India Office Political & Secret Department confidential reports, memoranda, maps, and handbooks, as well as policy files describing the background and practicalities of the creation of a political administration, as well as of a social and an economic infrastructure, of the former Ottoman territories known as Turkish Arabia. Arranged in 10 groups:

BII-1 Gazetteers and handbooks; BII-2 Outbreak of the First World War: situation in Turkish Arabia; BII-3 Wartime military and civil administration; BII-4 Wartime economy: trade and communications; BII-5 Post-war administration and constitution for the state of Iraq; BII-6 Local government and education; BII-7 Kurdistan; BII-8 Iraqi boundaries; BII-9 Post-war economic development; BII-10 The oil industry Summary