The papers are as follows: Financial and Currency Position of the Government of India (India Office, 15 January 1918) Terms of Agreement with the United States Government for the Purchase of Silver for India under the Pittman Act (India Office, 19 July 1918).
A series of memoranda by the several experts on the following subjects: The political situation Unrest Indians overseas The financial position India's foreign relations Fiscal autonomy. Submitted by 'A.H.' (Sir Arthur Hirtzel) to the Secretary of State for India.
The file contains similar material to the memoranda in Mss Eur D713/3, but supplemented and revised in 1925. The memoranda concern: The political situation Unrest The fiscal autonomy 'convention' Indians overseas Indian financial position, 1924-5 and 1925-6 Note on the principal Indian Civil Se...
The memoranda contain similar material to Mss Eur D713/4, but revised in 1929: 1. A brief summary of the political history of the reforms in India 2. Unrest 3. India's foreign relations and the Indian States 4. Indian financial position 5. Financial relations between His Majesty's Government and...
'Memorandum respecting British Interests in the Persian Gulf.'
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The memorandum was originally compiled on 12 February 1908 and contains information compiled by the India Office on British political and commercial interests in the Persian Gulf, including Pearl Fisheries; General Trade Statistics and German Competition; Lighthouses; and British Cables. The me...
Historical Summary of Events in Territories of the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Arabia affecting the British Position in the Persian Gulf, 1907-1928
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The file is entitled Summary of Events in Territories of the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Arabia affecting the British Position in the Persian Gulf, 1907-1928 (printed by the Committee of Imperial Defence, October 1928). Includes sections on The Ottoman Empire, Persia, Arabia (Nejd [Najd]), Moham...
Papers of Lt (later Lt-Col) David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer and Emily Overend Lorimer
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These papers are composed of two files as follows: D 922/1 (which is itself divided into two physical volumes): an account of a journey in Kashmir in 1898-99 written by Lt (later Lt-Col) David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer of the Indian Army (folios 1-262). Copies of letters sent by the linguist, p...
An Account of a Journey in Kashmir by David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer and Letters from Emily Overend Lorimer to her Parents sent from Bahrain and Kerman
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This file consists of two separate physical files as follows: 1) An account of a journey in Kashmir in 1898-99 written by David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer of the Indian Army. His account is entitled 'Three Months of Privilege Leave'. It contains his observations on the languages, peoples, trans...
'En route from Bandar Abbas to Kerman. The Village of Kishku'
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This file consists of a letter that was sent from Emily Overend Lorimer to her parents, Thomas George Overend and Hannah Overend (née Kingsbury). The letter describes the overland journey from Bandar Abbas to Kerman that Emily and her husband, David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer (referred to as 'Loc...
Diaries of Sir Arthur Hirtzel (1870-1937), India Office 1894-1930, Private Secretary to Secretary of State 1903-09, Permanent Under-Secretary 1924-30; with Index, and Press Cuttings Volume.
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This fonds consists of four volumes of diaries of Sir Arthur Hirtzel, an index volume to the diaries, and a volume of related newspaper cuttings (and some other documents). The diaries cover the period 1906-1909, when Hirtzel was Private Secretary to Secretary of State for India, John Morley (Vi...
