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1. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/8
Title:
‘Military Report on Southern Persia’
Scope & Content:
Confidential military report compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Department of the Quarter Master General of India, by Captain George Samuel Frederick Napier, 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry, Staff Captain. The report was printed in Simla at the Government Central Printing Office, 190...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1900
Extent:

1 volume (73 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/15

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/15
Title:
A note on communications and irrigation in the Persian province of Arabistan
Scope & Content:
This note on communications and irrigation in Arabistan was written by Sir George Cunningham Buchanan and was printed in Simla at the Government Monotype Press. The information in the note is divided using sub-headings which include: general description communications the Karun River irrigation ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:

1 volume (13 folios)

3. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/16

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/16
Title:
‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’
Scope & Content:
Confidential military report on Arabistan [Khūzestān] compiled by Air Headquarters, Iraq, and printed by the Government of India Press, 1924. The report contains nine chapters (numbered I-IX) and seven appendices (A-G) as follows: chapter I – history (general, ancient, modern, political attitud...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924
Extent:

1 volume (179 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/41

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/41
Title:
File 1552/1904 Pt 2-3 Mohammerah
Scope & Content:
This file contains parts two and three of the subject Mohammerah 1552: Part two contains papers related to the operations of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company on the Karun River: folios 127-274. Part three contains papers related to proposed irrigation schemes in the Karun River ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1915
Extent:

3 volumes (293 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1010

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1010
Title:
File 3852/1921 'PERSIA: AHWAZ CONSULATE BUILDINGS'
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to the establishment of British consular offices and accommodation at Ahwaz [Ahvaz, also known as Naseri, Khuzestan] during the period 1918-32, proceedings which were particularly driven by: the end of hostilities with the Central Powers (Treaties of Sevres, 1920, and Lausann...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918-1932
Extent:
1 volume (404 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/173

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/173
Title:
PZ 5840/35 'Mohammerah Port Regulations'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the establishment of a Port Office at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and accompanying port regulations. The discussion in the volume relates to the following regulations: Accidents relating to water transport...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Nov 1935-29 Aug 1935
Extent:
1 file (39 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3474

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3474
Title:
Coll 28/69 ‘Irrigation Projects in Sth Persia. Reports by Major W. R. Morton R.E. inc. Suggestion of Sir L. Howarth’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to proposals for irrigation schemes in Persia [Iran], and specifically for the Karun river [Rūd-e Kārūn] in the southwest of the country. The contents of the volume can be divided into two parts, as follows: Correspondence dated 1933-34 (ff 141-240) concerning a request made by ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Sep 1933-23 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/C28

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C28
Title:
Persia
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is divided into the following chapter headings: 'General Status of Persia', ff 2r-12; 'Persia and Herat', ff 12v-24r; 'Persia and Seistan [Sīstān]', ff 24r-31v; 'Persia and Kohuk', ff 31v-35; 'Persia and the Navigation of the Karun [Kārūn] River', ff 35v-39r; 'Persia and her integ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1879
Extent:
1 file (78 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/C35

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C35
Title:
'Karun River: Memorandum by Sir H Rawlinson'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum outlines Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson's opinion that the importance of opening up the Karun [Kārūn] River to steam navigation has been vastly overstated; the difficulties outweigh the potential benefits. It also includes some discussion of the overland routes into Persia.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1882
Extent:

1 folio

10. IOR/L/PS/18/C36

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C36
Title:
'Karun River: Memorandum by Mr Baring'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is a response from Walter Baring to Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson's argument that the potential benefits of opening up the Karun [Kārūn] River to steam navigation are outweighed by the potential problems (see IOR/L/PS/18/C35). It argues that the Karun River scheme should not be com...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1882
Extent:

2 folios