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1. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/1
Title:
‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’
Scope & Content:
The third of four volumes comprising a Gazetteer of Persia. The volume, which is marked Confidential, covers Fārs, Lūristān [Lorestān], Arabistān, Khūzistān [Khūzestān], Yazd, Karmānshāh [Kermānshāh], Ardalān, and Kurdistān. The frontispiece states that the volume was revised and updated in Apri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885
Extent:

1 volume (336 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/3/2
Title:
'CORRECTIONS TO THE GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOLUME II'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of corrections to the Gazetteer of Persia Volume II (1st Series, 1917). It provides an index to the sub-tribes referred to in the volume. Printed at the Government Monotype Press, Simla, 1918.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:
1 volume (12 folios)

3. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/4/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/4/3
Title:
'CORRECTIONS TO THE GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOLUME III'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of corrections to the Gazetteer of Persia Volume III (1st Series, 1918). It provides an index to the sub-tribes referred to in the volume. Printed at the Government Monotype Press, Simla, 1918.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:
1 volume (52 folios)

4. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/18

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/18
Title:
‘A Report on the Tribes of Fars’
Scope & Content:
Confidential report on the tribes of the Fars region of Persia [Iran], produced by Captain A J Christian of the General Staff, Shiraz, 1918. The report was printed at the Government Monotype Press, Simla [Shimla], 1919. The report covers a number of tribal groupings: the Khamseh, Qashgai [Qashq...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919
Extent:

1 volume (89 folios)

5. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/19

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/19
Title:
‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’
Scope & Content:
Gazetteer of the province of Kermanshah, Persia [Iran], compiled by Hyacinth Louis Rabino, Vice-Consul at Resht [Rasht] at the time of the gazetteer’s publication in 1907, and who had been Acting Consul at Kermanshah during 1904 and 1905. The gazetteer, which is marked for official use only, was...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907
Extent:

1 volume (249 folios)

6. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/20

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/20
Title:
Report on the Kuhgalu tribes
Scope & Content:
This report on the Kuhgalu tribes was written by Lieutenant James Gabriel Lancaster Ranking (British Consul at Ahwaz) in 1910 and was published in Simla at the Government Monotype Press in 1911. The volume opens with a brief introduction to the Kuhgalu tribes before outlining the names and deta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910-1911
Extent:

1 volume (30 folios)

7. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/21

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/21
Title:
Report on Kurdistan
Scope & Content:
Confidential report compiled by Hyacinth Louis Rabino. The report was printed in Simla at the Government Monotype Press, 1911. The report is divided into three parts (I-III), as follows: Part I: Geographical and Commercial Notes (folios 6-39) with sections on the province of Kurdistan (includi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911
Extent:

1 volume (106 folios)

8. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/22

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/22
Title:
Kurdistan and the Kurds
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a publication concerning Kurdistan and the Kurds. Produced and published by the General Staff, India, and printed in Mount Carmel, Palestine. It provides an edited collection of information based on the reports of military and political officers Captain C F Woolley, and Majo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919?
Extent:

1 file (59 folios)

9. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/23
Title:
Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)
Scope & Content:
Military report compiled by Captain LS Fortescue of the General Staff of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force and printed in Calcutta at the Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1922. The volume begins with a statement defining the geographical area covered by the report. The report is div...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1922
Extent:

1 volume (301 folios)

10. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/30
Title:
REPORTS ON MINOR OPERATONS IN SOUTH PERSIA UNDER Brigadier-General Sir P. M. Sykes, K.C.I.E, C.M.G., from May to July 1918. GENERAL STAFF INDIA
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of reports on minor military operations in 'South Persia' contained in a despatch from the Inspector General, South Persia Rifles (Percy Molesworth Sykes) to the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, Simla. The reports recount operations against Labu Muhammadis, Cheh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:

1 volume (87 folios)