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41. IOR/L/PS/10/527

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/527
Title:
File 53/1915 Pt 6 'The War: Arab Kingdom; Italian claims'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to Italian claims and policy in the Arabian Peninsula in the context of British policy in the Arabian Peninsula particularly in relation to the Hejaz, Asir and the Yemen. The discussion in the volume rel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1916-1917
Extent:
1 volume (176 folios)

42. IOR/L/PS/10/623

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/623
Title:
File 3579/1916 'Turkey: the future of Constantinople'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers regarding the future of Constantinople [Instanbul]. It includes: India Office minute papers; copies of correspondence between the Foreign Office and Sir George Buchanan, HM Ambassador at Petrograd [St Petersburg], and other British diplomats; draft telegrams from the S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 Sep 1916-27 Mar 1919
Extent:
1 volume (259 folios)

43. IOR/L/PS/12/72

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/72
Title:
PZ 2791/33 'Arabia: Wakf properties in Saudi-Arabia for the use of Indian pilgrims'
Scope & Content:
The discussion in the file relates to the use of wakf properties [waqf] (property donated by Islamic rulers for pious uses) in Jeddah and Mecca intended for Indian pilgrims. The British had information which led them to believe such properties were being used as private property but that they co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 May 1933-26 Jul 1934
Extent:
1 file (40 folios)

44. IOR/L/PS/12/2111

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2111
Title:
Coll 6/44 'Hejaz and Indian Muslims. Desecration of tombs by Wahabis, etc.'
Scope & Content:
This file compiles copies of appeals made by representatives of Indian Muslims to the British Government (and in one case, to the Shah of Persia [Reza Shah Pahlavi]), regarding the desecration of various holy buildings and monuments by Ibn Saud's [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1930-18 Apr 1933
Extent:
1 file (29 folios)

45. IOR/L/PS/12/2151

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2151
Title:
Coll 6/78 'Italian propaganda amongst the Arabs.'
Scope & Content:
This file documents steps considered and taken by the British to combat reported Italian anti-British propaganda and disseminate pro-British propaganda in the Middle East and beyond. The file's principal correspondents are the following: His Majesty's Ambassador in Rome (Eric Drummond); the Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
2 Jul 1936-2 Sep 1938
Extent:
1 file (228 folios)

46. 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)

47. IOR/L/PS/18/B327

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B327
Title:
Mesopotamia: Assyrian refugees at Baqubah. Note by Captain G S Reed, dated 1 July 1919
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a document by Captain G S Reed which provides an overview of the history of the Assyrian Christians in Urmia and the circumstances that led to their mass exodus to Baqubah in 1918. Reed also details the difficulties of the repatriation of these refugees back to Urmia.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jul 1919
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

48. IOR/R/15/5/120

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/120
Title:
‘I/6 Saudi-Arabia Miscellaneous’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers relating to miscellaneous affairs in Saudi Arabia, as reported to or by the Political Agent at Kuwait: In 1937, the formation of the Nejdi Motor Car Company, a concession set up to convey pilgrims between Nejd, Hasa [al-Aḥsā’], and the Hejaz. Papers include a translatio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 May 1937-19 Feb 1945
Extent:
1 file (45 folios)

49. Mss Eur C14

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C14
Title:
Buchanan-Hamilton Drawings Volume I: Costumes of Bihar
Scope & Content:
42 drawings depicting the dress worn by Hindu and Muslim men and women of various classes and castes in both the hot and cold seasons (folios 1-50), plus four drawings depicting fishing nets, pounders, musical insturments and pottery (folios 51-57). Costume drawings by a Patna artist, c1814; et...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1808-1814
Extent:
1 volume

50. WD638

Reference (shelfmark):
WD638
Title:
A fakir's hut in the valley of Periyakulam; an ascetic and a European with sepoys in the foreground. May 1784. Artist(s): MacKenzie, Colin (1754-1821)
Scope & Content:
(14) A fakir's hut in the valley of Periyakulam; an ascetic and a European with sepoys in the foreground. May 1784. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘The Habitation of a Fakeer on a Rock in the Vale of Periacollum, May 1784. District of Dindigul.’ Water-colour; 12 by 19 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1784
Extent:
1 Item

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