I am pleased to announce that Oxford is running a trial of Foreign Office files on India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980. Access is via SOLO or OxLIP+.
These three collections consist of the British Government’s files on the countries of South Asia from shortly before Indian partition and independence up to 1980.
Nature of the material
- Reports
- Diplomatic dispatches
- Correspondence
- Newspaper cuttings
- Maps
- Photographs
- Minutes of meetings
- Political, economic and military analyses
- Statistical tables
Scope of the collection
This collection covers the years from 1947 to 1980, encompassing files on all the countries of South Asia: principally India and Pakistan, but also Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ceylon/Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and the Maldives.
The collection is split into three, chronologically based parts:
- Section I: Independence, Partition and the Nehru Era, 1947-64
- Section II: South Asian Conflicts and Independence for Bangladesh, 1965-71
- Section III: Afghanistan and the Cold War, Emergency Rule in India, and the Resumption of Civilian Rule in Pakistan, 1972-80
(See http://www.archivesdirect.amdigital.co.uk/FO_India/Introduction)
The trial ends on 1 December. Please send feedback to emma.mathieson@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
