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Project / Collection India Office Records Name Indian Political Service, External Affairs Department, 1937-1947

1. IOR/L/PS/12/75

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/75
Title:
PZ 3941/33 'Reforms: position of Aden, British Baluchistan, NWFP [North-West Frontier Province] and Department of External Affairs'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding proposed reforms to the administration of India, particularly in relation to Aden, British Baluchistan, the North-West Frontier Province and the Department of External Affairs. The file includes a draft of a White Paper detailing the proposed reforms (ff 12-32),...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1933-24 Feb 1933
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/236

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/236
Title:
PZ 5708/37 'Claim for compensation in respect of losses sustained in the Great War: Mrs Aga Faruksha'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence concerning a compensation claim for the murder of Aga Farrukh Shah (also spelt Agha Farrukhshah) at Kerman during the First World War. Aga Farrukh Shah was supposedly working in the interest of the British Government at the time of his death, and the first cla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jul 1937-4 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/237

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/237
Title:
PZ 6384/37 'Statement of MEMORIALS withheld by the Govt of India'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence and statements concerning memorial petitions relating to subjects dealt with in the Government of India, External Affairs Department, and addressed to His Majesty the King Emperor or His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, which were withheld by the Govern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Sep 1937-4 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (29 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/239

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/239
Title:
PZ 6755/37 'Consular: Funds held by H.M. Consular Officers on behalf of the Government of India'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence regarding a proposal for the certification of cash balances held by HM Consular Officers on behalf of the Government of India. This covers scenarios where consular officers obtained funds directly from the Government of India in advance of expenditure to be in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Oct 1937-13 Dec 1938
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/260

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/260
Title:
PZ 6253/1938 'Shipwreck of a party of Muscat Arabs - Qn. of recovery of expenses incurred by Govt. of Italian Somaliland'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning: the shipwreck on the coast of Italian Somaliland, on 20 March 1938, of a group of Muscat Arabs on board the dhow [sailing vessel] ‘Galib’, bound for Zanzibar and the Tanganyika Territory; and the reimbursement of the expenses incurred by the Governmen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Sep 1938-17 May 1941
Extent:
1 file (54 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/263

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/263
Title:
PZ 7184/38 'Iran: Gift of a set of meteorological instruments to the Iranian Govt.'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence regarding the gift of a set of meteorological instruments to the Iranian Government from the Government of India. Correspondents include: the Indian Political Service, External Affairs Department; and the Government of India, Department of Communications. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Oct 1938-11 Feb 1939
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/267

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/267
Title:
PZ 7971/1938 'Portugal - Exhibition in 1939-40. Portugal desires to borrow from Muscat certain exhibits.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the celebrations to be held in Portugal in 1939 and 1940 of the eighth centenary of the foundation of the Portuguese Nation and the third centenary of the re-establishment of Portuguese independence. It mainly consists of copies sent to the India Of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Dec 1938-15 Dec 1939
Extent:
1 file (53 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/296

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/296
Title:
PZ 4501/1939 'Diplomatic & Consular Expenditure: Statements showing expenditure incurred by the Govmt. of India on D. & C. services in Iran & Kuwait during 1936/37.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and papers concerning expenditure on diplomatic and consular services in Iran and the Persian Gulf from 1936 to 1940. It includes correspondence between the India Office and the following: the Foreign Office; the Treasury; the Government of India, External Affa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jul 1939-23 Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (117 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/297

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/297
Title:
PZ 4592/39 'Sardar Haider Quli Khan: application for increased pension'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to a request to increase the pension paid to Sardar Haider Quli Khan by the Government of India. In 1939, the HBM Consul in Kermanshah, John Francis Robert Vaughan Russell, forwarded a letter from Khan to the Accountant General, Central Revenues (Sidney ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1939-28 Sep 1939
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/299

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/299
Title:
PZ 5098/39 'Position of Major G S de Gaury vis-á-vis military service in the event of war'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to Major Gerald Simpson Hillairet Rutland Vere de Gaury, the Political Agent in Kuwait, and the possibility that he will be called up for military service. Letters between de Gaury; Roland Tennyson Peel (Secretary for the Political Department in the Indi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Aug 1939-8 Sep 1939
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)