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31. IOR/L/PS/18/C63

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C63
Title:
Boundary between Persia and North-West Baluchistan
Scope & Content:
Two documents exist within these folios, one of which was written by Hermann Anderson Haines, Assistant, Public Works Department, on 19 September 1893, and the next by Captain Frederick Weston Peile MacDonald on 15 August 1893. The first document by Haines explains the history leading up to the b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Aug 1893 - 19 Sep 1893
Extent:

9 folios

32. IOR/L/PS/18/C208

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C208
Title:
Persian Baluchistan (including the Sarhad and Persian Mekran) The Quetta-Nushki extension railway
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is concerned with Persian Baluchistan, specifically focusing on Mekran [Makran] and Sarhad, which are regarded as being of particular geopolitical interest to Britain's Indian Empire. It includes a brief description of these regions, outlines local British activities during the Fi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 May 1922
Extent:

1 file (17 folios)

33. IOR/L/PS/20/C91/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C91/2
Title:
Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part II. J G Lorimer. 1915
Scope & Content:
This volume is Volume I, Part II (Historical) of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915), compiled by John Gordon Lorimer and completed for press by Captain L Birdwood. Part II contains an 'Introduction' (pages i-iii) written by Birdwood in Simla,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 volume (1165 pages)

34. IOR/L/PS/20/C91/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C91/4
Title:
'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol. II. Geographical and Statistical. J G Lorimer. 1908'
Scope & Content:
This volume is Volume II of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1908) compiled by John Gordon Lorimer. The volume is a geographical dictionary with a series of alphabetically arranged articles relating to the physical and political conditions of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1908
Extent:

1 volume (1952 pages)

35. IOR/L/PS/20/C244

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C244
Title:
Précis of Mekran Affairs
Scope & Content:
The volume, stamped ‘Secret’ on the front cover and frontispiece, is a précis of affairs relating to Makrān (spelt Mekran throughout) coast in the south of Sindh and Baluchistan. It was prepared by Judge Jerome Antony Saldanha of the Bombay Provincial Civil Service, and published in 1905 by the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905
Extent:

1 volume (67 folios)

36. IOR/R/15/1/221

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/221
Title:
File 5/191 Kidnapping of Baluchis and Indians on the Mekran Coast and exporting them for sale at Oman and Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between various British Government officials in the Persian Gulf, who were responding to a perceived increase in the trade of slaves across the Gulf of Oman, from the Baluchistan coast to the Batinah and Trucial coasts on the Arabian Peninsula. A significant pr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1921-29 Jul 1922
Extent:

1 volume (249 folios)

37. IOR/R/15/1/223

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/223
Title:
File 5/191 III Individual slavery cases
Scope & Content:
Twenty cases relating to individuals and small groups, kidnapped or transported from Baluchistan or India, to the Trucial Coast, in particular Dubai. Some of the cases are straightforward and involve the appearance or retrieval of slaves in the Dubai area, often initiated by the Sharjah Residenc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Feb 1927-21 Jul 1929
Extent:

1 volume (435 folios)

38. IOR/R/15/1/224

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/224
Title:
File 5/191 IV Individual slavery cases
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to instances of slavery on the Trucial Coast. Of the eleven subjects contained in the volume, the first seven relate to the kidnapping and enslavement of individuals within the Trucial Coast and Oman area, frequently by tribes from the interior. Cases ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1929-3 Jul 1934
Extent:

1 volume (338 folios)

39. IOR/R/15/1/229

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/229
Title:
‘File 5/196 I Slave traffic in the Gulf: Hindu boys kidnapped from Karachi and other cases’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence in the first part of the volume relates to specific cases of the kidnapping of boys from Baluchistan/India to the Trucial Coast, and the efforts of the Political Resident and Political Agents to locate, retrieve and repatriate them. Reference is made to a court case in Karachi, in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Jan 1927-3 Jan 1930
Extent:

1 volume (312 folios)

40. IOR/R/15/2/659

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/659
Title:
‘File 28/1 I Defence against parachutists, obstruction of aerodromes and landing grounds, etc’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence and memoranda containing guidance relating to the perceived threat of enemy troops parachuting into British-Indian territory. Though the threat is most strongly perceived in the north-western provinces of India and Baluchistan, the guidance was distrib...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1940-13 Feb 1942
Extent:
1 file (18 folios)

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