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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Language Persian Name Government of India, Foreign and Political Department, 1783-1937

1. IOR/L/PS/5/271

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/271
Title:
‘Letters from India (Secret Dept)’, Vol. 13
Scope & Content:
Government of India Foreign Department letters marked ‘Secret’, ‘General’, or ‘Political’ and sent to His Grace the Duke of Argyll, Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India, with enclosures. The papers are reporting on the state of affairs in a number of regions including: the Khanate of Khiva...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Persian, and Russian
Date Range:
19 Jan 1871-27 Dec 1872
Extent:
1 volume (983 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/606

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/606
Title:
File 2902/1916 ‘Treaties and Engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists mainly of six bound compilations of treaties and undertakings, together with related correspondence and other supplementary material, made between the British Government and the British Protectorates of the Persian Gulf, 1820-1919. These treaty compilations were published by ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1916-1928
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3433

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3433
Title:
Coll 28/37 ‘Persia. Position of British Subjects & British Protected persons under Persian Nationality Law.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the status of British Indian subjects and British-protected persons in Persia [Iran], in the wake of the ratification of the Persian Law of Nationality in 1929. Correspondence is chiefly exchanged between representatives of the British Legation at Tehr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
14 Jul 1924-23 Oct 1935
Extent:
1 volume (553 folios)

4. IOR/P/765

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/P/765
Title:
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. FOREIGN DEPARTMENT PROCEEDINGS. POLITICAL. MAY-AUGUST 1872.
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Proceedings of the Political branch of the Foreign Department of the Government of India for the months of May to August 1872. These Proceedings comprise copies of correspondence of the Government of India Foreign Department (renamed Foreign and Political Department in 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Gujarati, and Persian
Date Range:
Dec 1869-Aug 1872
Extent:
1 volume (742 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/196

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/196
Title:
'Sirri Island Occupation by the Persian Govt. 1887-1902'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence concerning the Persian claim to the island of Sirrī, as well as their claim to and occupation of that place. In addition there is information concerning rival claims by Trucial Coast rulers, details concerning Dubai pearl divers on the island and details concern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
18 Sep 1887-27 Jun 1902
Extent:
1 volume (235 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/197

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/197
Title:
'B.11 668-II Sirri Island'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence mostly concerning the island of Sirri [Sirrī], as well as other Persian Gulf islands, including Tanb [Ṭanb] and Lesser Tanb, Farur [Farūr] and Lesser Farur, Dalmah [Dalmā], Halul island [Ḥālūl], Sir Abu Nu'ayr [Ṣīr Abū Nu‘ayr], and Sir Bani Yas [Ṣīr Banī Yās]. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
31 May 1904-25 Oct 1910
Extent:
1 file (146 folios)

7. Mss Eur D922

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D922
Title:
Papers of Lt (later Lt-Col) David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer and Emily Overend Lorimer
Scope & Content:
These papers are composed of two files as follows: D 922/1 (which is itself divided into two physical volumes): an account of a journey in Kashmir in 1898-99 written by Lt (later Lt-Col) David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer of the Indian Army (folios 1-262). Copies of letters sent by the linguist, p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1898-1914
Extent:
2 files (668 folios)