Coll 29/104 'Appointment of an Indian to the Tehran Legation (First Secretary or Trade Commissioner)'
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The file concerns the proposal of the Government of India to appoint an Indian as Trade Representative (or First Secretary) at the HM Legation at Tehran. After discussions and arrangements, the appointment was made in 1945. The file is composed solely of internal correspondence between the Poli...
The volume contains manuscript copies of secret letters, despatches, memoranda, translations of letters, intelligence reports and financial statements relating to diplomatic, military and logistical preparations for the British-led invasion of Afghanistan by the so-called Army of the Indus. Pac...
File 869/1904 Pt 2 'Arms Traffic: - Red Sea, Africa and Aden'
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This volume is the second of three successive volumes of correspondence (IOR/L/PS/10/32-34), relating to the British prohibition and suppression of arms traffic between ports in Aden, the Red Sea and the coast of East Africa. The volume contains copies of ‘The Somaliland Registration of Vessels ...
This file primarily concerns relations between the Government of the Hejaz (later Saudi Arabia) and the Government of Egypt. Most of the correspondence is between the High Commissioner at Egypt (George Ambrose Lloyd, Sir Percy Loraine, and Miles Wedderburn Lampson successively) and various Forei...
The Infraction of the Treaty of 1857 with Persia by the Local Officials of Bushire
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Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 7 of 1868, dated 20 July 1868, including an abstract and enclosures numbered 3-6, dated 26 June-20 July 1868. The enclosures relate to complaints received and made by Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pel...
The Apparent Intention of Syud Salim to Make an Attack on Muscat by Land
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Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 66 of 1869, dated 8 March 1869, with one enclosure numbered 2, dated 19 February 1869. The enclosure consists of a letter from Secretary to the Government of Bombay to the Secretary to the Governme...
The Subsidy Paid Since 1861 by the Ruler of Zanzibar to the Ruler of Muscat
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Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 100 of 1869, dated 20 March 1869, with an enclosure numbered 2, dated 10 March 1869. The enclosure consists of a letter from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay to the Secretary to the Gove...
'Letter from Sir Harford Jones Baronet to His Excellency Meerza Bozurg, dated the 15 May 1810'
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Copy of a letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], Sir Harford Jones, to the Vizier of the Crown Prince of Persia, Meerza Bozurg [Mīrzā Buzurg], dated 15 May 1810. The letter is in reply to Meerza Bozurg's letter, received by Jones on 14 May 1810 (IOR/L/...
Confidential Papers Acquired by the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, from his Secret Informant at the Camp of the Prince Royal of Persia, Abbas Mirza
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Confidential papers acquired by the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, from his secret informant at the camp of the Prince Royal, Abbas Mirza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār] (see IOR/L/PS/9/71/35). The document contains the subst...
Coll 7/37 'Afghanistan: sale of 25,000 1914 pattern rifles from War Office stocks and 7 million rounds of ammunition from Government of India stocks; negotiations with Afghan Government'
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This file is a continuation of Collection 7/36, reference IOR/L/PS/12/2203.It contains correspondence between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Secretary of State for India, HM Minister at Kabul, the War Office, the Government of India Foreign and Political (later External Affairs)...
