Finding Aid Indian PoliticalIntelligence (IPI) Files, 1912-1950 Published by IDC Publishers, 2000 • Descriptive Summary Creator: India Office Library and Records. Title: Indian Political Intelligence(IPI) Files Dates (inclusive): 1912-1950 Dates (bulk): 1920-1947 Abstract: Previouslyunavailable material on the monitoring of organisations and individualsconsidered to be a threat to British India. Languages: Language ofmaterials: English, with a few items inUrdu and Hindi. Extent: 624 microfiches; 767 files on 57,811 pages. Ordernumber: IPI-1 - IPI-17 • Location of Originals Filmed from the originals held by: British Library, Oriental & IndiaOffice Collections (OIOC). • History note Indian Political Intelligence was a secret organisation within the IndiaOffice in London, charged with keeping watch on the activities of Indiansubversives (communists, terrorists and nationalists) operating outside India.It reported to the Secretary of State for India through the India Office'sPublic & Judicial Department, and to the Government of India through theIntelligence Bureau of the Home Department. It worked in close collaborationwith the British Government's Security Service (MI.5) and Secret IntelligenceService (MI.6). • Scope and Content The files contain a mass of previouslyunavailable material on the monitoring of organisations and individualsconsidered to be a threat to British India. They include surveillance reportsand intercepts from MI.6, MI.5 and Special Branch, and a large number ofintelligence summaries and position papers. The main thrust isanti-communist. • Arrangement This collection is organized into the following series and subseries. • IPI-1: Indian Political Intelligence Organisation and Personnel • IPI-2 : Islam & the Khilafat Movement, 1922-1940 • IPI-3 : Inter-Departmental Committee on Eastern Unrest, 1922-1927 • IPI-4 : Communism: Russia, 1922-1938 • IPI-5 : Communist Party of Great Britain, 1921-1948 • IPI-6 : Communism: India & Indian Communist Party, 1921-1950 • IPI-7 : Meerut Conspiracy Case, 1928-1933 • IPI-8 : Revolutionary and Terrorist Activities, 1914-1942 • IPI-9 : Control and Censorship, 1918-1949 o 9.1. Passport Control o 9.2. Arms Smuggling o 9.3. Tear Gas for Riot Control o 9.4. Subversive Publications o 9.5. Wartime Censorship • IPI-10 : Indian National Congress, 1928-1947 • IPI-11 : League against Imperialsm, 1925-1942 • IPI-12 : Other Organisations and Movements, 1921-1947 • IPI-13 : North America, 1912-1948 • IPI-14 : Axis Powers, 1924-1949 • IPI-15 : Other 'Country' Files, 1921-1949 • IPI-16 : Personal Files, 1916-1949 • IPI-17 : Miscellaneous Reports and Subjects, 1916-1949 o 17.2. Local governments’ fortnightly reports on the political situation 1929-1934 ▪ 17.2.1. Assam ▪ 17.2.2. Bengal ▪ 17.2.3. Bihar & Orissa ▪ 17.2.4. Bombay ▪ 17.2.5. Burma ▪ 17.2.6. Central Provinces & Berar ▪ 17.2.7. Delhi ▪ 17.2.8. Madras ▪ 17.2.9. North-West Frontier Province ▪ 17.2.10. Punjab ▪ 17.2.11. United Provinces • Selected Search Terms Colonies -- Administration. Diplomacy. Great Britain -- Colonies --Asia. India -- History-- Sources. • Related Material Researchers should note that an integrated finding aid for the British Intelligence collections is also available: • British Colonial Policy and Intelligence Files on Asia and the Middle East, c. 1880-1950. • Custodial History After the IndiaOffice was abolished following Independence for India and Pakistan in 1947 thefiles were transferred to secure custody within the India Office Records whichpost-1947 was a department successively of the British Government'sCommonwealth Relations Office, Commonwealth Office, and Foreign &Commonwealth Office. In 1982, when the India Office Records wereadministratively transferred to the British Library, the files were recalled bythe FCO. They were released into the public domain, after vetting by the FCO'sSensitivity Review Unit, and returned to the British Library's Oriental &India Office Collections in 1998. In 2003, the OIOC was integrated into the British Library's Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections. • PreferredCitation BL, India Office Record: followed by the relevant file number, not the fiche number. • Container List • IPI-1: Indian Political Intelligence Organisation and Personnel Microfiche no. Title: Pay and allowances of Maj Sir John Arnold Wallinger, 1 Dates: Mar 1912 - Nov 1923. Physical description: 58p File number: L/P&J/12/36; File 4645C/1921 Title: Correspondence with the War Office on an army rank for Wallinger 1 as a cover for intelligence work, Dates: Nov 1914-Aug 1922. Physical description: 33p File number: L/P&J/12/35; File 4645A/1921 Title: Philip Crawford Vickery's deputation to Europe, 2 Dates: Oct 1915-Nov 1918. Physical description: 61p File number: L/P&J/12/9; File 2812B/1918 