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Series
Committee of Imperial Defence: Defence of India Memoranda (D Series)
Catalogue reference: CAB 6
What's it about?
CAB 6
This series consists of the printed papers or memoranda of the Committee of Imperial Defence (CID), concerned with the defence of India.Subjects covered include the army in India, the Indian Territorial force, the threat of invasion and Indian...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CAB 6
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Title (The name of the record)
- Committee of Imperial Defence: Defence of India Memoranda (D Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1901-1939
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of the printed papers or memoranda of the Committee of Imperial Defence (CID), concerned with the defence of India.
Subjects covered include the army in India, the Indian Territorial force, the threat of invasion and Indian Constitutional reform. Much discussion centred on concern for the strategic importance of the Indian railway system and its development, and the threat posed by Russian and Chinese railway networks.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological
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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)
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D Series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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6 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Available in microform only
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No future accruals expected
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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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From the establishment of the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1902, it was the practice that as well as keeping full minutes of the meetings, the Secretary would keep and file separately memoranda for consideration by members. In 1908, at the 99th meeting of the CID, it was established that both minutes and memoranda circulated to the sovereign and to all who had been present at the meetings, would be returned to the secretary, apart from copies sent to officials who passed them on to their successors in office.
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Copies information (Indicates existence, availability, location and format of copies)
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Photographic copy of the papers of the
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3813/
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Committee of Imperial Defence: Defence of India Memoranda (D Series)
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