Coll 17/32 'Iraq. Visits of Iraqi nationals to India to study various works.' [36r] (71/74)
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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P.Z. 6295/38.
EXTRACT PROM LETTER PROM SIR M. PETERSON TO
VISCOUNT HALIFAX, DATED JULY 12, 1938./
15. It is appropriate here to refer to the great success
of the arrangements made earlier in the year for the visit to
the United Kingdom of the Director-General of Training and
Instruction in the Ministry of Education. It is not too much
to say that that visit and its satisfactory results have
profoundly changed the attitude of the Ministry of Education.
Trust has largely replaced suspicion, and an appreciation of
an eagerness for British education has grown up where American
theories once held the field. I think the moral is that the
same methods could with much advantage be applied to other
departments. I should like, for example, to be able to
arrange for a selected Iraqi irrigation engineer to visit India
to see some of the major irrigation works which have been
constructed there and the immense areas which through them have
been brought under cultivation and colonised. More frequent
visits to the United Kingdom by the Iraqi army chiefs might
also do much to improve the temper of the Ministry of Defence.
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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.'
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- front, front-i, 2r:3v, 6r:15v, 17r:17v, 19r:19v, 21r:24v, 26r:36v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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