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Project / Collection India Office Records Name Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council, 1773-1947

1. IOR/F/4/160/2791

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/160/2791
Title:
Proceedings in consequence of the accidental killing of the Persian Ambassador Haji Kheleel Khan at Mazagaon. Examiners Office June 1804
Scope & Content:
This item consist of letters, extracts of letters, and a copy of dispatches between, principally, the Court of Directors of the East India Company and the Secret Committee of the Government of Bombay regarding the proceedings in consequence of the death of the Persian Ambassador, Haji Khali Khan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1802-18 Apr 1804
Extent:
1 item (37 folios)

2. IOR/F/4/186/3885

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/186/3885
Title:
State of affairs at Muscat in consequence of the Imaum's death And Depredations committed in the Persian Gulph by the Joasmee Pirates.
Scope & Content:
This item consists of extracts from political letters received by officials of the Government of Bombay, containing enclosures regarding the political situation at Muscat following the death of the Imaum, Syed Sultaun [Sayyid Sulṭān bin Aḥmad Āl Bū Sa‘īd, also written in the correspondence as Se...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Oct 1798-19 Feb 1805
Extent:
1 item (57 folios)

3. IOR/G/29/26

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/26
Title:
Sir John Malcolm's mission to Persia: copies of his letters and enclosures to the Governor-General, Fort William
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters and enclosures from Captain John Malcolm, British Envoy at Abusheher [Bushehr, various spellings appear in the volume] to the Earl of Mornington, Governor-General, Fort William (Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess, Wellesley, spelled Marquis in the volume). Letters were a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1799-31 Jul 1801
Extent:
1 volume (291 folios)

4. IOR/G/29/28

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/28
Title:
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letter of 2 Sep 1806: copies of correspondence of Samuel Manesty, Resident at Bushire, relating to his political proceedings in Persia
Scope & Content:
The volume consists mostly of correspondence, with enclosures, from Samuel Manesty, East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra], to Richard Colley Wellesley, Governor-General of India, Fort William. The letters concern Manesty's unauthorised diplomatic mission to the Court of the Shah of Persia ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1803-15 Sep 1806
Extent:
1 volume (287 folios)

5. IOR/G/29/32, ff 560-643

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/32, ff 560-643
Title:
Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Sir Harford Jones's Residency in Bagdad [Baghdad] and Diplomatic Mission to Persia [Iran]
Scope & Content:
Copies, extracts, and translations of correspondence between Sir Harford Jones and various British and Persian [Iranian] officials. The letters relate to Jones's diplomatic mission to Persia [Iran], 1807-1811, and his position as Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad]. Specific matters dealt with by the pa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1805-18 Sep 1810
Extent:
1 item (84 folios)

6. IOR/G/29/34

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/34
Title:
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letter, dated 17th September 1808
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of correspondence, memoranda, journal extracts, and intelligence reports relating to Brigadier-General John Malcolm’s 1808 mission to Persia [Iran] as East India Company Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. The papers are enclosures to a packet sent to the Secret...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 May 1808-17 Sep 1808
Extent:
1 volume (416 folios)

7. IOR/G/29/35

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/35
Title:
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letters of 21 December 1808, 20 January and 3 April 1809
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to affairs in Persia [Iran] and the Persian Gulph [Persian Gulf]. The principal correspondents are: Sir Harford Jones [later Jones-Brydges], Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Persia; Lord Minto [Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynyn...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Oct 1808-20 Mar 1809
Extent:
1 volume (304 folios)

8. IOR/G/29/36

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/36
Title:
Letters and Enclosures on Persia to the Secret Department, 1809-1810
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises a single packet addressed to the Secret Department, containing transcripts and supplementary duplicate copies of secret letters, excerpts of intelligence reports, itineraries, travel accounts, translated diplomatic letters, treaties, royal edicts or firmaun [farmān], and tra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Feb 1809-12 Mar 1810
Extent:
1 volume (362 folios)

9. IOR/G/29/38, ff 494-496

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/38, ff 494-496
Title:
Copy of a Minute by the Governor General dated 7th July 1819 - relative to the execution of the Killedar of Talneir
Scope & Content:
The item consists of a minute, dated 7 July 1819, by Governor-General of India, Warren Hastings. The minute discusses the conduct of General Sir Thomas Hislop, Commander-in-Chief at Fort St George, Madras [Chennai], who authorised the execution of the Killedar [Killidar] of Talneir [Thalner] foll...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jul 1819
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

10. IOR/L/MIL/5/768

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/768
Title:
PAPERS RELATING TO THE MESOPOTAMIAN COMMISSION from SIR E. BARROW'S ROOM
Scope & Content:
This file contains working drafts of confidential prints, correspondence and telegrams from the room of Sir Edmund Barrow, Military Secretary in the India Office, collected for the Mesopotamian Commission which was convened to examine the causes of the besieging and surrender of the Indian Exped...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1918
Extent:
1 file (687 folios)