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1. IOR/L/PS/5/265, ff 461-464

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/265, ff 461-464
Title:
Euphrates ValleyRailway
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to theSecretary of State for India, No. 215 of 1870, dated 15 October 1870,containing an enclosure dated 13 August 1870. The enclosure consists of a copy of a report bythe Political Agent, Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], on the details ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1870
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/466, ff 118-183

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/466, ff 118-183
Title:
Persia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 61 of 1850, dated 2 November 1850. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 14 September 1850. The papers relate to affairs in the vicinity of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Nov 1850
Extent:
1 item (66 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/6/111, ff 244-248

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/111, ff 244-248
Title:
Political No. 150 of 1873, Forwarding Copies of a Letter from HM Minister at Teheran to Earl Granville, Explaining Why he Believes the Completion of a Railway between the Caspian and Teheran would be Fatal to the Independence of Persia
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 1 September 1873 and received by the India Office Secret Department on 30 September 1873, forwarding copies of a letter from the Minister at Teheran [Teh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1873-30 Sep 1873
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/608/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/608/2
Title:
File 2976/1916 Pt 2 'Persia Bunder-Abbas-Kerman telegraph & road Bushire-Shiraz road'
Scope & Content:
The file mainly consists of papers relating to the Bunder Abbas to Kerman telegraph line and road in Persia [Iran]. It includes correspondence regarding: the diversion of the Bunder Abbas to Kerman telegraph line via Tarum and Saidabad; the estimated cost of constructing this new telegraph line;...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1918-14 Mar 1922
Extent:
1 item (145 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/805/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/805/2
Title:
File 788/1919 Pt 4 ‘MESOPOTAMIA DISPOSAL OF RIVERCRAFT’
Scope & Content:
This part concerns the disposal of river craft in Mesopotamia and contains material relating to: The arrangements made by Lord Inchcape [James Lyle MacKay], of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company Limited, with the Ministry of Munitions towards the purchase of the Government’s surp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1920-3 Feb 1921
Extent:

1 item (119 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/921/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/921/2
Title:
File 5924/1920 Pt 3 ‘Persia: Debt to H.M.G. Private claims against Persian Govt.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding the private and commercial financial claims made by British subjects and companies against the Government of Persia [Iran], as well as Persia’s financial affairs generally. The papers notably cover: Claims o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Nov 1926-25 Nov 1932
Extent:
1 item (108 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B381/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B381/2
Title:
No. 1. Convention concernant les Chemins de fer en Turquie d'Asie.
Scope & Content:
This item consists of an agreement drawn up by the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (Ibrahim Hakki Pasha) and A P (on behalf of the King), to avoid future disputes regarding the transportation of goods by railway in Asiatic Turkey. The main body of the document is in French.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Aug 1913
Extent:

1 item (2 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/20/C253/1, f 167

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C253/1, f 167
Title:
‘Iraq, Map Shewing Railways
Scope & Content:
This map depicts the railway network in ‘Iraq [Iraq], showing railway lines, with standard and metre gauges indicated, and railway stations and water stations. The map also shows main cities and settlements, the rivers Tigris, Euphrates, Zab, and Shatt al Arab, and tributaries and branches, lake...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1941
Extent:
1 map sheet