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411. IOR/L/PS/18/B15a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B15a
Title:
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary, Political Department
Scope & Content:
Printed copy of a letter which concerns the question of consular jurisdiction in Persia. Ross, in his capacity as Political Resident at Bushire, gives his opinion on papers he has read which regard consular jurisdiction in Persia: chiefly, the lack of need for a judge of appeal at Bushire, the l...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1876
Extent:

1 folio

412. IOR/L/PS/18/B152

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B152
Title:
British Museum report on the Persian Gulf as a possible area for successful sponge fisheries. (Pol. No. 1718/05)
Scope & Content:
Report prepared by Randolph Kirkpatrick of the British Museum (Natural History) in November 1905 into the commercial potential of sponge fisheries in the Persian Gulf. The report is organised into small sections, as follows: Conditions favourable to the growth of commercial sponges; Unfavourabl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1905
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

413. 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)

414. IOR/L/PS/18/B281

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B281
Title:
Future of Mesopotamia. Note by Political Department, India Office, on points for discussion with Sir P Cox
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum is a note by the Political Department of the India Office, dated 3 April 1918, concerning points to be discussed with Sir Percy Zachariah Cox regarding the future administration of Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The note is divided into three sections: the first concerns 'Policy of H...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Apr 1918
Extent:

3 folios

415. IOR/L/PS/18/B393

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B393
Title:
Political control in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Written by John Gilbert Laithwaite of the India Office. It covers arrangements from 1616 to 1921 summarising the use of agents, establishment of the Bushire Residency, and role of Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It considers arrangements since the Report of the Masterton-Smith Committee i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Oct 1928
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

416. IOR/L/PS/18/B126

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B126
Title:
'TURKISH JURISDICTION IN THE ISLANDS AND WATERS OF THE PERSIAN GULF, AND ON THE ARAB LITTORAL'
Scope & Content:
Memorandum written by Trevor John Chicheley Plowden, Under Secretary to the Foreign Department, Government of India, 21 Mar 1879, and published 25 March 1879 in Lahore by the Punjab Government. The memorandum addresses the question of Turkish jurisdiction in the islands and waters of the Persi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1879
Extent:

1 file (14 folios)

417. IOR/L/PS/18/B250a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B250a
Title:
Treaty with the Idrisi Saiyid. No 33A of 1915. Government of India Foreign and Political Department
Scope & Content:
This file contains a 'Treaty of Friendship and Goodwill' and is signed by David George Levigne Shaw, the Political Resident in Aden, on behalf of the British Government, and by Saiyid Mustafa bin Saiyid Abdu'l 'Ali on the part of His Eminence Saiyid Muhammad bin Ali bin Muhammad bin Ahmed bin Id...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

418. IOR/L/PS/18/B310a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B310a
Title:
The future of Constantinople. Memorandum by Lord Curzon. Printed for the War Cabinet, January 1919.
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum by Lord Curzon outlining the discussion undertaken by the Eastern Committee about the future of Constantinople. The first section covers the arguments for and against the ejection of 'the Turk' from Constantinople. The second section discusses which world power w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1919
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

419. 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)

420. IOR/L/PS/18/B287

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B287
Title:
Summary of the Hejaz Revolt
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum is a report prepared by the General Staff, War Office, dated 31 Aug 1918. It is a summary of the Hejaz [al-Ḥijāz] Revolt (commonly referred to as the Arabic Revolt) in the context of the First World War, covering the period June 1916 to December 1918. The memorandum is ma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1918
Extent:

15 folios

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