File 3443/1914 Pt 1 'German War: Turkish and German intrigues in India'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- File 3443/1914 Pt 1 'German War: Turkish and German intrigues in India'
- Date:
- 1914/1915
- Description:
- Abstract: The volume contains correspondence regarding the movements and activities of Pan-Islamic activists in India, Afghanistan and North Africa during the first year of the First World War. The correspondence is particularly concerned with possible German and Ottoman support for the activists in carrying out destabilising activities against British and other Allied regimes. The primary correspondents are: Foreign Office; Political Resident, Persian Gulf; Government of India; Admiralty; British Consul, Addis Ababa; British Embassy, Cairo; British Embassy, Constantinople; British Embassy, Rome; British Consulate, Smyrna; British Legation, Tehran. Much of the correspondence covers suspected anti-British agitators believed to be in or travelling to India. Other topics covered include:A reported purchase of rifles by a German company with the intention of arming Pan-Islamists in India (ff 165-175)A suggestion that Muslim rulers of Indian states should be persuaded to make pro-British statements (ff 137-140)Intelligence received from a German source that an unnamed Indian ruler has ordered a large amount of arms from Germany (ff 108-115)Reports that the German diplomat and archaeologist Max von Oppenheim is intending to stir up anti-British feeling in Iraq, Persia [Iran] and Afghanistan (ff 4-6 and 15-20).The volume contains a single folio in French (f 41), a communication from the Russian Consul in Turbat-i-Haidari [Torbat-e Heydarieh], Persia. The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 177; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Surveillance
Intelligence
Max Oppenheim
Government of the German Empire
Government of the Ottoman Empire - Geographic region:
- North Africa
Persia
India
Afghanistan - Rights:
- غير معروف
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000419.0x00016f_ar
81055/vdc_100000000419.0x00016f_en
IOR/L/PS/10/472
IOR/L/PS/10/472