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Coll 17/32 'Iraq. Visits of Iraqi nationals to India to study various works.' [‎33r] (65/74)

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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01 f P RKIGW OFFICE, S.w.l.
(E 4504/1988/93)
9th Deceraher, 1938
C? 2-^ ^
My dear Gibson,
If you refer to Bagdad despatch No* 315 of which
a copy was sent to you in our official letter E 4504/1982/93
of 8th September, you will see that in paragraph 15 Peterson
says that he would like to he able to arrange for a selected
Iraqi irrigation engineer to visit India to see some of the
major irrigation works which have heen constructed there and
the immense areas which through them have heen brought under
cultivation and colonised.
We have heen going into the whole question of
facilitating Iraqi visits of this sort. We see no prospect
ourselves of finding money on the Foreign Office vote for
paying for visits even to this country, let alone to India.
So far as the United Kingdom is concerned, much the most
hopeful way of arranging for visits without expense to the
Iraqi Government would seem to he through the British
Council/
J.P. Gihson, Esq.
KECD. PS;
10 DEC
' INDIA ,,

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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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