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Subject International relations Name Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council, 1773-1947 Level [40] File

1. IOR/G/29/34

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/34
Title:
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letter, dated 17th September 1808
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of correspondence, memoranda, journal extracts, and intelligence reports relating to Brigadier-General John Malcolm’s 1808 mission to Persia [Iran] as East India Company Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. The papers are enclosures to a packet sent to the Secret...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 May 1808-17 Sep 1808
Extent:
1 volume (416 folios)

2. IOR/G/29/35

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/35
Title:
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letters of 21 December 1808, 20 January and 3 April 1809
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to affairs in Persia [Iran] and the Persian Gulph [Persian Gulf]. The principal correspondents are: Sir Harford Jones [later Jones-Brydges], Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Persia; Lord Minto [Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynyn...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Oct 1808-20 Mar 1809
Extent:
1 volume (304 folios)

3. IOR/G/29/36

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/36
Title:
Letters and Enclosures on Persia to the Secret Department, 1809-1810
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises a single packet addressed to the Secret Department, containing transcripts and supplementary duplicate copies of secret letters, excerpts of intelligence reports, itineraries, travel accounts, translated diplomatic letters, treaties, royal edicts or firmaun [farmān], and tra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Feb 1809-12 Mar 1810
Extent:
1 volume (362 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/8
Title:
File 2410/1903 Pt 1 'Persia:- Financial Situation. Loans.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to a loan made to the Persian Government in April 1903, and further advances made during 1904 and 1905. The discussion in the volume relates to the terms of the loan agreements including possible concessi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Apr 1903-17 Jan 1906
Extent:
1 volume (526 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/57
Title:
File 2764/1904 Pt 2 'Baghdad Railway: General negotiations 1908-10.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, maps and notes, relating to negotiations over the proposed Berlin to Baghdad Railway in the period 1903-1907. The discussion in the volume relates to the economic, commercial, political and military cons...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908-1910
Extent:
1 volume (391 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/481

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/481
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 4 'German War: Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns events that happened in Persia and in the Eastern territories of the Ottoman Empire (Iraq), during the First World War. The main focus is the Turkish action in Persia, and the British intrigues to maintain control over Persia, preventing the country from entering the war and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, German, and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
27 Jan 1915-13 May 1915
Extent:
1 volume (333 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/482

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/482
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 5 'German War: Persia; situation in Arabistan 1915'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns events that happened in southern Persia and in the territories of the Shatt al-Arab, during the First World War. The main focus is the protection of oilfields. The volume covers: The Arab movement in Mesopotamia. Possible despatch of troops to the Kārun river and to Ahwaz [A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Jan 1915-26 Jul 1916
Extent:
1 volume (196 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/483

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/483
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 6 'German War: Persia; general situation May-July 1915'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns events that happened in Persia and Balochistan, during the First World War. The main focus is measures to be taken in the event of Persia entering the War against Great Britain. The volume covers: Advice of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf on measures to be taken i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1915-16 Jul 1915
Extent:
1 volume (237 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/484

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/484
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 7 'German War: Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the Persian Gendarmerie in southern Persia (Fars), and the pro-German feelings of the Swedish officers who were part of it. The volume covers: Accusations against Swedish officers employed by the Persian Gendarmerie in Fars, suggesting that they have been abandoning their ne...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
20 Mar 1915-3 Dec 1915
Extent:
1 volume (257 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/485

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/485
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 8 'German War: Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the situation in Persia during the First World War. The main focus is the plan for the British occupation of Bushire. The volume covers: Measures to be taken at the Persian Gulf Ports in case of armed intervention against Persia, issued by the Admiralty to the Commander-in-C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jul 1915-5 Nov 1915
Extent:
1 volume (213 folios)