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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Material Type Archives and Manuscripts Level [36] Series

1. IOR/H/549-552

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/549-552
Title:
Papers Primarily Relating to Brigadier-General John Jacob and the Anglo-Persian War (1856-57)
Scope & Content:
Volumes IOR/H/549, 550 and half of 552 relate to the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-1857 and the aftermath. Half of the papers in IOR/H/552 relate to Jacob's early career in the Indian Army of the East India Company and political affairs in Sind [Sindh] and Beloochistan [Balochistan], notably [Khelat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1840-1875
Extent:
4 volumes (2436 folios)

2. IOR/H/733-737

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/733-737
Title:
Papers of Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833)
Scope & Content:
Papers of Sir John Malcolm chiefly relating to his career as an officer of the East India Company in India and on diplomatic missions to Persia [Iran]. Volumes IOR/H/733 and 736 relate to both central India and Persia; volume IOR/H/734 relates solely to India; volume IOR/H/737 relates solely t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1796-13 Dec 1833
Extent:
5 volumes (1885 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire
Scope & Content:
There are considerable gaps within the series owing to periodic weeding processes. The files and volumes may be divided as follows: (1) 1763-1849 (IOR/R/15/1/1-118) Separate series of letters received and letters sent contain correspondence mainly with Basra and later with Government of Bomb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1763-1948
Extent:
c 758 files

4. IOR/R/15/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/4
Title:
Residency Agency, Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
Very few files have survived from the Residency Agency, probably because there was little methodical record keeping before the appointment of the British Political Officer in 1939. The series contains only seventeen files dating from 1930 to 1951. Subjects covered include boundaries, Sharjah Air ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1930-1951
Extent:
17 files (1878 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6
Title:
Political Agency, Muscat
Scope & Content:
Record keeping in the Muscat Agency seems always to have been chaotic, and it is clear that gaps in the archives are the result more of loss and indiscriminate destruction than of a conscious selection policy. The Political Agent’s Court records have not survived. Much of the arrangement has had ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1951
Extent:
540 files and volumes

6. Mss Eur F111-112 Series 8

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111-112 Series 8
Title:
Lord Curzon (1859-1925): Early Life: Papers Relating to Persia
Scope & Content:
This series contains papers relating to George Nathaniel Curzon's interest in Persia. Mss Eur F112/365 and Mss Eur F112/366 consist of two notebooks containing Curzon’s handwritten notes on his travels in Persia during 1889-90, while Mss Eur F111/71 contains notes, reports and correspondence mai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Dutch, English, German, and Persian
Date Range:
1876-1923
Extent:

14 files and volumes (1613 folios)

7. Mss Eur F111-112 Series 32

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111-112 Series 32
Title:
Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905: Persia
Scope & Content:
The series consists of files and volumes of papers mostly relating to British interests and policy in Persia [Iran], and the Persian Gulf, collected by George Nathaniel Curzon. Subjects covered by the papers include the Seistan [Sistan] region, British trade with Persia and trade routes in Persi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, German, and Persian
Date Range:
1891-1911
Extent:

13 files and volumes (2,300 folios), and a two piece pouch envelope

8. Mss Eur F111-112 Series 102

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111-112 Series 102
Title:
Lord Curzon, Foreign Secretary 1919-24: the Near and Middle East: general
Scope & Content:
This series of files consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, maps, and other papers relating to the settlement of the former Ottoman territories in the Middle and Near East following the First World War. A number of countries are concerned, including Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Transjordan, the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1893-1924
Extent:

9 files (544 folios)

9. Mss Eur F111-112 Series 103

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111-112 Series 103
Title:
Lord Curzon, Foreign Secretary 1919-24: Egypt
Scope & Content:
This series of files consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, maps, and other papers relating to the political situation in Egypt and Sudan following the First World War. The papers concern the Egyptian Revolution of 1919, the Special Mission to Egypt led by Lord Milner to investigate wha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1917-1924
Extent:

9 files (892 folios)

10. Mss Eur F111-112 Series 108

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111-112 Series 108
Title:
Printed Papers of the Five Committees on the Near and Middle East
Scope & Content:
Series 108, Printed Papers of the Five Committees on the Near and Middle East, is composed of papers relating to four War Cabinet committees and one Foreign Office committee, which cover British policy in the Near and Middle East. The committees, which were chaired by George Curzon, are as follo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917-1920
Extent:

5 files (532 folios)