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Creation of Modern Iraq, c. 1914-1921

  

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Internal Finding aids
Eye-legible headers on each fiche

External finding aids
Printed guide and online EAD Finding Aid at www.idc.nl/ead/408faid.html

Organization of the print
For the present publication, the material has been arranged in ten groups.

BII-1 Gazetteers and Handbooks
BII-2 Outbreak of the First World War: situation in Turkish Arabia
BII-3 Wartime military and civil administration
BII-4 Wartime economy: trade and communications
BII-5 Post-war administration and constitution for the state of Iraq
BII-6 Local government and education
BII-7 Kurdistan
BII-8 Iraqi boundaries
BII-9 Post-war economic development
BII-10 The oil industry

The first group (BII-1) comprises printed gazetteers and handbooks now preserved in the departmental libraries of the India Office Military and Political departments. The other groups (BII-2 through BII-10) comprise India Office Political and Secret Department subject files arranged broadly according to subject.

Within the ten groups, the following information is provided for each item:

  • fiche number
  • title or subject description
  • covering dates
  • OIOC reference number and (in the case of files) original P&S registry number; and number of pages or folios.
    		•  Creation of Modern Iraq, c. 1914-1921