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271. IOR/L/PS/12/4764

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4764
Title:
Coll 55/3 'Govt of India. Indian Foreign Policy. Relations with Persia'
Scope & Content:
The papers in the file include the following: An extract of a translation from News of IndiaA photostat of a letter from the British Ambassador to Iran, Valentine Lawford, discussing the publication of a book entitled Balvayi Hind (The Indian Disturbances) and its impact on Pakistani-Indian rel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Aug 1949-21 Feb 1950
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

272. IOR/L/PS/18/B236

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B236
Title:
Statement [on the expedition to Mesopotamia] by Political Secretary, India Office
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum, marked 'Secret' is a statement by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel, Political Secretary, India Office, dated 30 August 1916, concerning the British campaign against Turkey in Mesopotamia [Iraq] in the context of the First World War, in particular British intentions to advance...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1916
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

273. IOR/L/PS/18/B394

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B394
Title:
Quarantine control in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Memorandum describing the developments leading up to the surrender of quarantine control by His Majesty's Government to the Persian Government in 1928. It outlines the following: quarantine arrangements dating from 1864 including who was responsible for what in terms of roles and the financial ou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1928
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

274. IOR/L/PS/18/B397

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B397
Title:
Status of the Islands of Tamb, Little Tamb, Abu Musa, and Sirri
Scope & Content:
Document outlining the status of the Islands of Tamb, Little Tamb, Abu Musa, and Sirri. It includes the following: an introduction to the status of the islands; a history of the islands prior to 1887; the occupation of Sirri by Persia, 1887; the temporary Persian occupation of Abu Musa and Tamb,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1928
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

275. IOR/L/PS/18/C16

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C16
Title:
Papers respecting the Protection to be granted to Persons of Persian Origin born in India
Scope & Content:
The memorandum consists of printed papers on the subject of whether persons of Persian origin born in India are entitled to protection as British subjects. The question arose from the fact that Persia did not recognise British nationality in persons of Persian descent. In particular, it referenc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
May 1876
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

276. IOR/L/PS/18/C18

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C18
Title:
Memorandum on the Attrek, or Northern, Frontier of Persia
Scope & Content:
The memorandum concerns Persia's northern frontier with Russian Turkestan along the Attrek [Atrek] River valley. It outlines Russian activities in the region (e.g. troop movements, fort construction, and meetings with local chieftains), along with British and Persian diplomatic responses to thes...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Sep 1877
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

277. IOR/L/PS/18/C29/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C29/1
Title:
Persia, Herat, and Seistan
Scope & Content:
The memorandum concerns the state of diplomatic relations between Britain and Persia; it is the view of a number of British officials that the time is ripe to secure a privileged position for Britain at the expense of Russia. To this end it therefore discusses the pros and cons of ceding Herat, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Jan 1880
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

278. IOR/L/PS/18/C48

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C48
Title:
Notes on tribes and boundaries.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a note written by J R Fitzgerald, First Assistant to the Agent to the Governor-General for Beluchistan, in which the author provides a number of instances of tribes divided by territorial boundaries, and casts doubt on the notion that members of those tribes cannot be said ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Feb 1885
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

279. IOR/L/PS/18/C49

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C49
Title:
Perso-Afghan frontier. Report on Hashtadan
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the disputed Hashtadan lands, on the Perso-Afghan frontier. It begins with a confidential letter, dated 24 May 1885, from Colonel Joseph West Ridgeway, Assistant Commissioner in charge, Afghan Boundary Commission, Camp Sinjao, to Earl Granville [Granville George Leveson-Gower,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1885
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

280. IOR/L/PS/18/C64

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C64
Title:
Persia. Note on the memorandum by Sir M Durand on the situation in Persia - HC 1274 of 1895 [L/PS/3/349].
Scope & Content:
This note on the memorandum produced by Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Minister Plenipotentiary to Tehran 1894-1900, was written by Sir William Lee-Warner and focuses on various issues relating to the current situation in Persia. These include: the issue of the Regie debt; concerns over the successi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1896
Extent:

2 folios