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Overseas Development Administration and successors: Southern Asia Department; Registered...
Catalogue reference: OD 139
What's it about?
OD 139
This series contains records covering the development of policy and provision of bilateral and multilateral aid to countries throughout South Asia and the Indian Sub-Continent (Commonwealth and Non Commonwealth).
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- OD 139
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Title (The name of the record)
- Overseas Development Administration and successors: Southern Asia Department; Registered files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1987-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records covering the development of policy and provision of bilateral and multilateral aid to countries throughout South Asia and the Indian Sub-Continent (Commonwealth and Non Commonwealth).
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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These files are arranged in file reference order.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also:
Files created prior to 1987 can be located within series: OD 27 OD 34 OD 35 OD 120
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- ASL, ASM, ASN, ASO, ASP and ASQ
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department for International Development, 1997-1997
- Overseas Development Administration, 1979-1997
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 188 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2017 Department for International Development
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Asia
- Aid and development
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- The paper file series started in 1987 and ended in 2006
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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File prefixes in this series were first used in 1987/88 and allocated to the Department dealing with aid to countries in South Asia, at that time Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan. By the end of 1995 the Department was only dealing with aid to India and at the beginning of 1996 responsibility for this was delegated to the British Development Cooperation Office Delhi, (later DFID India). All the files concerning India using the ASL and ASN prefix were transferred to Delhi at that time. Therefore this series will also contain files sent to the UK for second review from DFID India.
The creating departments within the Africa Division for these files are defined as follows:
Overseas Development Administration (ODA):
1987 to 1990 Southern Asia Department;1991 to 1992 South Asia I Department; South Asia II Department;1993 to 1995 Southern Asia Department;1996 British Development Cooperation Office, Delhi.
Department for International Development (DFID):
1997 to 2006 DFID India.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14668930/
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