Papers of Sir Andrew Clow, I.C.S. Posts in United Provinces 1914-19; Member, Viceroy’s Executive Council 1939; Governor of Assam 1942-47.
Given by Mrs. Oddie
Letters to and from parents, 1901 (from school) – 1914. Mostly letters from AGC’s mother, ending with his arrival in India, 1914.
Documents relating to education in Cambridge and I.C.S. examinations.
Clow Papers: Box 2
Papers of Sir Andrew Clow, I.C.S. Posts in United Provinces 1914-19; Member, Viceroy’s Executive Council 1939; Governor of Assam 1942-47.
Given by Mrs. Oddie
Volumes of diaries:
1 September 1911 – 12 July 1914.
31 December 1916 – 4 October 1918.
30 November 1921 – 18 July 1925.
3 November 1928 – 26 September 1929 and 29 April 1934 – 4 May 1934.
15 November 1936 – 17 August 1947 (lacking two periods travelling, covered in volume below)
21 November 1938 – 17 December 1938 (titled ‘America’) and 26 January 1939 – 9 March 1939 (Titled ‘Africa’)
20 August 1946 – 9 June 1947.
Clow Papers: Box 1
Papers of Sir Andrew Clow, I.C.S. Posts in United Provinces 1914-19; Member, Viceroy’s Executive Council 1939; Governor of Assam 1942-47.
Given by Mrs. Oddie
File 1: Documents relating to the war in Assam, 1942-1944
‘Account of operations by 33 Ind Corps from the start of the Assam campaign in April 1944 until the relief of 4 Corps at Imphal on 22 Jun 1944’. Includes a series of detialed campaign maps, orders of battle, casualty lists, 57pp.
TS account: ‘Main events of the war against Japan in the Naga Hills’, 7pp.
TS account: ‘The Kohima battle front’, 3pp.
Extract from H.Q. 33 INd. Corps’ no. 1250/1/G.S.I.(b), 22 June 1944, ‘Civil/Military Intelligence Policy’, 1p.
Fauji Akhbar, 26 September 1944, pp. 3-12, ‘We drove the Japs from Indian soil’.
Pamphlet: ‘Village defence parties: Assam’s Home Guard’
File 2: Planning the post-war political settlement
TS document, marked ‘Secret’, ‘Pakistan’. Policy document written by A.G. Clow, 22.8.1945. 5pp.
Series of policy proposals and correspondence with Sir Gilbert Laithwaite about potential routes towards independence; Clow proposes a cabinet mission, and writes an introduction to its members when it is agreed upon. Documents range from October 1939 to May 1941.
File 3: Broadcasts and lectures
Text of BBC broadcast on the Naga Hills, 8.10.1957. Includes documents from the BBC about the broadcast.
Text of a lecture to the Theosophical Society, Glasgow, 1958.
Text of a lecture on the administration of British India, n.d. Two copies of lecture text along with notes and corrections.
Collection of cartoons about Sir Andrew Clow’s railways policy.
File 4: Publications and Government reports
Final settlement report of the Basti District, United Provinces, 1915-19
