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11. IOR/L/PS/12/3810

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3810
Title:
Coll 30/90 'Persian claim to the island of Bahrain'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the claim of the Government of Iran (generally referred to as the Government of Persia) to territorial sovereignty over Bahrein [Bahrain]. The papers include: the Iranian claim in the light of the Bahrain oil concession; representations by the Government of Iran to the League ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
25 May 1934-23 Sep 1948
Extent:
1 file in 3 parts (519 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/12/3827

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3827
Title:
Coll 30/105 'Trucial Coast: Debai Affairs'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns affairs at Debai [Dubai] on the Trucial Coast. This includes both individual incidents involving British subjects and developments in the internal politics of Dubai. The policy of the British Government was one of non-interference in the internal affairs of the Trucial States, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1929-18 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (248 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/18/A136

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/A136
Title:
Memorandum on Makran by Sir W. Lee-Warner (Letter from India No. 214 (Foreign), 17 November 1898) 21 Dec 1898.
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a report by Sir William Lee-Warner (1846-1914) written during his tenure as Secretary to the Secret and Political Department. It is a critique of the Government of India's current policy towards Makran, which he claims has not been authorised by the Home Government. This pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Dec 1898
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/18/B27/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B27/4
Title:
A Note to the Vice-Consul in Tehran Proposing a British Protectorate on the Southern Coast of the Gulf of Aden
Scope & Content:
A handwritten note from [Arthur William Moore?] to the Vice-Consul in Tehran, Harry Lionel Churchill, in which the author suggests that the British formally declare a Protectorate over a portion of the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden recently evacuated by the Egyptians. However, he warns again...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1886
Extent:

4 folios

15. IOR/L/PS/18/B260

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B260
Title:
Mesopotamia Administration Committee. Note by Sir James Meston, KCSI, on the future system of government at Baghdad.
Scope & Content:
In this note, Sir James Meston, the Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, contests the idea that Baghdad should be brought under British control in any way. Meston warns that trying to control the area, particularly any Holy Places, would likely offend the Muslim populati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1917
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

16. IOR/L/PS/18/B367

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B367
Title:
Foreign Office Memorandum on Arabian Policy.
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum deals with the question of the political and financial obligations that the British Government should in future incur in relation to Arabia, in view of the forthcoming negotiations in Paris between Britain, France and the other allied powers on the subject of Arabia [the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:

1 file (10 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/18/B368

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B368
Title:
Memorandum by Colonel Cornwallis on the Future Policy of His Majesty's Government with regard to Subsidies to Chiefs of the Arabian Peninsula.
Scope & Content:
Printed memorandum issued by the Eastern (Arabia) Department of the Foreign Office and written by Lieutenant-Colonel Kinahan Cornwallis. The memorandum contains a statement of the policy that should in future be adopted by the British Government in regard to the payment of subsidies to rulers i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Dec 1920
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/20/C247

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C247
Title:
‘Précis of correspondence on international rivalry and British policy in the Persian Gulf, 1872-1905.’
Scope & Content:
The volume, stamped ‘Secret’ on the front cover and frontispiece, is a précis of British Government correspondence relating to international rivalry and British policy in the Persian Gulf between 1872 and 1905. It was prepared by Judge Jerome Antony Saldanha of the Bombay Provincial Civil Servic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:

1 volume (58 folios)

19. IOR/R/15/1/638

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/638
Title:
File 86/1 I (D 73) Eastern and General Syndicate - Proposed Oil Concession in Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The volume covers the proposal by the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited for oil concessions in Kuwait (also spelled Koweit) which were to be negotiated on the Syndicate's behalf by Major Frank Holmes. Included within the volume are copies of the draft agreements and correspondence between t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1925-1 Jun 1931
Extent:
1 volume (244 folios)

20. IOR/R/15/1/639

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/639
Title:
File 86/1 II (D 78) Kuwait Oil. Eastern and General Syndicate
Scope & Content:
The volume continues on from IOR/R/15/1/638 in discussing a proposed Oil Concession for Kuwait which is negotiated by Major Frank Holmes on behalf of the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited. The correspondence focuses on a proposed clause in the draft concession agreement, known as the 'Nati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 May 1931-30 Jun 1932
Extent:
1 volume (239 folios)