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Burma Office Annual Department Files

Catalogue reference: IOR/M/4

What’s it about?

This record is about the Burma Office Annual Department Files dating from 1940s.

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Reference

IOR/M/4

Title

Burma Office Annual Department Files

Date

1940s

Description

These files consists of annual files from the following departments: Economic Department, 1946-47 Areas of responsibility: Currency and Finance; Industry, Trade and Commerce; Rehabilitation; Communications and Relief; Miscellaneous Public and General Department, 1946-48 Police; judicial; jails; immigration from India; labour; health and medical; civil services Foreign and Reforms Department, 1946 External relations; frontier areas; constitutional reform; political developments Constitution Department, 1946-47 All aspects of political and constitutional developments in Burma (includes monthly reports from Commissioners of Divisions) Foreign and Frontier Areas Department, 1946-47 External relations; special commissioner for South-East Asia; frontier areas; United Nations. Files lacking: IOR/M/4/48, IOR/M/4/760, IOR/M/4/1130, IOR/M/4/1146

Related material

For registers and indexes see IOR/Z/M

Held by
British Library: Asian and African Studies
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Physical description

277 boxes (c 2677 files)

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/1a40e950-a421-4012-92ab-d406d4f014bc/

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Burma Office Annual Department Files