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771. IOR/L/PS/9/76/291

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/291
Title:
Bulletin from Afghanistan
Scope & Content:
A bulletin concerning events in Afghanistan, written in French, dated Bagdad [Baghdad], 8 November 1802. The bulletin describes a state of calm in Candahar [Kandahar] after the defeat of the Gilgeis [Ghilzai] faction by Chahzadé Kiamran [Kāmrān Durrani] and the activities of Mahmoud Chah [Mahmūd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
8 Nov 1802
Extent:
1 item (1 folio)

772. IOR/L/PS/10/27/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/27/1
Title:
File 733/1904 Pt 3 'Muscat :- Commercial Treaties.'
Scope & Content:
The item discusses a proposal to revise the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation signed between Great Britain and Muscat in 1892. The correspondence includes the opinions of the India Office, the Government of India, the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, the Board of Trade, the Poli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Feb 1903-23 Mar 1914
Extent:

1 item (141 folios)

773. IOR/L/PS/10/30/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/30/1
Title:
File 868/1904 Pt 1 'Consular: Exemption of Foreign Consular Officers from Imperial and Municipal Taxation'
Scope & Content:
Part 1 concerns exemption of Foreign Consular officers from Imperial and Municipal Taxation. It contains: correspondence regarding the claim of the Consul-General for France at Calcutta to exemption from Municipal taxation; privileges to the Persian and Turkish Consuls-Generals in the matter of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Aug 1884-18 Apr 1911
Extent:
1 item (53 folios)

774. IOR/L/PS/10/30/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/30/2
Title:
File 868/1904 Pt 2 'Consular: Exemption of Foreign Consular Officers in India from Customs duties'
Scope & Content:
Part 2 concerns the exemption of Foreign Consular Officers in India from customs duties. It contains: customs concessions to German Consular Officers; treatment for Customs purposes of articles imported into India for the official use of the German Consulates; claims of Russian Consul General a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Sep 1903-11 Nov 1910
Extent:
1 item (150 folios)

775. IOR/L/PS/10/47/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/47/2
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 2 'Koweit:- Postal arrangements. Establishment of a regular Post Office.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns proposals for the opening of a Post Office at Koweit [Kuwait]. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Major Percy Zachariah Cox); the Political Agent at Kuwait (from 1904 Major Stuart George Knox; from 1909, Captain William Henry Irvine Sh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Jan 1899-23 Apr 1915
Extent:

120 folios

776. IOR/L/PS/10/50/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/50/1
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 6 'Koweit:- Status of Koweitis in Persia.'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern the status of citizens of Koweit [Kuwait] in Persia, particularly in view of the fact that the British Government had not declared a formal protectorate over Kuwait, and that sovereignty over Kuwait was claimed by the Ottoman Empire. The principal correspondents are the Polit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Jun 1904-30 Aug 1905
Extent:

77 folios

777. IOR/L/PS/10/51/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/51/2
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 10 'Koweit:- Relations with Turkey. Sheikh's properties at Fao and Fadaghia'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern relations between Shaikh Mubarak [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], Ruler of Koweit [Kuwait] and the Government of Turkey [the Ottoman Empire]; particularly in regard to the purchase by the Shaikh of date gardens at Fao [Al Fāw] on the Shatt-al-Arab, and property at Fadaghia, near ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Jan 1908-18 Sep 1912
Extent:

199 folios

778. IOR/L/PS/10/74/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/74/1
Title:
File 600/1905 Pt 1 'Aden Hinterland: Treaty with Dthala'
Scope & Content:
Part 1 of the file relates to the 1905 revision of the treaty with Shaif bin Sef bin Abdul Hadi bin Hasan [Shā’if ibn Sayf al-‘Amirī], Amir of Dthala (also sometimes written Dthali) [al-Ḍāli‘]. The correspondents include: Major-General Pelham James Maitland (later Henry Macan Mason), Political ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Feb 1904-Apr 1905
Extent:
1 item (86 folios)

779. IOR/L/PS/10/88/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/88/2
Title:
File 3531/1905 Pt 2 ‘Mesopotamia:- Navigation of Tigris + Euphrates; Euphrates + Tigris Steam Navigation Co; Hamidieh Co.’
Scope & Content:
Part 2 of the volume is comprised of copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the proposed merger of the Turkish-Government-operated Hamidieh Steamship Company and the British company, the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company (also referred to as the Lynch Company, ETSNC). ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1905-1911
Extent:
1 item (315 folios)

780. IOR/L/PS/10/115/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/115/3
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 8 'Arms traffic:- Persian Gulf - Seizure of French dhows "Musafa" and "Fath-el-Khair".'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence relates to complaints made by Abraham Elbaz (agent for Antoine Goguyer, a French arms merchant at Muscat) that his dhow Fath-el-Khair was being interfered with by HM's vessels causing him to suffer substantial financial losses. The correspondence also discusses negotiations t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Jan 1911-4 Aug 1911
Extent:
1 volume (109 folios)

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