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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Colonial policy Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/10/584

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/584
Title:
File 475/1916 'PERSIA: POLICY - 1916. The proposed Treaty of Alliance'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, telegrams, correspondence, memoranda, notes and printed papers in 1916 relating to the development of British policy towards Persia as well as the British relationship with Russia vis-à-vis its position and interests in Persia. The discussion in the v...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 volume (279 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/686

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/686
Title:
File 2571/1917 'MESOPOTAMIA: FUTURE ADMINISTRATION'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises memoranda, notes, telegrams, correspondence and minutes, relating to the British Government’s policy on the future administration of Mesopotamia [Iraq]. Selected papers of the War Cabinet’s Mesopotamia Administration Committee, and its successors the Middle East Committee an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1917-10 Oct 1919
Extent:
1 volume (185 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3784

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3784
Title:
Coll 30/67 'Koweit & H.M.G.: Policy of H.M.G. in regard to relations with the Shaikh of Koweit.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns British Government (HMG) policy on relations with the Shaikh of Koweit [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, Ruler of Kuwait]. The file contains correspondence, minutes and memoranda produced by senior officials at the Foreign Office and the India Office; the Political Resident in the Per...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Oct 1933-26 Nov 1937
Extent:
1 file (351 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3800

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3800
Title:
Coll 30/83 'QATAR OIL CONCESSION, POLICY AND PROTECTION.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns British Government policy towards Qatar in the light of the bid by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) to obtain a concession from the Shaikh of Qatar (Abdullah bin Qasim al Thani [‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī]) to produce oil in the country. The British Government were keen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1933-12 Jul 1935
Extent:
1 volume (505 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3810

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3810
Title:
Coll 30/90 'Persian claim to the island of Bahrain'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the claim of the Government of Iran (generally referred to as the Government of Persia) to territorial sovereignty over Bahrein [Bahrain]. The papers include: the Iranian claim in the light of the Bahrain oil concession; representations by the Government of Iran to the League ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
25 May 1934-23 Sep 1948
Extent:
1 file in 3 parts (519 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3827

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3827
Title:
Coll 30/105 'Trucial Coast: Debai Affairs'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns affairs at Debai [Dubai] on the Trucial Coast. This includes both individual incidents involving British subjects and developments in the internal politics of Dubai. The policy of the British Government was one of non-interference in the internal affairs of the Trucial States, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1929-18 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (248 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/A136

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/A136
Title:
Memorandum on Makran by Sir W. Lee-Warner (Letter from India No. 214 (Foreign), 17 November 1898) 21 Dec 1898.
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a report by Sir William Lee-Warner (1846-1914) written during his tenure as Secretary to the Secret and Political Department. It is a critique of the Government of India's current policy towards Makran, which he claims has not been authorised by the Home Government. This pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Dec 1898
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B27/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B27/4
Title:
A Note to the Vice-Consul in Tehran Proposing a British Protectorate on the Southern Coast of the Gulf of Aden
Scope & Content:
A handwritten note from [Arthur William Moore?] to the Vice-Consul in Tehran, Harry Lionel Churchill, in which the author suggests that the British formally declare a Protectorate over a portion of the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden recently evacuated by the Egyptians. However, he warns again...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1886
Extent:

4 folios

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B260

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B260
Title:
Mesopotamia Administration Committee. Note by Sir James Meston, KCSI, on the future system of government at Baghdad.
Scope & Content:
In this note, Sir James Meston, the Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, contests the idea that Baghdad should be brought under British control in any way. Meston warns that trying to control the area, particularly any Holy Places, would likely offend the Muslim populati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1917
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/B367

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B367
Title:
Foreign Office Memorandum on Arabian Policy.
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum deals with the question of the political and financial obligations that the British Government should in future incur in relation to Arabia, in view of the forthcoming negotiations in Paris between Britain, France and the other allied powers on the subject of Arabia [the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:

1 file (10 folios)