| Beskrivelse | Correspondence with British officials about Bengal and India. Includes letters from J R Wilkinson, Government House, Calcutta; Wedgwood Benn, MP, Secretary of State for India. Letters in 1937 record Leonard Elmhirst's intercession on behalf of several Hyderabad officials denied permits for travel to Russia by the Passport Office. Replies from Lords Linlithgow and Zetland explain British government policy on educational exchange programmes between India and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1937. There is a guest list and seating plan for a dinner at Government House, Calcutta, 26 June 1944 which was attended by Elmhirst and Cecil Beaton, among others. Correspondence in 1946 with Captain J R Hughes of Government House raises the subject of fisheries in India, and mentions the Damodar Valley project. There is also a programme for a visit of the Governor of Bengal to Santiniketan, about 1944, and other correspondence with British and Indian officials, largely about food issues. Lastly there is a printed copy of the text of a broadcast address by Sir Frederick Burrows, Governor of Bengal, 7 Mar 1946, discussing agriculture, food shortages and rationing. |