26 May 2003

British Intelligence on Afghanistan and its Frontiers, c. 1888-1946
IDC Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "British Intelligence on Afghanistan and its Frontiers, c. 1888-1946. Secret and confidential print from the British Government of India.
IDC Publishers is pleased to announce the publication of British Intelligence on Afghanistan and its Frontiers, c. 1888-1946 [...] The Intelligence files concentrate on Afghanistan' s internal and external affairs and trans-frontier tribes and personalities. The collection, from the India Office Records in the British Library, is unique in its breadth and accessibility.
* Military Intelligence. The Intelligence Branch issued a stream of practical handbooks, route books, military reports, tribal monographs, ' who' s who' compilations, and summaries of events. Sources were officers in the field and their contacts, together with local tribesmen who had been clandestinely employed.
* Political Intelligence. The Government of India Foreign & Political Department had a parallel intelligence interest, concentrating on Afghanistan' s internal and external affairs and trans-frontier tribes and personalities. It issued its own compilations, mainly sourced by political officers.
* Finding Aid. In addition to this primary source IDC offers a printed and online finding aid with an introduction and by A.J. Farrington, Former Deputy Director, Oriental and India Office Collections (OIOC), British Library.
* Approx. 17,000 frames * 410 microfiches * Including printed and online guide [...] - wl."
[Details of a microfiche publication - ed.]
[Related IDC Projects include: * British Intelligence on China in Tibet, 1903-1950; * Comintern Archive; * Comintern Archive: Electronic Inventory; * India Legislative Series; * Indian Political Intelligence (IPI) Files, 1912-1950; * Palestine: The British Mandate; * Palestine: The Legal Background - ed.]
URL http://www.idc.nl/catalog/referer.php?c=396
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Willemijn Lindhout (wlindhout[use"@"]idc.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Document
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30