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1. IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 31-46

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 31-46
Title:
Sind Affairs: Matters Relating to Afghanistan, Kelat and Persia
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 2 dated 2 January 1857. The enclosures are dated 11-16 December 1856. The papers chiefly comprise two letters from Lieutenant-Colonel John J...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1857
Extent:
1 item (16 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/595

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/595
Title:
File 1484/1916 ‘Persia; Quetta-Mushki Railway Extension’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, reports, memoranda and minute papers, relating to military and commercial assessments of an extension to the railway from Quetta to Nushki, British Baluchistan [present-day Pakistan], and from Nushki to Seistan [Sīstān], Persia [Iran]. The volume includes: a l...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1916-10 Feb 1920
Extent:

1 volume (258 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/804

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/804
Title:
Ext 1237/43 'Representation of Middle East Supply Centre in Persia: appointment of Mustapha, agricultural expert'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises papers relating to requests made by the Ministry of Shipping to find a suitable agricultural adviser to represent the Middle East Supply in Centre in Persia. The principal correspondents in the file are the Ministry of Shipping and the Ministry of War Transport. The ministries...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jan 1943-22 Mar 1943
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/18/C152

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C152
Title:
Quetta-Seistan Railway
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a report by the Secretary of State for India [Joseph Austen Chamberlain], which is addressed to the Prime Minister [Herbert Henry Asquith]. The report concerns a proposal, made by the Commander-in-Chief in India [Sir Beauchamp Duff], to extend the Quetta–Nushki railway to S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1916-4 Aug 1916
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1530

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1530
Title:
‘File No. 16/32 Miscellaneous. Correspondence with the Residency, Bushire.’
Scope & Content:
Routine correspondence exchanged between the Political Agency at Bahrain, and the Persian Gulf Political Residency at Bushire. The file’s principal correspondents include: the Political Agent at Bahrain; the Persian Gulf Political Resident, or Secretary to the Political Resident; representatives...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
Mar 1931-12 Feb 1938
Extent:
1 file (307 folios)

6. Mss Eur F111/352, f 59

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111/352, f 59
Title:
‘Accompaniment to Report by Mr. H. Armstrong on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for a Telegraph Line from Quetta to the Persian Frontier.’
Scope & Content:
The map shows parts of countries including Iraq, Persia [Iran], and Afghanistan, the region of Baluchistan [Balochistan], the Persian Gulf, and the Northern coastline of the Arabian Sea. The route of a proposed telegraph line from Quetta to Ladis and Koh-i-Malik Seah is indicated with a red line...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1899
Extent:
1 map

7. Mss Eur F111/362

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111/362
Title:
Report on the Baluch-Persian Caravan Route and Nushki, Chagai and Western Sinjerani Districts
Scope & Content:
Report by Lieutenant Frank Cooke Webb Ware, Political Assistant, Chagai. Printed in Karachi at The Commissioner's Press, 1897. The report concerns the proposal to secure the trade route between Nushki, in what was at the time British territory, and Nasirabad [Zabol] in the Seistan [Sistan] regio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1897
Extent:

1 volume (34 folios)

8. Mss Eur F111/363

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111/363
Title:
'Report of Khan Bahadur Maula Bakhsh, Attaché to the Agent to the Governor General of India and Her Britannic Majesty's Consul-General for Khurasan and Sistan, on His Journey from Meshed to Quetta via Turbat-i-Haidari, Kain, Sistan, Kuh-i-Malik Siah and Nushki (7th April to 28th July 1898)'
Scope & Content:
Report by Khan Bahadur Maula Bakhsh on his journey from Meshed to Quetta in 1898. The report starts with a description of the circumstances that gave rise to the journey and the preparations before departure (folios 12-17). The main body of the report consists of his account of the journey, writ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1898
Extent:

1 volume (74 folios)

9. Mss Eur F111/364

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111/364
Title:
Report on the Nushki, Chagai and Western Sinjerani Districts for the year 1897-98 and on the Development of The Quetta-Seistan [Sistan] Trade Route
Scope & Content:
Report by Lieutenant Frank Cooke Webb Ware, Political Assistant, Chagai. Printed in Karachi at The Commissioner's Press, 1898. The annual report concerns the conditions and administration of the region and the development of the Quetta-Seistan trade route and follows on from Ware's similar repor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1898
Extent:

1 volume (72 folios)

10. Mss Eur F111/374

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111/374
Title:
Report on the Development of the Baluch-Persian Caravan Route and on the Nushki, Chagai and Western Sinjerani Districts, for the year 1899-1900
Scope & Content:
Report by Captain Frank Cooke Webb Ware, Political Assistant, Chagai. Printed in Calcutta at the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1900. The annual report concerns the conditions and administration of the region and the development of the Quetta-Seistan [Sistan] trade r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1900
Extent:

1 volume (28 folios)