Telegram from Sir Terence Allen Shone on the situation in India (New Delhi, 10 September 1947)
Texte On 10 September 1947, Sir Terence Allen Shone, High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to India, sends a telegram to Christopher Addison, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, in which he reports on the development of the situation in India and Pakistan after the partition of the British Indian Empire. He particularly refers to some press articles and mentions the communal trouble between Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs as well as the problem of refugees and population movements.
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Source: SHONE, Terence Allen. [Telegram. Internal Situation in India. Sir T. Shone to Viscount Addison (10 September 1947)]. Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Conservé à: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). DO - Records created or inherited by the Dominions Office, and of the Commonwealth Relations and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, General Records of the Commonwealth Relations Office and Records of the General Divisions of the Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office. Political situation in India since independence. 01/01/1947-31/12/1947, DO 142/259.
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