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Coll 17/32 'Iraq. Visits of Iraqi nationals to India to study various works.' [‎4v] (8/74)

The record is made up of 1 file (33 folios). It was created in 9 Dec 1938-20 Feb 1940. 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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The file contains papers relating to the proposed visit of an Iraqi irrigation engineer to India, to see some of the major irrigation works which had been constructed there, and the areas which had been brought under cultivation and colonised through the irrigation works.

The papers mostly consist of correspondence between 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. (J P Gibson, Roland Tennyson Peel, and others) and the following: the Foreign Office, the External Affairs Department of the Government of India (Sir Herbert Aubrey Francis Metcalfe, O K Caroe, and others), and the British Council.

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

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1 file (33 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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 37; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-36; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

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Coll 17/32 'Iraq. Visits of Iraqi nationals to India to study various works.' [‎4v] (8/74), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/2895, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100060892402.0x000009> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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