Coll 17/32 'Iraq. Visits of Iraqi nationals to India to study various works.'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Coll 17/32 'Iraq. Visits of Iraqi nationals to India to study various works.'
- Date:
- 1938/1940
- Description:
- Abstract: 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 (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.Physical description: 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 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.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Irrigation
- Geographic region:
- India
- Rights:
- رخصة المشاع الإبداعي لأغراض غير تجارية
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000602.0x0001b6_ar
81055/vdc_100000000602.0x0001b6_en
IOR/L/PS/12/2895
IOR/L/PS/12/2895