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Place Seistan, Asia Level [40] File

11. IOR/L/PS/12/3561

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3561
Title:
Coll 29/5 'Seistan: vice consulate appointments (Zabul)'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns appointments at the Consulates in Seistan and Zabul. The file covers: appointment of G Fawsitt Taylor as Medical Officer and Vice Consul to Seistan, in 1931 appointment of T F Shepherd as member of the staff appointment of J J Beausang as Medical Officer and Vice Consul to Se...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Mar 1931-22 Jul 1946
Extent:
1 file (90 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/12/3601

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3601
Title:
Coll 29/40 'Seistan: sale of consulate land'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the sale of land belonging to the Seistan and Kain (Zabul) Consulate, and reports on the flood in Seistan, causing damages to the Vice-Consulate at Zabul. The file contains: proposed sale of land situated outside the compound of Seistan Consulate, on which a building was erec...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Mar 1931-1 Feb 1941
Extent:
1 file (220 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/18/A145

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/A145
Title:
Baluchistan and Persia. Note by Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a note, written by Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick, member of the Council of India, on the subject of the northernmost portion of land in the province of Baluchistan [Balochistān], south of the Durand line, which is described as being situated between British India and Kelat [Kalat]...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Nov 1899
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

14. 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)

15. IOR/L/PS/18/C29/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C29/2
Title:
No 2. Persia, Herat, and Seistan — (continued)
Scope & Content:
This memorandum continues on from IOR/L/PS/18/C29/1. It includes transcripts of select telegrams sent by the Viceroy of India (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) to the India Office between 1 January and 13 March 1880 on the subject of Persia and Herat. These telegrams convey the Viceroy's opinions con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Apr 1880
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/18/C65

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C65
Title:
The History of Seistan and Lash-Jowain
Scope & Content:
This document was compiled and signed by H Le Poer Wynne (Foreign Department) and covers the history of Seistan and Lash-Jowain [Lāsh-e Juwayn], including the dispute over sovereignty which led to the Anglo-Persian War (1856-7). The document is divided into the following sections: 1. The histo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1870
Extent:

38 folios

17. IOR/L/PS/18/C66

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C66
Title:
Seistan arbitration case
Scope & Content:
This document was written by Sir Owen Tudor Burne on 19 November 1872, and is divided into the following sections: Section 1 - Brief abstract of Persia and Afghanistan History as connected with Seistan [Sīstān], including our policy in reference to the district Section 2 - Geographical and Pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Nov 1872
Extent:

6 folios

18. IOR/L/PS/18/C67

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C67
Title:
Seistan and Mekran arbitration
Scope & Content:
This document opens by outlining the history of the boundaries between Persia and Seistan [Sīstān] and Persia and Mekran [Makran]. It goes on to discuss the involvement of the British with the dispute during the middle of the nineteenth century, and particularly focuses on the process of British...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1875
Extent:

5 folios

19. IOR/L/PS/18/C110

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C110
Title:
'Question of a Loan to Persia.'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum consists of a number of notes authored by the following: Sir Hugh Barnes, Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick, Sir John Edge, and Sir William Lee-Warner; all members of the Council of India. The notes discuss whether or not Britain should advance a further loan to Persia, and what concessions...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1905-17 Jan 1906
Extent:

1 file (7 folios)

20. IOR/L/PS/18/C113

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C113
Title:
'Memorandum on the Note of the Persian Government, dated 22nd February 1906, embodying their objections to the Seistan Water Award.'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum concerns the Seistan Water Award [Sīstān] arbitrated by Britain between Persia and Afghanistan; the award outlines the proportion of water from the River Helmond [Helmand] to be allotted to irrigation on both sides of the river. It is authored by Arthur Henry McMahon — the British ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1906
Extent:

1 file (8 folios)