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1. IOR/L/PS/20/C2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C2
Title:
TREATY OF PEACE WITH PERSIA 1857
Scope & Content:
A copy of the Treaty of Paris (1857) concluded between Britain and Persia [Iran] following the Anglo-Persian War (1856-57). The treaty is signed by Earl Cowley, British Ambassador to France, and Ferookh Khan Ameen Oolmoolk [Farrukh Khān Ghaffārī Kāshānī], Persian Plenipotentiary, and is dated Pa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
Dec 1855-2 May 1857
Extent:

1 volume (32 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/20/C30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C30
Title:
'Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia, as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information'
Scope & Content:
The volume is Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia, as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1874
Extent:

1 volume (111 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/20/C43

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C43
Title:
'Persia and the Persian Question by the Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon, M.P.'
Scope & Content:
George Nathaniel Curzon, Persia and the Persian Question (London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1892).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1892
Extent:
2 volumes (720 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/20/C57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C57
Title:
'Oman. Map of and Reports on by Major Ross'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of the following: memorandum on tribal divisions in the Principality of Oman to accompany table of tribes, by Major Edward Charles Ross, Political Agent at Muscat (folios 2-3); table entitled 'Principal Tribes of Oman', signed by Ross (folio 4). The table is divided between t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1872
Extent:

1 volume (7 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/20/C74

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C74
Title:
PERSIAN GULF AND GULF OF OMAN. RESOURCES AND COAST DEFENCES.
Scope & Content:
Printed report published by the Intelligence Department of the Admiralty, 1903. The report includes advice on collecting information on defences such as defended areas, minefields, ordnance, under-water defences. Much of the information was extracted from the Persian Gulf Report, 1898. There a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903
Extent:
56 folios

6. IOR/L/PS/20/C91/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C91/1
Title:
Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915
Scope & Content:
Theses two volumes make up Volume I, Part IA and Part IB (Historical) (pages i-778 and 779-1624) of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915), compiled by John Gordon Lorimer and completed for press by Captain L Birdwood. Part 1A contains an 'Introd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

2 volumes (1624 pages)

7. IOR/L/PS/20/C91/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C91/2
Title:
Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part II. J G Lorimer. 1915
Scope & Content:
This volume is Volume I, Part II (Historical) of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915), compiled by John Gordon Lorimer and completed for press by Captain L Birdwood. Part II contains an 'Introduction' (pages i-iii) written by Birdwood in Simla,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 volume (1165 pages)

8. IOR/L/PS/20/C91/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C91/3
Title:
Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol. I. Geneaological Tables-Maps. Part III. J G Lorimer. 1915
Scope & Content:
This volume is Part III of Volume 1 of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915) compiled John Gordon Lorimer. The contents are divided into two sections and contain genealogical tables of Persian Gulf and Arabian ruling families, and one map, housed...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 volume, 22 items (45 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/20/C91/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C91/4
Title:
'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol. II. Geographical and Statistical. J G Lorimer. 1908'
Scope & Content:
This volume is Volume II of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1908) compiled by John Gordon Lorimer. The volume is a geographical dictionary with a series of alphabetically arranged articles relating to the physical and political conditions of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1908
Extent:

1 volume (1952 pages)

10. IOR/L/PS/20/C91/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C91/6
Title:
‘Map of the Persian Gulf, ’Omān and Central Arabia compiled in the Foreign Office, Simla, by Lieut. F.F. Hunter, I.A. Survey of India, in Consultation with J.G. Lorimer, I.C.S., & Capt. M. O’C. Tandy, R.E., for “The Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman & Central Arabia” 1905-06-07-08’
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Heliozincographed at the Office of the Trigonometrical Branch, Survey of India, Dehra Dún. Outline and hill shading by Munshi Karim Bakhsh. Typing by Munshis [sic] Karim Bakhsh and Tufail Ahmad Khán. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Map of the Persi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1908
Extent:
1 map in slip case