Title: J A Wallinger: service for pension, and retirement, 2-3 Dates: Aug 1919-Nov 1926 Physical description: 92p File number: L/P&J/12/37; File 4645D/1921 Title: P C Vickery: appointment to IPI, award of OBE in 1922, leave, 3-4 allowances etc. Dates: Dec 1921 - May 1928 Physical description: 62p File number: L/P&J/12/8; File 2812/1918 Title: IPI office scrapbook of telegrams and reports, titled 'The political 4-6 situation in India', Dates: Sep 1921 - Feb 1922 Physical description: 240p File number: L/P&J/12/130; File 6692/1922 Scope & contents: Divided into nine sections, each with its own index.The subjects are: Gandhi Non-cooperation Civil disobedience Sikhs The fatwa leaflet Turkish treaty Secretary of State's telegrams of suggestion and encouragement Recent open outbreaks or outrages Volunteers Title: Deputation of John Hunter Adam, Indian Police, to IPI as a 6-7 replacement for Charles Augustus Tegart, Dates: Nov 1922 - Nov 1925 Physical description: 64p File number: L/P&J/12/15; File 3426B/1919 Title: Staffing of senior posts in the Intelligence Bureau, Home Department, 7 New Delhi Dates: Jul 1923 - Sep 1924 Physical description: 36p File number: L/P&J/12/181; File 8504/1923 Title: IPI: appointments of Tegart and Vickery, 7-9 Dates: Jan 1924 - Jan 1927 Physical description: 130p File number: L/P&J/12/39; File 4645H/1921 Title: IPI: office accommodation, 9-10 Dates: Jan 1924 - Jul 1947 Physical description: 153p File number: L/P&J/12/38; File 4645F/1921 Title: IPI: financial arrangements, salaries and expenditure, office 10-11 establishment, Dates: Jun 1926 - Nov 1929 Physical description: 82p File number: L/P&J/12/34; File 4645/1921 Title: India Office departmental print: Distribution of work in the Public and 11 Judicial Department, Dates: Nov 1926 Physical description: 6p File number: L/P&J/12/304; File 1462/1926 Title: Proposed award of an honour to Vickery for the Meerut Conspiracy 11 case and other services, Dates: Oct 1933 - Jan 1934 Physical description: 6p File number: L/P&J/12/40; File 4645M/1921 Title: DIB proposal for cooperation with the intelligence organisations of 11-12 British possessions to the west and east of India, including the Pacific Naval Intelligence Organisation, Dates: May 1936-Feb 1939 Physical description: 39p File number: L/P&J/12/613; File 619/1938 Title: Reorganisation of IPI and the future of the DIB, 12-13 Dates: Sep 1944 - Dec 1949 Physical description: 171p File number: L/P&J/12/662; File 1681/1944 Title: IPI: financial arragements, 14 Dates: Jan 1946 - Sep 1947 Physical description: 37p File number: L/P&J/12/41; File 4645N/1921 • IPI-2 : Islam & the Khilafat Movement, 1922-1940 Microfiche no. Title: Financial position of the non-cooperation movement: DIB reports on 15 (1) misuse of Tilak Swaraj and Khilafat funds, Dates: May 1922 - Nov 1925 Physical description: 38p File number: L/P&J/12/72; File 5857/1922 Title: Lausanne Conference: peace treaty between the Allies and Turkey, 15-18 (1- with SIS reports 'Lausanne Conference' nos 1-48 & new series 1-18, and 4) occasional issues of 'Eastern summary', 'Egyptian activities' and 'Muhammadan activities in Europe and the Near East', Dates: Nov 1922 - Jul 1923 Physical description: 264p File number: L/P&J/12/116; File 6498/1922 Title: Pan-Islamic intrigue in India, 18 (4) Dates: Nov 1922 - Jul 1923 Physical description: 37p File number: L/P&J/12/133; File 6835B/1923 Title: North Africa, including reports on Third International penetration 18-19 (4- plans and 'The Muhammadan movement in North Africa', 5) Dates: Oct 1924 - Oct 1925 Physical description: 65p File number: L/P&J/12/237; File 1841/1924 Title: Khilafat Committee: Abdur Rahman Siddiqi; Mahabharat Swaraj 19 (5) Party, Dates: Jan - May 1925 Physical description: 20p File number: L/P&J/12/241; File 121/1925 Title: SB reports on the UK Riff Committee, formed to support the Muslim 19 (5) struggle in Morocco, Dates: Mar 1925 - Apr 1926 Physical description: 46p File number: L/P&J/12/230; File 1671/1924 Title: Histories of the Non-Cooperation and Kihilafat Movements. Percival 20-22 (6- Clifford Bamford, Dep. Dir., Intelligence Bureau. Delhi, 8) Dates: 1925 Physical description: xiv, 270p File number: L/P&J/12/129; File 6692/1923 Title: DIB reports on the Khilafat Movement, 23 (9) Dates: Dec 1925 - Apr 1928 Physical description: 27p File number: L/P&J/12/110; File 6478/1922 Title: Khilafat Movement: Indian delegation to Turkey and the Hedjaz, 23-24 (9- Dates: Oct 1923 - Jan 1925 10) Physical description: 131p File number: L/P&J/12/111; File 6478D/1922 Pt 1 Title: Khilafat delegation to the Hedjaz, 24-25 (10- Dates: Dec 1924 - Nov 1925 11) Physical description: 37p File number: L/P&J/12/112; File 6478D/1922 Pt 2 Title: Second Khilafat delegation to the Hedjaz, 25 (11) Dates: Jan -