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IOR/L/E/8/3323

Record Id:
040-000193408
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-000193408
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000188.0x00006e
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/E/8/3323
Title:

E 15/46 Part N (1) - Demands by India for Shipments of Food Grains

Scope & Content:

File includes:

  • Report by the War Office on the “Economic Situation in India – Food-grains” (August 1944)
  • Newspaper cuttings (June-July 1944)
  • Statement on the food situation by 27 Indian political leaders (Reuter and Press Telegram, New Delhi, 30th June 1944)
  • Memorandums by the Secretary of State for India on ‘Shipment of Food-grains to India’ (War Cabinet: 21st April 1944 and 27th June 1944)
  • Reports on the Economic Situation in India, by the War Cabinet Chiefs of Staff Committee (dated 18th March 1944 and 22nd June 1944)
  • Minutes of a series meetings of the War Cabinet Committee on Indian Food-grain Requirements, held in London from February 1944 to June 1944
  • Telegram from the Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to President Roosevelt, requesting urgent assistance from the USA for additional shipping in order that greater quantities of wheat may be imported into India from Australia, and a reply from President Roosevelt reporting an inability, on military grounds, to be of assistance (April-June 1944)
  • Minutes of a meeting of the War Cabinet Committee on the Indian Food Situation, held in London on 26th April 1944
  • Report by the War Cabinet Committee on Indian Food Grain Requirements (19th February 1944)
  • Seventh Report of the Shipping Committee (printed for the War Cabinet, January 1944)
  • Note, by the Secretary of State for the Dominions and a Memorandum by the Secretary of State for India, regarding Shipments of Food Grains to India (printed for the War Cabinet, January-February 1944)
  • Speech on the Food Situation in India in 1943, by the Food Member of the Governor-General’s Council [and other papers] (London: HMSO, 1943) Cmd.6479
  • Article (by Ram Dhan Singh, S Rattan Singh and Mohammad Rafiq) published in Indian Farming, July 1943, entitled “Optimum Proportions of Grains Capable of Admixture with Wheat”

Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Project / Collection:
India Office Records
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-000184227
036-000190085
040-000193408
Is part of:
IOR/L/E : Economic Department Records
IOR/L/E/8 : Departmental Papers: Annual Files

 

IOR/L/E/8/3323 : E 15/46 Part N (1) - Demands by India for Shipments of Food Grains
Hierarchy:
032-000184227[0007]/036-000190085[3325]/040-000193408
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/E
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 file
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1943
End Date:
1944
Date Range:
Oct 1943-Aug 1944
Era:
CE
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