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Coll 17/32 'Iraq. Visits of Iraqi nationals to India to study various works.' [34r] (67/74)
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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oouncilj iDut I fear thati the Council's activities cannot
possibly he extended to include arranging for visits to
India*
No doubt the Government of India too would find
it difficult, if not impossible, to invite the Iraqis to
send an expert irrigation engineer, free of all cost to
Iraq, to come and see the great work that has been done
in India in the way of irrigation*
V/e are, however, most anxious that everything
possible should be done to convince the Iraqi authorities
that, in view of the Anglo-Iraqi alliance, we are prepared
to go out of our way to help and advise them on their
current problems* And I may say that we have already been
able to go very far towards meeting the majority of
Peterson’s recommendations. V/e should be very grateful
therefore if you will explain the position to the Government
of India and find out from them whether, supposing the
Iraqis were prepared to send someone at their own expense,
they would give him a friendly welcome and arrange for him
to be shown some really big irrigation schemes.
No doubt it would hardly be possible for the
Embassy to invite the Iraqi Government to send one of the
irrigation/
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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.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (33 folios)
- Arrangement
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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- IOR/L/PS/12/2895
- Title
- Coll 17/32 'Iraq. Visits of Iraqi nationals to India to study various works.'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:3v, 6r:15v, 17r:17v, 19r:19v, 21r:24v, 26r:36v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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