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2401. IOR/L/PS/10/115/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/115/2
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 7 'Arms traffic: Persian Gulf. Debai incident.'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses an incident at Debai [Dubai] on 24 December 1910 in which a landing party from HMS Hyacinth entered Debai to search a house for illegally trafficked arms and came under fire from local residents. The correspondence includes detailed accounts of the incident by Brit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Sep 1910-21 Feb 1911
Extent:
1 item (70 folios)

2402. IOR/L/PS/10/447/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/447/1
Title:
File 959/1914 Pt 1 ‘Abyssinia Order-in-Council 1913. Question of trial or imprisonment of persons at Aden or Bombay.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains correspondence and other papers relating to Articles 37 and 56 of the Abyssinia Order in Council 1913, which concern persons being sent for trial or imprisonment to Aden or Bombay. It includes papers relating to the following issues: The question of whether or not expenses i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Mar 1914-27 Jun 1929
Extent:
1 item (436 folios)

2403. IOR/L/PS/10/649/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/649/3
Title:
File 390/1917 Pt 3 ‘Persia: entry of aliens into [Appointment of Swedes as Police Officials]’
Scope & Content:
This part contains copy correspondence sent to the India Office by the Foreign Office, relating to the following: applications for British visas to travel to Persia [Iran] made to the Military Control Officer at Stockholm by two Swedes, Carl Christian Rosencrantz and Johan Gustav Allan Sandberg,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1919-13 Nov 1919
Extent:

1 item (20 folios)

2404. IOR/L/PS/10/1127/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1127/3
Title:
File 3665/1924 Pt 9 ‘Arabia:- Nejd - Hedjaz hostilities 1924-25. Wahabi massacres at Taif 1924. Compensation for British subjects for losses sustained through Taif atrocities.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and reports relating to the massacre of the inhabitants of Taif during the Wahabi [Wahhabi] invasion of the city in September 1924. The papers specifically concern claims for compensation made by British subjects in Taif during the massacres. They include a number of eyewitness acc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1926-15 Jun 1926
Extent:
1 item (42 folios)

2405. IOR/L/PS/10/1222/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1222/1
Title:
File 4537/1927 Pt 1 'Iraq: Question of exemption from taxation of Shaikhs of Kuwait & Mohammerah'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minutes, memoranda, and other papers concerning the question of a tax exemption on date gardens in Iraq belonging to the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Shaikh of Mohammerah. The papers cover: a review of Britain's historic commitments in the region; increasing opposition to the exempti...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Sep 1927-5 Feb 1931
Extent:
1 item (607 folios)

2406. IOR/W/L/PS/10/60 (ii)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/W/L/PS/10/60 (ii)
Title:
Annexe Numéro 5A. SKETCH MAP OF THE PERSIAN GULF AND ARABIAN COAST
Scope & Content:
The map shows part of the Persian Gulf and part of the Arabian coast. The map also indicates settlements, with brief descriptions of topography and vegetation. A short note beneath the title gives the scale of the map at 1 inch to 60 miles. A reference note gives the key to the route of the Indo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1913
Extent:
1 map

2407. IOR/L/PS/10/291/2, f 260

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/291/2, f 260
Title:
‘Sketch map showing Turco-Persian Frontier as occupied by Persia west and south of Hawizeh’
Scope & Content:
Map labelled ‘Map No.1’ and produced in July 1912 by the War Office. A reprinted and updated version of a slightly earlier map included in the same volume (IOR/L/PS/10/291/1, f 39), it is a description of the region lying across the Turco-Persian (present-day Iraq and Iran) border, north of Basr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1912
Extent:
1 map

2408. IOR/L/PS/10/410/1, f 286

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/410/1, f 286
Title:
‘MAP SHOWING PETROLIFEROUS AREAS VISITED BY ADMIRALTY OIL COMMISSION 1913 SCALE 90 MILES = 1 INCH’
Scope & Content:
The first of two topographical maps that accompany the Final Report of the Admiralty Oil Commission on the Persian oilfields, which was published as Command Paper Cd. 7419 in 1914 and entitled ‘Agreement with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Limited ‘ (folios 32-50, 179-197, 282-287). The map bears...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 map

2409. IOR/L/PS/10/51/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/51/1
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 9 'Koweit:- Relations with Turkey. Sheikhs claim to Bubiyan, Warba & Umkasr'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern the claims of Shaikh Mubarak [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], Ruler of Koweit [Kuwait] to the islands of Bubiyan, Warba, and Umkasr [Umm Qaşr] against the competing claims of the Government of Turkey [the Ottoman Empire]. The principal correspondents are the British Ambassador a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1903-11 Apr 1910
Extent:

113 folios

2410. IOR/L/PS/10/451/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/451/1
Title:
File 1187/1914 Pt 2 ‘Persia – Policy. British Interests in the South. Russian Policy’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers, mostly correspondence and India Office minute papers, relating to British interests and Russian policy in the South of Persia [Iran]. It includes papers relating to the following: the condition of the Lynch road from Ahwaz to Isfahan (the Bakhtiari Road) the question o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jul 1914-18 Jun 1915
Extent:
1 item (149 folios)

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