Confidential printed abstracts of letters received by the India Office from the Government of India, and from senior officials in certain areas outside India, during the year 1872. The letters are dated December 1871-December 1872. The abstracts each have one of the following titles: Abstracts ...
Extracts from the Diary of HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock
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Extracts from the diary of HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, for the period 13-22 June 1826. This document details Willock’s conversations with the Shah of Persia [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār] and the following Persian ministers: The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Meerza Abul Hassan ...
Part 2 of the volume is comprised of copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the proposed merger of the Turkish-Government-operated Hamidieh Steamship Company and the British company, the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company (also referred to as the Lynch Company, ETSNC). ...
File 4535/1928 Pt 14 ‘Persian Gulf: Political Control: 1. Telegraphic Communication between British Authorities in the Persian Gulf. 2. Conditions under which Pol. Rs. P. Gulf may communicate with A.O.C. Iraq.’
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This part contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to communications between British authorities in the Persian Gulf. The papers mainly concern the following: the sharing of telegraphic communications between the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf, the Political Resident at Bushi...
PZ 6642/35 Supply of certain War Office and Survey of India maps to the government of Iraq for reprinting in Arabic
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The file consists of correspondence regarding the supply of certain War Office and Survey of India maps to the Government of Iraq for reprinting in Arabic. It includes a list of maps to be reprinted. The main correspondents include: the Iraqi Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Bagdad [Baghdad]; the ...
Coll 6/91(2) 'Saudi Arabia: Policy of H.M.G. Assistance to King Ibn Saud (British Military Mission to Saudi Arabia)'
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This file concerns arrangements for a military mission to Saudi Arabia, financed by the British Government. The file consists of correspondence between War Office, Foreign Office, India Office, and Government of India officials regarding the War Office's proposal for a proportion of Sunni Moslem...
Coll 25/31 'Orders in Council: Defence Regulations (Persian Gulf) Order in Council: Application to the Arab States of the Persian Gulf of draft Trading with the Enemy Bill'
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Copies of legislation passed during the Second World War and relating to the Persian Gulf. Numerous incarnations, in the form of amendments, of the following orders are included in the file: Trading with the Enemy Act, 1939 Trading with the Enemy (Specified Persons) Trading with the Enemy (Custo...
Coll 29/69 'Bahrain: appointment of an Assistant Political Agent'
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The file concerns recruitment of Assistant Political Agents at the Bahrain Political Agency, and conferment of Magisterial and Judicial powers. The file covers: creation of a new post of Assistant Political Agent, due to the increase of work for the development of oil fields, 1933 appointment o...
Coll 6/10 'Hejaz-Nejd Affairs: Financial Situation and Internal Situation'
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This volume largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, which have been forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India. The correspondence, most of which is between Foreign Office officials and either the British Minister ...
The item mainly relates to affairs in the Persian Gulf. It chiefly comprises copies of despatches of Captain Samuel Hennell, Political Resident, Persian Gulf, to John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay [Mumbai], with relevant enclosures, such as letters to and from Hennell, ...
