah In khan.
30 . 6 . 47 !

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The file contains papers related to a number of unsuccessful attempts to establish civil aviation services between Afghanistan and India. The file includes related policy discussion over the use of Lend-Lease aircraft supplied by the United States, as a result of wartime proposals. It also includes intelligence report of rival negotiations between the Government of Afghanistan and competing powers: Germany, the Soviet Union (USSR), and the United States.

The file also discusses India's post-war civil aviation plans: see folios 122-131. An Indian Delegation sent to Kabul in May 1947 is the predominant topic between folios 7-58: see folios 15-24 for a detailed report on this mission. Folio 318v contains a list of Germans employed in Kabul in 1938.

The main correspondents are as follows: HM Minister at Kabul (William Kerr Fraser-Tytler and Giles Frederick Squire), officials of the Foreign Office, officials of the 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. , and representatives of the External Affairs Department of the Government of India.

The file does not include any papers for the years 1940 and 1942.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 file (336 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 337; 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.

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