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IOR/L/PS/12/4590
- Record Id:
- 040-000559695
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000559684
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000691.0x0000de
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100183148007.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/12/4590
- Title:
- Coll 45/9 ‘PROPAGANDA. Persian Broadcasts.’
- Scope & Content:
- This file contains correspondence on Persian-language broadcasts from February 1939 to June 1944. The correspondence is primarily between the External Affairs Department of the Government of India, the Secretary of State for India, the India Office, the Foreign Office, HM Minister at Kabul and HM Minister at Tehran. It includes the following matters:
- The rumours of a peace proposal put forward by Franz von Papen, German Ambassador to Turkey, and picked up from an unknown source by Radio Tehran
- The programmes on child welfare and history of the war and maps broadcast from Delhi in Afghan Persian [Dari] and their reception by audiences in Afghanistan
- The Persian-language transmissions of All India Radio to Persia [Iran] and Afghanistan, and possible extension of BBC Persian transmissions to Afghanistan
- The recent loss of HMS Prince of Wales, HMS Repulse and United States naval losses, and the possible use of German reverses in Russia, British successes in Libya, and the United States’ declaration of war on the Axis Powers to counter German propaganda
- The agreement of Sir Akbar Hydari to deliver messages from ‘two ladies of the old Turkish Royal House [Dürrüşehvar Sultan and Nilüfer Hanımsultan] now married to the sons of the Nizam of Hyderabad [Mīr ‘Us̱mān ‘Alī Khān Āṣif Jāh VII]’ on the anniversary of the foundation of the Turkish Republic
- The use of Persian broadcasts from London to ‘bring home to the Iranian Government and people the danger of German infiltration’ through broadcasting the number of German citizens present in countries already invaded ‘a) before the war and b) immediately prior to invasion’, followed by the approximate number of Germans present in Iran
- The institution by the BBC of a seven-day, weekly Persian broadcast
- The possible institution of broadcasts in Urdu from Angora [Ankara] to India ‘as counter to German Urdu broadcasting and partly as appeal to Indian Muslim audiences’
- The request of HM Minister at Kabul, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Kerr Fraser-Tytler, of an initial grant for propaganda in Afghanistan, given that ‘many of the potential enemies of Britain look on India as the Achilles heel of the British Empire’, and could make use of Afghanistan as the ‘obvious avenue of approach to India’ to disseminate anti-British propaganda
- The observations of the British Consul General at Meshed [Mashhad], Giles Frederick Squire, on the ‘popularity of the English broadcast news’, and that ‘if the same were to be broadcast in Persian... it would reach a very much wider public and would be immensely popular’.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000554996
037-000559684
040-000559695 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/12 : Departmental Papers: Political (External) Files and Collections
IOR/L/PS/12/4581-4608 : Political (External) Collection 45: Propaganda
IOR/L/PS/12/4590 : Coll 45/9 ‘PROPAGANDA. Persian Broadcasts.’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0012]/036-000554996[0046]/037-000559684[0011]/040-000559695
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (275 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1939
- End Date:
- 1944
- Date Range:
- 7 Feb 1939-24 Jun 1944
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 273; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. There are two foliation anomalies, f 1a and f 165a.
- Former External References:
- Coll 45/9
- Arrangement:
- The material is arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- All India Radio, 1936-
British Broadcasting Corporation, 1923-
Foreign Office, 1782-1968
Indian Political Service, External Affairs Department, 1937-1947 - Subjects:
- Dari language
Overseas broadcasting
Persian
Propaganda
Second World War (1939-1945)
Urdu language - Places:
- Angora, Turkey
Delhi, India
Kabul, Afghanistan
Tehran, Middle East, Asia