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Indian Political Intelligence (IPI) Files, 1912-1950

  

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Guide
Printed item list by series, and index.

Content note
Organized into the following series:
  • Indian Political Intelligence: organisation and personnel, 1912-1949;
  • Islam and the Khilafat Movement, 1922-1927;
  • Inter-Departmental Committee on Eastern Unrest, 1922-1927;
  • Communism: Russia, 1922-1938;
  • Communist Party of Great Britain, 1921-1948;
  • Communism: India and Indian Communist Party, 1921-1950;
  • Meerut Conspiracy Case, 1928-1933;
  • Revolutionary and terrorist activities, 1914-1942;
  • Control and censorship, 1918-1949;
  • Indian National Congress, 1928-1947;
  • League against Imperialism, 1925-1942;
  • Other organisations and movements, 1921-1947;
  • North America, 1912-1948;
  • Axis Powers, 1924-1949;
  • Other 'country files', 1921-1949;
  • Personal files, 1916-1949;
  • Miscellaneous reports and subjects, 1924-1949.

    Language note
    Text primarily in English, but some items in Urdu and Hindi.

    Provenance
    After the abolition of the India Office, the files were transferred to secure custody at the India Office Records which post-1947 was successively under the British Government's Commonwealth Relations Office, Commonwealth Office, and Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 1982, when the India Office Records were administratively transferred to the British Library, the files were recalled by the FCO. They were released into the public domain, after vetting by the FCO's Sensitivity Review Unit, and returned to the British Library's Oriental and India Office Collections in 1998.
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