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.