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1. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7
Title:
‘Military report on Persia Volume I 1930’
Scope & Content:
Military report on the Khurasan [Khurāsān] and Seistan [Sīstān] regions of Persia [Iran], with maps and illustrations. Produced by the General Staff, India, and published in Calcutta [Kolkata] by the Government of India Press, 1931. Marked for official use only. The report includes chapters on:...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920-1931
Extent:

1 volume (73 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/253, ff 373-482

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/253, ff 373-482
Title:
Affairs in Herat
Scope & Content:
Enclosure nos. 3-33 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to events in Herat, and its status after the withdrawal of Persian occupation at the end of the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57. Subjects covered i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Sep 1857-22 Jan 1859
Extent:
1 item (110 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 427-453

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 427-453
Title:
Settlement of the Opposing Claims of Persia and Afghanistan to Seistan
Scope & Content:
Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 31 October 1871, concerning the settlement of the opposing claims of Persia and Afghanistan to Seistan [Sistan]. The papers lead up to the establishment of a commission of arbitration of the Seistan boundary, under the adjudication ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1871-9 Dec 1871
Extent:
1 item (27 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 507-509

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 507-509
Title:
Afghan policy on Seistan
Scope & Content:
Letter and Enclosure to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 6 December 1871. The letter encloses a report by the Agent at Cabul [Kabul], on the intentions of the Amir of Afghanistan in relation to Seistan [Sistan]. The Amir had given stringent orders to his dependent rulers not to allow any ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1871-2 Jan 1872
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/6/106, ff 144-154a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/106, ff 144-154a
Title:
Political No. 17 of 1873, Forwarding Papers on the Subject of Raids by Seistan Robbers into Afghanistan, and Asking for an Early Settlement of the Seistan Boundary Question
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 24 January 1873, forwarding papers on the subject of raids by Seistan [Sistan] robbers into Afghanistan, and asking for an early settlement of the Seista...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jan 1873
Extent:
1 item (14 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/100

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/100
Title:
File 2818/1906 'Persia: Seistan disturbances and consular guard'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence which discusses a serious disturbance in Seistan in which a crowd attacked the British Consul over measures taken to limit the outbreak of plague. The dispatch of Indian Army troops to the town is discussed in the context of a consideration of the efficacy of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1909
Extent:
1 volume (165 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/104

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/104
Title:
File 3414/1906 Pt 1 'Persia: telegraphs; Seistan telegraph lines; Meshed-Seistan; Meshed-Tehran; Robat-Seistan; Nasratabad-Koh i Malik Siah; proposed exchange of telegraphs with Russia'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discusses the construction of telegraph lines in Persia. Issues discussed include the implications for Britain's relations with the Persian government and how influence could be achieved. Also discussed is the British strategy for negotiating with the Russians who held a sphere of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1916
Extent:
1 volume (422 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/105

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/105
Title:
File 3414/1906 Pt 2 'Persia: telegraphs; exchange of telegraphs with Russia'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning the Anglo-Persian convention specifically as it related to telegraph lines in the Russian (northern) and British (southern) zones of influence: the transfer of the control of telegraph lines betwen Russia and Britain with reference to the zones of infl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1908
Extent:
1 volume (382 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/176

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/176
Title:
File 1329/1910 'Persia: Imperial Bank (Seistan Branch)'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports and accounts relating to a subsidy arranged for the Imperial Bank of Persia in May 1903. The subsidy was paid by the Government of India and related to the establishment of the Imperial Bank of Persia branch ba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1910
Extent:
1 volume (169 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/326

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/326
Title:
File 80/1913 Pt 2 'Persia: Telegraphs'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises one part discussing the administration of the Persian telegraph lines. The volume contains correspondence, minutes, notes, and telegrams regarding the restoration of the 1913 agreements between the Telegraph Department of the British Government and the Persian Minister of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2 Aug 1919-21 Jan 1924
Extent:
1 volume (405 folios)