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Performance TitleIndian Empire Society - Programme of Meeting to Insist on Orderly and Just Government for the Indian Peoples
Performance Date18 March 1931
Performance DayWednesday
Main PerformersSir [John] Mark Hunter (Secretary of the Indian Empire Society),
The Duke of Marlborough,
Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill,
Rt. Hon. Viscount Burnham,
Colonel Rt. Hon. John Gretton,
Hon. Esmond Harmsworth,
Major-General Sir Alfred Knox,
Rear-Admiral Murray Sueter,
Waris Ameer Ali - speakers
Set ListSpeeches,
The National Anthem: 'God Save the King'
Performance NotesThe Indian Empire Society was a London-based lobbying organization, formed in 1930 to promote the cause of the British Empire in India.

The Society came into being at a meeting in July 1930 held in the Caxton Hall, London, and its activists were mostly former members of the Indian Civil Service and included several former provincial governors of British India. Its principal goal was to resist the policy of Indian constitutional reform which successive British governments of the 1930s had begun to pursue. The first president was Lord Sumner. Winston Churchill joined in October 1930 and made speeches to the society on a number of occasions, including this event at the Hall.

Correspondence and papers of the Society from 1930 to 1948 are held in the Bodleian Library's Special Collections and Western Manuscripts section.

A complete transcript of Winston Churchill's speech at this meeting is available on the International Churchill Society website https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1930-1938-the-wilderness/our-duty-in-india/
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1931/29)
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Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1931/29Programme of Meeting organised by The Indian Empire Society to insist on orderly and just Government for the Indian peoples18 March 1931
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
IomozeadexipoirIndian Empire Society - Programme of Meeting to Insist on Orderly and Just Government for the Indian Peoples1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/382Indian Empire Society; 1930; British lobbying organisation
DS/UK/2028Churchill; Sir; Winston (30 November 1874-24 January 1965); KG OM CH TD DL FRS RA; British politician, army officer, and writer
DS/UK/2294Ameer Ali; Waris (12 October 1886-June 1975); CIE; Indian civil servant
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