Government of India Home Department records relating to Gandhi and the Civil Disobedience Movement
Scope & Content:
The files provide a detailed account of Government of India policy towards Gandhi and his civil disobedience movements, including the treatment of Gandhi and other members of the Indian National Congress while in prison, and the policy to be adopted during his periodic fasts. The papers give info...
Viceroy's Private Office: correspondence with Provincial Governors and their Secretaries
Scope & Content:
The purpose and scope of these reports was originally defined in two Despatches to India issued by the Secretary of State - Reforms No 1 of 17 March 1937 and Reforms No 3 of 25 March 1937 (see L/PJ/8/581 and L/PO/45 ff.393-96). It was felt that with the coming into force of the provisions of th...