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1. IOR/L/PS/20/244

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/244
Title:
Who's who in Afghanistan Simla: General Staff India, 9th edn, 1930
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930
Extent:
ix, 258pp genealogical tables

2. IOR/L/PS/20/245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/245
Title:
Who's who in Afghanistan, 1930. Amendment list no 2 (May 1933) [Delhi: General Staff India, 1933]
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933
Extent:
80pp

3. IOR/L/PS/20/231

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/231
Title:
Who's Who In Persia (Calcutta: General Staff, India, First Edition (reprinted), confidential)
Scope & Content:
Contains genealogical tables
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:

1 volume

4. IOR/L/PS/20/218

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/218
Title:
Who's who [and place names] in Mesopotamia. [Issued by the Intelligence Branch, Indian Expeditionary Force "D"] Simla: General Staff India, 1915
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
420, 9pp

5. IOR/L/PS/20/58

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/58
Title:
'Who's who in Aden and Western Arabia Calcutta: General Staff India, 1916
Scope & Content:
The Who's Who in Aden and Western Arabia comprises a biographical dictionary of individuals connected with the fall of the Sultanate of Lahej [Laḩij] to Ottoman forces in July 1915. Most of the individuals are key members of the Subaihi tribe; a breakdown of the sections of the tribe is given o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:

1 volume (65 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/20/231B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/231B
Title:
'WHO'S WHO IN PERSIA'
Scope & Content:
The volume is entitled ‘Who’s Who in Persia’, and is a British intelligence report, compiled in 1916 by the General Staff of the British Indian Army and subsequently reprinted with corrections in 1918. The report was printed by Superintendent Government Printing, India, based in Calcutta [Kolkat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918-1927
Extent:

1 volume (145 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/20/275

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/275
Title:
Who's Who in Persia (Volume I) Khorasan, Sistan & the Kainat
Scope & Content:
The first edition of Who's Who in Persia (Volume I) Khorasan, Sistan & the Kainat, compiled by General Staff, India, comprises a biographical dictionary of individuals connected with those regions in 1923. It also includes two genealogical trees outlining the pedigree of: the Chiefs of Tun ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923
Extent:

1 volume (34 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/20/223

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/223
Title:
Who's who in Persia. Calcutta: General Staff, India, 1916
Scope & Content:
The volume contains brief biographical statements on individuals active in Persia [Iran], often including comments on their character, reputation, political affiliations, language skills, and attitudes towards European and regional powers. It also contains a number of genealogical tables, and in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1923
Extent:

1 volume (254 folios)