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IOR/L/PS/10/524
- Record Id:
- 040-000545510
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x0001a3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100045745359.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/524
- Title:
- File 53/1915 Pt 2 German War: Turkey; the Caliphate and Pan-Arab movement
- Scope & Content:
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the war with Germany and Turkey and implications for the Caliphate and the pan-Arab movement. The discussion in the volume relates specifically to the view of the Government of India on Sir Henry Arthur McMahon's correspondence and negotiations with Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, Grand Sharif of Mecca. Also included are the views of Colonel Sir Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes.
The volume includes the text of the Grand Sharif's letter and the text of Sir Henry McMahon's reply. Further discussion surrounds the advance on Baghdad, the protection of Muslim shrines and the deferment of any public pronouncement until the city had been captured by British forces.
The principal correspondents in the volume include: the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey); the Secretary of State for India; the Grand Sharif of Mecca (Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī) and the Viceroy (Charles Hardinge).
The volume includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, subject headings, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000545510 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/10 : Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Separate (or Subject) Files
IOR/L/PS/10/524 : File 53/1915 Pt 2 German War: Turkey; the Caliphate and Pan-Arab movement - Contains:
- IOR/L/PS/10/524, f 109 : Eastern Turkey in Asia
Click here to View / search full list of parts of IOR/L/PS/10/524 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0526]/040-000545510
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (218 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x0001a3
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1915
- End Date:
- 1916
- Date Range:
- 1915-1916
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 220; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
- Former External References:
- P 53 1915 Part II
- Arrangement:
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The subject 55 (German War) consists of 5 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/524-527. The volumes are divided into 5 parts with parts 1 and 2 comprising one volume each, parts 3 and 4 comprising the third volume and parts 5 and 6 comprising one volume each.
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)