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

1. IOR/L/PS/10/113

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/113
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 4 'Arms Traffic: Persian Gulf - Blockade (correspondence 1909-1911).'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence regarding the decision by British authorities to establish a naval blockade along the Mekran coast in 1909, with the aim of suppressing arms trafficking in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence discusses the cost of a naval blockade, the availability of naval ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1909-1 Dec 1911
Extent:
1 volume (378 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/114

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/114
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 5 'Arms Traffic:- Persian Gulf - Blockade (correspondence 1912-1920).'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the ongoing naval blockade in the Persian Gulf to suppress arms trafficking. The blockade continued through 1912 and 1913 before being ended in 1914. The volume also includes correspondence between representatives of the India Office, the Admiralty, and the Government of In...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1912-15 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 volume (301 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/115

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/115
Title:
File 619/1907 Pts 6-9 'Arms traffic:- Trucial Chief's. Debai Incident. French Dhows. Military Operations.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises parts 6, 7, 8 and 9 of subject 619 Arms Traffic. The parts discuss actions taken in the Persian Gulf to suppress the illegal movement of arms and ammunition: Part 6: Searching of vessels in territorial waters of Trucial Chiefs; Position of Katr [Qatar]; Part 7: Debai [Dubai]...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Sep 1910-15 Apr 1913
Extent:
1 volume (294 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/116

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/116
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 10 'Arms traffic:- Persian Gulf. Prize Money for captures in Persian Gulf.'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses the award of prize money to the officers and crews of British Naval vessels that had seized dhows containing arms and ammunition in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence discusses the values to be assigned to different types of arms and ammunition, and the decision b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1908-24 Sep 1915
Extent:
1 volume (210 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/456

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/456
Title:
File 2830/1914 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Sponge Fisheries. Sponge Exploration Syndicate.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the attempts of a British company called the Sponge Exploration Syndicate to obtain concessions for the fishing and exploitation of sponges in the Persian Gulf. However, the papers indicate that it was felt by British officials that the real object of the company was to explo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 May 1905-11 Dec 1916
Extent:
1 volume (240 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/660

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/660
Title:
File 815/1917 Pt 2 'Persian Gulf: Lighting & Buoying. General Expenditure.'
Scope & Content:
This volume is composed of interdepartmental correspondence relating to the future administration of the lighting and buoying service in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence notes that since 1911 the cost of the service, which is carried out by the Royal Indian Marine, has been shared between ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jan 1921-7 Jan 1925
Extent:
1 volume (329 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/662

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/662
Title:
File 815/1917 Pt 10 'Persian Gulf:- Lighting & Buoying Service. Operation by Board of Control. Govt. of India's contribution to the Lighting Fund.'
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to arrangements for the financing of the Persian Gulf lighting and buoying service. Matters covered in the correspondence include the following: Details of a new scheme for funding the service, which is to consist of shipping dues levied on behalf of the Government of India b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1925-5 Dec 1932
Extent:

1 volume (434 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/664

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/664
Title:
File 815/1917 Pt 13 'Persian Gulf: lighting and buoying service; Shatt al-Arab Conservancy Board'
Scope & Content:
This volume is composed of interdepartmental correspondence relating to the future administration of the lighting and buoying service in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence discusses the possibility of control of buoying and lighting in the Persian Gulf being transferred to the Government of P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15 Jun 1928-9 Dec 1931
Extent:
1 volume (338 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/675

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/675
Title:
File 1355/1917 Pt 6 'Arms Traffic Convention: revised convention, 1925'
Scope & Content:
The papers in this volume relate to the revised international Arms Traffic Convention (1925). The papers include: The right to supply munitions to the governments of Afghanistan, Nepal and Tibet should they fall within the ‘prohibited zone’, 11 December 1924; the preference for including all co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Feb 1925-29 Apr 1926
Extent:

1 volume (609 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/1095

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1095
Title:
File 4011/1923 Pt 2 'PERSIAN GULF: NEGOTIATIONS 1928 HENJAM'
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to British policy regarding the Gulf island of Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], occupied in part, on and off, by the British since the late nineteenth century. Interdepartmental correspondence refers to the establishment of a British telegraph station on the island in 1868, follo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
6 Jul 1926-25 Jan 1934
Extent:
1 volume (962 folios)