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31. IOR/L/PS/18/C63

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C63
Title:
Boundary between Persia and North-West Baluchistan
Scope & Content:
Two documents exist within these folios, one of which was written by Hermann Anderson Haines, Assistant, Public Works Department, on 19 September 1893, and the next by Captain Frederick Weston Peile MacDonald on 15 August 1893. The first document by Haines explains the history leading up to the b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Aug 1893 - 19 Sep 1893
Extent:

9 folios

32. IOR/L/PS/18/C64

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C64
Title:
Persia. Note on the memorandum by Sir M Durand on the situation in Persia - HC 1274 of 1895 [L/PS/3/349].
Scope & Content:
This note on the memorandum produced by Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Minister Plenipotentiary to Tehran 1894-1900, was written by Sir William Lee-Warner and focuses on various issues relating to the current situation in Persia. These include: the issue of the Regie debt; concerns over the successi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1896
Extent:

2 folios

33. IOR/L/PS/18/C64a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C64a
Title:
Memorandum by Sir M Durand on the situation in Persia
Scope & Content:
This memorandum was created on the 27 September 1895 by Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Minister Plenipotentiary to Tehran, and printed for the use of the Foreign Office in December 1895. It outlines the current situation in Persia [Iran] and the steps which should be taken to improve the position of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1895
Extent:

21 folios

34. IOR/L/PS/18/C65

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C65
Title:
The History of Seistan and Lash-Jowain
Scope & Content:
This document was compiled and signed by H Le Poer Wynne (Foreign Department) and covers the history of Seistan and Lash-Jowain [Lāsh-e Juwayn], including the dispute over sovereignty which led to the Anglo-Persian War (1856-7). The document is divided into the following sections: 1. The histo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1870
Extent:

38 folios

35. IOR/L/PS/18/C66

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C66
Title:
Seistan arbitration case
Scope & Content:
This document was written by Sir Owen Tudor Burne on 19 November 1872, and is divided into the following sections: Section 1 - Brief abstract of Persia and Afghanistan History as connected with Seistan [Sīstān], including our policy in reference to the district Section 2 - Geographical and Pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Nov 1872
Extent:

6 folios

36. IOR/L/PS/18/C67

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C67
Title:
Seistan and Mekran arbitration
Scope & Content:
This document opens by outlining the history of the boundaries between Persia and Seistan [Sīstān] and Persia and Mekran [Makran]. It goes on to discuss the involvement of the British with the dispute during the middle of the nineteenth century, and particularly focuses on the process of British...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1875
Extent:

5 folios

37. IOR/L/PS/18/C68

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C68
Title:
Memorandum by the Rev. G. P. Badger on the Pretensions of Persia in Beloochistan and Mekran, drawn up with especial reference to her Claim to Gwadur and Charbar
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a memorandum by George Percy Badger (scholar and missionary) concerning Persian claims in Beloochistan [Baluchistan] and Mekran [Makran], particularly Gwadel or Gwadur [Gwādar] and Charbar [Chābahār]. It contains the following: a history of Persian encroachments in Beloochi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1863
Extent:

1 file (10 folios)

38. IOR/L/PS/18/C76

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C76
Title:
'The Persian Mission Charges'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum concerns proposals for a more equitable distribution of the costs of the Persian Mission between the Imperial (i.e. British) and Indian Governments. It includes tables detailing the proposed breakdown of costs for each government. The author is Edmund Neel of the India Office, Pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1890
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

39. IOR/L/PS/18/C77

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C77
Title:
'Memo by Capt O St John R. E. on the Persian Frontier East of the Caspian of 15 May 1874'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum — dated 15 May 1874 — describes the Persian frontier east of the Caspian Sea; this includes the upper valley of the River Atrak [Atrek], the districts of Derehgaz [Dargaz], and Kalet-i-Nadiri [Kalāt-e Nāderī]. The author is Captain Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St John, and the memora...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 June 1873-15 May 1874
Extent:

1 file (22 folios)

40. IOR/L/PS/18/C78

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C78
Title:
'The Russians in Akhal'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is divided into four parts. The first part (folios 26-41) outlines Russian activities and aims in the Trans-Caspian region from 1716-1880; it narrates the extension of Russian influence over the Turcoman [Turkmen] tribes in the region to their eventual absorption into the Russian ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1882
Extent:

1 file (34 folios)