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2031. IOR/L/PS/10/1239/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1239/2
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 8 'Iraq-Nejd Situation: Press Reports. Parliamentary Question.'
Scope & Content:
The part consists of press reports and notices of Parliamentary questions, concerning the situation on the frontier between Iraq, Kuwait, and Transjordan, and the Kingdom of Hejaz [al-Ḥijāz], Nejd, and Dependencies, particularly in terms of raids by Akhwan [Ikhwan] tribesmen (also referred to as...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Feb-26 Apr 1928
Extent:
1 item (75 folios)

2032. IOR/L/PS/10/29/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/29/2
Title:
File 791/1904 Pt 5 'The Ottoman Order-in-Council, 1910'
Scope & Content:
Part 5 concerns the Ottoman Order in Council 1910, and the applicability of the Ottoman Order in Council, 1899, and the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, to Yemen and the other Turkish possessions in Arabia. It contains: a 1909 draft Ottoman Order in Council (folios 53-93); the Ottoman Order in Co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jun 1906-15 Aug 1911
Extent:
1 item (101 folios)

2033. IOR/L/PS/10/455/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/455/2
Title:
File 2696/1914 Pt 2 'Persia New Anglo-Russian agreement'
Scope & Content:
Part 2 relates to discussion between the Government of India, the India Office, and the Foreign Office regarding the possible revision of the Anglo-Russian Agreement [the Anglo-Russian Entente of 1907]. Included is a memorandum, dated August 1915 and produced by the India Office's Political De...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Mar 1915-4 Dec 1917
Extent:
1 item (60 folios)

2034. IOR/L/PS/10/41/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/41/1
Title:
File 1552/1904 Pt 2 ‘Mohammerah: Karun navigation’
Scope & Content:
This part is concerned with the Persian Transport Company, the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company, and their managing agents Messrs Lynch. In particular, it relates to the provision of a subsidy by the Foreign Office to the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company for its steamer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Oct 1906-28 Jun 1915
Extent:

1 item (342 folios)

2035. IOR/L/PS/10/577/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/577/2
Title:
File 4612/1915 Pt 2 'Persia: personal claims of Farman Farma upon HMG; proposed payment of a lump sum'
Scope & Content:
This part contains telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes concerning the personal claims of the Governor of Fars, Farman Farma [ʿAbd-al-Ḥosayn Mīrzā Farmānfarmā] upon HM Government and the proposed payment of a lump sum.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Feb 1918-22 Oct 1919
Extent:
1 item (64 folios)

2036. IOR/L/PS/10/991, f 434

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/991, f 434
Title:
'Rough sketch of 'Iraq and Persian Gulf showing the three straight lines on which in the opinion of Major Holmes, oil exists'
Scope & Content:
The map accompanies a report by the Political Agent, Muscat (Harold Dickson) of a conversation with Major Frank Holmes of Eastern and General Syndicate. The map shows the Persian Gulf and some of Iraq with three parallel lines (red, black and blue) on which oil is to be found according to Holmes....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1931
Extent:
1 map

2037. IOR/L/PS/10/31/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/31/1
Title:
File 868/1904 Pt 3 'Consular: Persia; powers of Persian Consul-General, Calcutta to appoint Vice-Consuls'
Scope & Content:
Part 3 contains notes and correspondence between the India Office and the Foreign Office regarding the powers of the Persian Consul General at Calcutta in regard to the appointment of Vice-Consuls; and correspondence on the appointment of Mirza Ali Akbar Khan, Barrister at Law, as Vice Consul and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Mar 1906-21 Sep 1906
Extent:
1 item (23 folios)

2038. IOR/L/PS/10/131/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/131/2
Title:
File 266/1908 Pt 3 ‘Diplomatic + Consular Expenditure. (Consular Buildings)’
Scope & Content:
This part contains correspondence relating to expenditure on consular buildings, mostly in Persia [Iran], and the division of the cost between the Imperial and Indian Exchequers. It includes correspondence regarding: the proposal that the house and grounds of the Kermanshah Consulate should be...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Oct 1909-9 May 1916
Extent:

1 item (48 folios)

2039. IOR/L/PS/10/856/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/856/1
Title:
File 5015/1919 Pt 1 'Persia: Appointment of Financial Adviser'
Scope & Content:
This item comprises: deciphered telegrams; correspondence; India Office Political Department registry forms with subject and notes; and covering letters of the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India. The primary correspondents are Sir Percy Cox [Ac...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Aug 1919-30 Apr 1920
Extent:
1 item (47 folios)

2040. IOR/L/PS/10/925/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/925/1
Title:
File 6499/1920 Pt 1 'KOWEIT AFFAIRS: KOWEIT-NEJD BOUNDARY DISPUTE; LOCAL UNPOPULARITY OF SHEIKH'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern the Kuwait-Nejd boundary dispute. Correspondence discusses the arbitration of the British Government in the matter of the border of Kuwaiti territory under the Shaikh of Kuwait [Shaikh Sālim bin Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ] with that of the Ruler of Nejd [Najd], Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 May 1920-28 Jul 1921
Extent:
1 item (144 folios)