I.M. Stephens. Deputy Director, Bureau of Public Information, Govt. of India 1930-32; Director, 1932-37; Assistant Editor, Statesman of Calcutta 1937; Editor 1942-51; Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge 1952-58; Historian, Pakistan Government 1957-60.
46 Boxes, 1931-80.
Box 1 – Research into various leading Company figures; lectures and research notes about Partition, Pakistan, Bengal and various Indian history.
Box 2 – Annual reports of the India, Pakistan and Burma Association, 1961-67.
Box 3 – Annual reports of the India, Pakistan and Burma Association, 1968-69.
Box 4 – Further reports of the India, Pakistan and Burma Association, 1960-67.
Box 5 – Further India, Pakistan and Burma Association reports; correspondence with Prof. and Mrs Rushbrook-Williams; memoir
Box 6 – Urdu books and magazines; commemorative issue of The Statesman; MS of book ‘Back East’.
Boxes 7-10 – Correspondence relating to the Mount Vernon (Ceylon) Tea Company, 1954-56.
Box 11 – Papers and materials from a conference on Quaid-i-Azam, Islamabad, 1976.
Box 12 – Papers from the 1976 conference on Quaid-i-Azam.
Box 13 – Further papers from the 1976 conference on Quaid-i-Azam.
Box 14 – Papers relating to the I.C.S. dinner, 1976 and the Pakistan Society, 1979.
Box 15 – Iqbal centenary; interview about Pakistan Foreign Service.
Box 16 – MS copy of ‘Back East’ by Ian Stephens; Diaries of tour of Pakistan, 1979-80.
Boxes 17-18 – Working copy of ‘Back East’.
Boxes 19-21 – Collection of political pamphlets, many relating to 1947.
Box 22 – Collection of reprints and typewritten lecture notes, seminar papers etc., all by Dr. T.G.P. Spear.
Boxes 23 and 24 – Further collection of political pamphlets, many relating to 1947.
Box 25 – Diary of Stephens’ youth, kept by his mother (?)
Box 26 – Collection of newspaper cuttings and articles from The Statesman.
Box 27 – Collection of papers, lectures and articles by Stephens and various other authors.
Box 28 – BBC scripts and corerspondence; Middle East Society lecture, 1963.
Box 29 – Entries written for Chambers’ Encyclopaedia.
Box 30 – Personal correspondence files; papers relating to the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge.
Box 31 – Foundation of the Centre of South Asian Studies; correspondence and miscellaneous articles.
Box 32 – Notes on famine, literature; correspondence files, esp. re. Peshawar trip, 1948.
Boxes 33-35 – Papers relating to hosting troops in World War Two; Personal correspondence, 1940s.
Box 36 – News cuttings and correspondence, The Statesman.
Box 37 – Business and personal correspondence; staff notes, The Statesman.
Box 38 – Documents relating to home leave; Press Commission speeches, 1980s.
Box 39 – Stateman accounts and correspondence; Afghanistan trip; research papers.
Box 40 – Correspondence relating to Mt. Vernon Tea Estate.
Box 41 – Correspondence relating to Mt. Vernon Tea Estate; departure from India; Mountbatten clash.
Box 42 – Papers relating to departure from India and The Statesman.
Box 43 – Notes, reviews and correspondence about Stephens’ publications, 1950s.
Box 44 – The Statesman business papers, correspondence and notes.
Box 45 – Personal wartime papers, business papers and correspondence.
Box 46 – Papers relating to M. Ali Jinnah and Z.A. Bhutto.