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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/10 Name Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council, 1773-1947 Place Persia, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/10/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/8
Title:
File 2410/1903 Pt 1 'Persia:- Financial Situation. Loans.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to a loan made to the Persian Government in April 1903, and further advances made during 1904 and 1905. The discussion in the volume relates to the terms of the loan agreements including possible concessi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Apr 1903-17 Jan 1906
Extent:
1 volume (526 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/133
Title:
File 345/1908 Pt 2 'Mohammerah: situation. Sheikh's dispute with the Vali of Basra. decoration for Sheikh. renewed assurances to Sheikh.'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence including telegrams, hand written letters and printed enclosures, discusses an attack by a Turkish gun-boat on a village - Zain, belonging to the Shaikh of Mohammerah - which lay on the Turkish bank of the Shatt al-Arab waterway. The correspondence outlines the circumstances that ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910-1915
Extent:
1 volume (281 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/266

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/266
Title:
File 1356/1912 Pt 1 'Turco-Persian Frontier:- negotiations at Constantinople.'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the disputed Turco-Persian Frontier, particularly at Mohammerah, and the negotiations in Constantinople to attempt to settle it. The correspondence focuses on: the differences of opinion over the actual boundary at Mohammerah, including several maps demonstrating these diff...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Feb 1912-25 Sep 1912
Extent:
1 volume (436 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/298

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/298
Title:
File 3632/1912 ‘Telegraphs – Wireless in Persia’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and notes by British government officials about the Italian Government’s support for proposals by the British company Marconi, initially in association with the German company Telefunken, to establish a network of wireless (radio) telegraph stations in Persia. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Mar 1912-27 Jul 1915
Extent:
1 volume (316 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/336

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/336
Title:
File 364/1913 'Persia: situation in Fars (attack on 39th Central India Horse)'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, and reports relating to an attack by Bakhtiari tribesmen on a party of the 39th Central India Horse regiment and the killing of a British officer. The discussion in the volume relates to the implications for the Britis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1913
Extent:
1 volume (259 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/405

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/405
Title:
File 3294/1913 Pt 1-2 'Turco-Persian Frontier Commission - Expenditure - Case of Mr Hubbard'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject ‘Turco-Persian Frontier Commission Expenditure'. Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/405/1) concerns the appointment, composition, financial arrangements of the Turco-Persian Frontier Commission. Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/405/2) concerns the compensation for Mr G E Hub...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1913-1920
Extent:
1 volume (450 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/455

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/455
Title:
File 2696/1914 Pt 1-2 'Anglo-Russian Agreement'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject 'Anglo-Russian Agreement'. The volume concerns proposed changes to the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, following a completed draft convention between Britain, China, and Tibet (completed in April 1914, but not signed by the Chinese Government)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1914-15 Jun 1918
Extent:
1 volume (230 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/481

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/481
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 4 'German War: Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns events that happened in Persia and in the Eastern territories of the Ottoman Empire (Iraq), during the First World War. The main focus is the Turkish action in Persia, and the British intrigues to maintain control over Persia, preventing the country from entering the war and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, German, and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
27 Jan 1915-13 May 1915
Extent:
1 volume (333 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/482

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/482
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 5 'German War: Persia; situation in Arabistan 1915'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns events that happened in southern Persia and in the territories of the Shatt al-Arab, during the First World War. The main focus is the protection of oilfields. The volume covers: The Arab movement in Mesopotamia. Possible despatch of troops to the Kārun river and to Ahwaz [A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Jan 1915-26 Jul 1916
Extent:
1 volume (196 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/483

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/483
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 6 'German War: Persia; general situation May-July 1915'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns events that happened in Persia and Balochistan, during the First World War. The main focus is measures to be taken in the event of Persia entering the War against Great Britain. The volume covers: Advice of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf on measures to be taken i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1915-16 Jul 1915
Extent:
1 volume (237 folios)