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Project / Collection India Office Records Subject Independence Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/10/756

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/756
Title:
File 4722/1918 Pt 2 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: SITUATION’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding the administration of and situation in Mesopotamia [Iraq] after the Agreement of 1916 between the French and British governments and the self-determination of Mesopotamia. The papers notably cover: The arg...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1919-6 Aug 1920
Extent:
1 volume (256 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/1275

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1275
Title:
File 4640/1928 Pt 2 ‘Muscat Situation at Sur.’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers concerning the situation at Sur in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. The papers mainly relate to ‘difficulties’ which had arisen between the tribes of Sur and the Government of Muscat, inter-tribal and inter-factional rivalries, the question of what action the British...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1926-19 Nov 1931
Extent:

1 volume (396 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2166
Title:
Coll 6/93 'Syria – Situation in after the capitulation of France 1940: Allied operations against :–'
Scope & Content:
This file documents British policy and Allied operations regarding Syria and Lebanon, following the defeat of France in June 1940. It documents preparations for a British-Free French military campaign in Syria [Operation Exporter] and concludes with correspondence regarding armistice terms, foll...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Jun 1940-28 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 file (500 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2168

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2168
Title:
Coll 6/93(2) 'SYRIA: Situation in – after capitulation of France, 1940. Incl. Proclamation of Independence.'
Scope & Content:
Following on from an earlier file (IOR/L/PS/12/2166), this file concerns British policy relating to Syria, following the success of the British-Free French military campaign in Syria [Operation Exporter]. (The abbreviation 'Incl.' in the title stands for 'Including'). The date range of this fil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Jul 1941-12 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (311 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2169
Title:
Coll 6/94 'INDIAN REPRESENTATION AT JEDDA'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to British Indian (and later, Indian and Pakistani) representation in Jedda, Saudi Arabia. The earlier correspondence (1937-1946) concerns successive appointments for the position of Indian Vice-Consul at Jedda, whose main responsibilities relate to the interests of Indian pil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Apr 1937-15 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (91 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3398B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3398B
Title:
Coll 28/4 ‘Persia – Imperial Bank of. Charter etc’
Scope & Content:
Papers and correspondence dated 1949, relating to a petition to amend the charter of the Imperial Bank of Iran, submitted to the Treasury of the British Government by the solicitors Coward, Chance & Company. The amendments to the charter include a change of name, from Imperial Bank of Iran to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1949-6 May 1949
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/4783

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4783
Title:
Coll 55/29 'Foreign Relations. RELATIONS WITH MUSCAT.' [Celebrations of Indian Independence in Bahrain]
Scope & Content:
Despite its title on the front cover, the concerns celebrations of Indian Independence in Bahrain. The file notably contains a letter from the Persian Gulf Residency, Bahrain, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs reporting that on 26 January 1950 the Indian community at Bahrain celebra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Feb 1950
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/C191

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C191
Title:
Memorandum on Turco-German Relations Over the Caucasus.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a single memorandum, produced by the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office. The memorandum provides, in great detail, a British perspective on Turco-German relations between March and October 1918, regarding their respective interests in the recently disso...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Oct 1918
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/378

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/378
Title:
File 9/34 Currency in Arab Shaikhdoms
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, the Adviser to the Bahrain Government, and the Eastern Bank Limited regarding which currency they should use in Bahrain after the independence of India and Pakistan. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1947-30 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (135 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/943

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/943
Title:
‘File 22/7 Fujairah’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the Sheikh of Fujairah’s [Muḥammad bin Ḥamad Āl Sharqi] desire to enter into a treaty agreement with the British Government, thus putting his territory on a footing similar to those of the other Trucial Coast states. The principal correspondents in t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Feb 1951-16 Nov 1951
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)