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PREM19/487
India (Prime Minister's visit to India, April 1981) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 357
Any docs withheld? 1

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81 Jan 30 Fri India: No.10 record of conversation (Alexander-Indian Deputy High Commissioner Singh) ["Prime Minister's Visit to India"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 3 Tue India: FCO letter to No.10 ("Sword of Shivaji") [Indian interest in sword from Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 6 Fri India: FCO letter to No.10 ("Burmah Oil and the Prime Minister's Visit to India") [possible settlement of dispute; Denis Thatcher's link to Burmah Oil] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 11 Wed India: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Your Visit to India: Voucher Quota for United Kingdom Passport Holders in India") [MT: "2 1/2 million unemployed is not a time to increase immigration"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 13 Fri India: FCO letter to No.10 ("Voucher Quota for United Kingdom Passport Holders in India") [Carrington believes that 'rate of admission of UKPH from India should be increased'] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 16 Mon India: No.10 letter to FCO ("UK Passport Holders in India: the Voucher Quota") [MT 'prepared...to indicate a willingness to see a modest increase in the quota'] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 18 Wed India: UK High Commission Delhi to FCO ("Immigration and the Prime Minister's Visit") [UK High Commissioner meets with Rajiv Gandhi] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 24 Tue India: UK High Commission Delhi to FCO ("Prime Minister's Visit") [Praful Patel to launch 'a strong campaign on race relations, nationality and immigration at the time of Mrs Thatcher's visit to Delhi and Bombay'] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 25 Wed India: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Carrington) [voucher quota for UK passport holders in India] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 26 Thu India: UK High Commission Delhi to FCO ("Mrs Gandhi's India") [assessment of the Indian scene prior to MT's visit] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 26 Thu India: Carrington minute to Whitelaw ("UKPH in India") [voucher quota for UK passport holders in India] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 30 Mon India: FCO letter to No.10 ("Proposed Visit by the Prime Minister to the Bhaba Atomic Research Centre in India") [possible consequences for relations with Pakistan] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 30 Mon India: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Your Visit to India: Voucher Quota for United Kingdom Passport Holders in India") [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 31 Tue India: Gilmour minute to MT ("Your Visit to India: Voucher Quota for United Kingdom Passport Holders in India") [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 1 Wed India: Alexander minute to MT ("Your Visit to India: UK Passport Holders") [case for 'making a gesture to the Indian Government on the voucher quota for UK PH'] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 3 Fri India: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Gilmour-Mayhew) ["Prime Minister's Visit to India: UK Passport Holders"] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 9 Thu India: UKE Islamabad to FCO ("Pakistan Current Policies") [briefing on Pakistan for MT's visit to India] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 9 Thu India: No.10 letter to Department of Trade ("Prime Minister's Visit to India") [HM Customs and 'folkloric' garments] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 10 Fri India: Department of Trade letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to India") [HM Customs and 'folkloric' garments; MT: "I do hope we have done everything possible within our powers"] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 13 Mon India: UK High Commission Delhi to FCO ("Visit of the Prime Minister: Race Relations in Britain and the Nationality Bill") [Indian press coverage] [declassified 2011]