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951. IOR/L/PS/18/A184

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/A184
Title:
'Central Asia, Persia, and Afghanistan. Bolshevik and Pan-Islamic Movements and connected Information'
Scope & Content:
This file contains summaries of reports, letters and memoranda concerning Bolshevik and Pan-Islamic movements in Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan. The file is divided into a series of sections, each of which contains summaries of reports, letters and memoranda. Prominent correspondents inclu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1919
Extent:

1 file (17 folios)

952. IOR/L/PS/18/B19/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B19/4
Title:
Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part IV)
Scope & Content:
A printed memorandum written and compiled by Adolphus Warburton Moore for the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, and dated 12 February 1884. The document is a continuation of 'Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part III)' (IOR/L/PS/18/B19/4), dealing ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Feb 1884
Extent:

1 file (8 folios)

953. IOR/L/PS/18/B301

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B301
Title:
Memorandum on British Commitments (during the War) to the Gulf Chiefs
Scope & Content:
This is a printed memorandum by the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office concerning British commitments during the First World War to autonomous or independent Arab rulers of the Persian Gulf, including the Sultan of Maskat [Muscat], the Trucial Chiefs of Oman (that is, Abu Dh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:

1 file (7 folios)

954. IOR/L/PS/18/B2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B2/3
Title:
'Memorandum on the Drafts of Despatches regarding the Affairs of Muscat and Zanzibar'
Scope & Content:
Printed memorandum, written by Henry Bartle Frere, member of the Council of India, London, between 15 and 20 July 1868. The document broadly discusses British imperial policy in Persia and the Persian Gulf, East Africa, and Western India. Its specific foci include the Zanzibar subsidy (payable t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15-20 Jul 1868
Extent:

12 folios

955. IOR/L/PS/18/B165

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B165
Title:
Report (with Maps) on the country adjacent to the Khor Abdullah, and places suitable as Termini of proposed Bagdad Railway, by Captain E W S Mahon, RE July 1905
Scope & Content:
The report, printed for the use of the Foreign Office, was compiled by Captain Edward Willoughby Sandys Mahon, Royal Engineer on 24 July 1905 to identify places suitable as termini of the Baghdad Railway. He advises Bussorah [Basra] as the best place, for strategic and commercial reasons. The r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1905
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

956. IOR/L/PS/18/B425

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B425
Title:
Translation of Lease by Sheikh Mubarak of Koweit of the Bunder Shweikh Lands and of the Acceptance of that Lease by the Political Agent, Koweit, both dated 15 October 1907
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum is a copy of a translation of a lease by Sheikh Mubarak [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] of Koweit [Kuwait] for Bunder Shweikh [Bandar Shawaykh] and of the acceptance of the lease by Major Stuart George Knox, Political Agent at Kuwait, dated 15 October 1907. The lease has twel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1907
Extent:

1 file (17 folios)

957. IOR/L/PS/18/C64a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C64a
Title:
Memorandum by Sir M Durand on the situation in Persia
Scope & Content:
This memorandum was created on the 27 September 1895 by Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Minister Plenipotentiary to Tehran, and printed for the use of the Foreign Office in December 1895. It outlines the current situation in Persia [Iran] and the steps which should be taken to improve the position of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1895
Extent:

21 folios

958. IOR/L/PS/18/C152

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C152
Title:
Quetta-Seistan Railway
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a report by the Secretary of State for India [Joseph Austen Chamberlain], which is addressed to the Prime Minister [Herbert Henry Asquith]. The report concerns a proposal, made by the Commander-in-Chief in India [Sir Beauchamp Duff], to extend the Quetta–Nushki railway to S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1916-4 Aug 1916
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

959. IOR/L/PS/18/C166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C166
Title:
Telegrams Relating to the South Persia Rifles
Scope & Content:
This file concerns control of the South Persian Rifles [South Persia Rifles]. It consists of the following telegrams: Secretary of State for India [Joseph Austen Chamberlain] to the Viceroy of India [Frederic John Napier Thesiger], 9 January 1917; Viceroy of India to the Secretary of State for ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1917-6 Feb 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

960. IOR/L/PS/18/B30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B30
Title:
Memorandum Regarding the Relations with the Tribes in the Vicinity of Aden, especially in Reference to the Amir of Zhali.
Scope & Content:
A memorandum written by the Assistant Political Resident at Aden, Major John Muir Hunter, suggesting proposals to formalise with treaties British relations with a number of tribes in the vicinity of Aden in order to limit the encroaching influence of the Turkish Porte. He also suggests pensioning...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Oct 1885
Extent:

2 folios