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Reference FO 371/63535
Department/Office Foreign Office
Title Situation in India: preparations for the transfer of power, May 1947 (Folder 8)
Date 1947
Collection Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1964
Region South Asia
Countries India, Pakistan
Places Afghanistan; Assam; Bengal; Bihar; Burma (Myanmar); Ceylon; Chennai (Madras); China; Cochin; Colombo; Delhi; France; India; Iran; Karachi; Kathmandu; Kolkata (Calcutta); London; Madras (state); Mumbai (Bombay); Nepal; North-West Frontier Province; Orissa; Pakistan; Portugal; Punjab; Shimla (Simla); Sindh; Thailand; Tibet; Travancore; Uttar Pradesh (United Provinces); Yangon (Rangoon)
People Bajpai, Sir Girija Shankar; Bevin, Ernest; Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma); Goonetilleke, Sir Oliver; Hare, William, 5th Earl of Listowel; Iyer (or Aiyar), Sir Chetpat; Jinnah, Mohammad Ali; Menon, Vengalil Krishna; Moore, Sir Henry; Nehru, Jawaharlal ('Panditji'); Prasad, Rajendra; Shone, Sir Terence
Topics (Royal) Indian Navy; agriculture; army; banking; bonds; British Empire; British Government; business; capitalism; commodities; communications; communism; Constituent Assembly; consular representation; currency; customs; education; elections; execution; exports; famine; food; governor-general; Hinduism; independence; Indian Civil Service; Indian National Congress; international border; Islam; judicial system; labour; loans; maharaja; migration; military; Muslim League; nationalism; navy; oil; parliament; partition; peasantry; political parties; princely states; railway; Raj; repatriation; revolution; riots and disturbances; roads; Royal Air Force; socialism; steel; Suez Canal; tariffs; trade; transport; United Nations; viceroy; war; weapons; women
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