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1. IOR/L/PS/5/480

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/480
Title:
‘ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY’, Vol 118
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of enclosures to despatches from the Government of Bombay’s Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee. The volume is divided into twenty-six items. Sind [Sindh] Affairs (IOR/L/PS/5/480, ff 3-16) Persia [Iran] Affairs (IOR/L/PS/5/480, ff 17-31) Aden A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, Farsi, and French
Date Range:
14 Jan 1854-28 Apr 1854
Extent:
1 volume (570 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/480, ff 43-92

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/480, ff 43-92
Title:
Persia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay’s Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 4 of 1854, dated 28 January 1854. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 1 December 1853. The papers relate to diplomacy concerning overtu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, Farsi, and French
Date Range:
28 Jan 1854
Extent:
1 item (50 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/480, ff 93-109

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/480, ff 93-109
Title:
Baghdad and Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay’s Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 5 of 1854, dated 28 January 1854. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 15 December 1853. The papers relate to affairs in Baghdad and Tur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Farsi
Date Range:
28 Jan 1854
Extent:
1 item (17 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/20/C158A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C158A
Title:
Treaties and Undertakings
Scope & Content:
These are three volumes containing bilingual copies of ‘Treaties and Undertakings’ between the British Government and Persian Gulf rulers, as well as related correspondence. The first volume, catalogued as IOR/L/PS/20/C158A/1, covers treaties and agreements with the Shaikh of Mohammerah [Khorra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
13 Nov 1899-21 Nov 1919
Extent:

3 volumes (122 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/20/C158A/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C158A/1
Title:
‘TREATIES AND UNDERTAKINGS IN FORCE BETWEEN THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND THE SHAIKH OF MOHAMMERAH 1899-1919’
Scope & Content:
A bilingual publication entitled ‘Treaties and Undertakings in force between the British Government and the Shaikh of Mohammerah 1899-1919’. This publication bears the printing statement ‘CALCUTTA [Kolkata] SUPERINTENDENT GOVERNMENT PRINTING, INDIA 1919’. A stamp on the front cover indicates tha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
13 Nov 1899-21 Nov 1919
Extent:

1 volume (52 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/1-118

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/1-118
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: letters received and sent
Scope & Content:
The records consist of correspondence received ('letters inward') and sent ('letters outward') by the Political Residency, Bushire. Much of the early correspondence is with the East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra]; later with the Government of Bombay in its various departments, other Brit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1763-1849
Extent:
118 files and volumes

7. IOR/R/15/1/38-118

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/38-118
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: correspondence received and sent
Scope & Content:
The records consist of separate volumes of letters inward and outward; secret letters inward and outward; and 'native letters' inward and outward (also referred to as 'translation books': letters from Native Agents at Bahrain, Shiraz, Sharjah, Muscat, and elsewhere, and local rulers and official...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1826-1849
Extent:
81 files and volumes (7642 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/119-144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/119-144
Title:
Subject compilations: letters received and letters sent
Scope & Content:
From 1850 onwards letters received and letters sent were arranged under general subject headings, e.g. Arabian Coast and Persian Gulf, Slave Trade, Commercial and General etc; correspondence in each section was then bound chronologically. Separate volumes of secret correspondence and Native lette...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1850-1855
Extent:
26 volumes

9. IOR/R/15/1/119-198

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/119-198
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: correspondence bound in subject compilations
Scope & Content:
The records consist of incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Political Residency, Bushire. The volumes are bound in subject compilations. The records are as follows: IOR/R/15/1/119-144: subject compilations, 1850-1855; IOR/R/15/1/145-179: subject compilations, 1854-1863; IOR/R/15/1/180-1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Hebrew, Hindustani, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1850-1918
Extent:
80 volumes

10. IOR/R/15/1/183-192

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/183-192
Title:
Bushire Political Residency correspondence: subject compilations
Scope & Content:
Subject compilations of secret and general correspondence. There were a number of holders of the office of Political Resident in the Persian Gulf during the period in question, but the following Residents: Captain James Felix Jones, Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1852-1900
Extent:
10 volumes (2105 folios)